Journal of Family Nursing
Your Best Resource for the latest Advances in Family Nursing, Theory, Practice, Research, and Education
The Journal of Family Nursing is a forum for lively debate and critical dialogue on the nursing of families in health and illness.
A Valuable Resource Whatever Your Specialty
Whether you're a researcher, practitioner, teacher, or student. . . whether you work directly with families or deal with families because you work with patients in such areas as pediatrics, gerontology, mental health, oncology or cardiology . . . you'll find the Journal of Family Nursing a vital and valuable resource.
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The Journal of Family Nursing is a peer-reviewed journal publishing nursing research, practice, education, and policy issues, as well as empirical and theoretical analyses on the subject of family health. The journal represents both "family as context" and "family as unit", examining cultural diversity and families across the life cycle. Interdisciplinary and collaborative perspectives are published from international contributors. The mission of the journal is to extend knowledge about family response to health and illness and improve healthcare offered to families.
Your Best Source for Family Nursing Information
The first periodical devoted exclusively to family nursing, the Journal of Family Nursing brings you the best in family nursing scholarship from a variety of perspectives. Articles in the Journal of Family Nursing examine such diverse topics as:
- Advances in family nursing education
- Families experiencing chronic illness
- Families experiencing life-shortening illness
- Families and health promotion
- Childbearing/childrearing families
- Family assessment and intervention
- Advances in practice
- Family care across the life span
- Legal and ethical issues
- Cross-cultural health issues
- Family nursing theory and policy
- Advances in research methodology and instrumentation
In addition, Journal of Family Nursing regularly features book and videotape reviews, as well as providing a place for you to communicate information and exchange ideas with others in the field through the Family Nursing Network. The Calendar section lists upcoming conferences and other events of particular interest to nurses who work with families.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The mission of the Journal of Family Nursing (JFN) is to extend knowledge about family response to health and illness and improve healthcare offered to families. JFN is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly work on nursing research, practice, education, and policy issues related to families in health and illness. Appropriate articles of empirical and theoretical analysis on the subject of family health will also be considered for publication. Both family-as-context and family-as-unit are represented. The journal recognizes a strong mandate to represent cultural diversity and families across the life cycle and encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative perspectives as well as international contributions. Papers will be selected for their scientific merit and creative treatment of significant issues in the field. One of the objectives of the journal is to establish a forum in which practitioners, educators, and researchers in various clinical specialties and settings can extend the lively debate and begin a more critical dialogue about the family in health and illness.
| Regena Spratling, PhD, RN, APRN, CPNP-PC, FAANP, FAAN | Georgia State University, USA |
| Kristofer Årestedt, RN, PhD | Linkoping University, Sweden |
| Jennifer Baumbusch, PhD, RN | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Catherine A. Chesla, RN, DNSc, FAAN | University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| Janet Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Cristina García -Vivar, PhD, MSc, RN | University of Navarra, Spain |
| Laura Gultekin, PhD, FNP-BC, RN | University of Michigan,USA |
| Kiyoko Kamipebbu, PhD, RN, PHN, FAAN | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Kathleen Knafl, PhD, FAAN | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Wendy Looman, PhD, RN, CNP | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Karen S. Lyons, PhD, FGSA | Boston College, USA |
| Helene Moriarty, PhD, RN, FAAN | Villanova University College of Nursing, USA |
| Luke Russell, PhD, CFLE-P | Illinois State University, USA |
| Susan Sullivan-Bolyai, DNSc, CNS, RN, FAAN | UMass Medical School-Graduate School of Nursing, USA |
| Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, RN, PhD, FAAN | University of Iceland, Iceland |
| Marcia Van Riper, RN, PhD, FAAN | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Chintana Wacharasin, RN, PhD | Burapha University, Thailand |
| Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD | 1995-2025 |
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