The "How to" Family Nursing Series

Developed and Demonstrated by:
Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD and Maureen Leahey, RN, PhD
Produced by: FamilyNursingResources.com

This series presents live clinical scenarios that demonstrate how to do family nursing in actual practice. Interviews include a family with young children, middle-aged families and later life families. The health problems and health care settings are varied, as are the ethnic and racial groups. Intended for practicing nurses, educators, undergraduate and graduate nursing students, these programs will assist nurses to more effectively involve families in healthcare.

These actual demonstrations are a perfect accompaniment to Wright and Leahey’s highly acclaimed award winning text, Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention. Further programs in this series are forthcoming.

#5 How to Use Questions in Family Interviewing
(length 26:45 min) - click for sample streaming video
Increase your interviewing skills by using questions that are effective and time-efficient! Wright and Leahey demonstrate how to use questions that engage all family members and focus the meeting, assess the impact of the illness/problem on the family, elicit family coping strategies/strengths, intervene and invite change, and request family feedback.

#1: How to Do a 15 Minute (or Less) Family Interview
(length 23:18) - click for sample streaming video
Featuring real-life clinical scenarios, Wright and Leahey demonstrate key family nursing skills such as how to use manners to engage families in a short period; how to start therapeutic conversations with families; and how to routinely ask key therapeutic questions of families.

#2: Calgary Family Assessment Model: How to Apply in Clinical Practice
(length 26:47) - click for sample streaming video
The co-developers of the model, Drs. Lorraine M. Wright and Maureen Leahey demonstrate the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) in clinical practice. Highlighting the structural, developmental, and functional categories of CFAM in clinical interviews, they present examples of specific questions the nurse can ask the family, illustrate the helpfulness of the genogram and ecomap, and demonstrate how to construct circular interactional diagrams in clinical settings.

#3: Family Nursing Interviewing Skills: How to Engage, Assess, Intervene, and Terminate with Families
(length 22:32) - click for sample streaming video
Observe the four stages of a family nursing interview from engagement through termination. Wright and Leahey define and demonstrate key perceptual, conceptual, and executive skills; show how to apply these skills in family nursing clinical practice; offer sample questions for nurses to explore family concerns/solutions; and show key interventions to help families change.

#4: How to Intervene with Families with Health Concerns
(length 27:54) - click for sample streaming video
Focus on intervention and change! Wright and Leahey demonstrate interventions in three new clinical interviews: encouraging the telling of illness narratives, validating affect, drawing forth family strengths/support, encouraging respite, offering commendations, and offering information/opinions. These interventions focus on strengthening, promoting and/or sustaining effective family functioning in cognitive, emotional, and behavioral domains.

These DVDs have been translated into Japanese and are available at www.igakueizou.co.jp