Partnership with Families Across the Lifespan: Facilitating Family Nursing Workshop

Abstract

Australian and New Zealand nursing practice has a focus on partnership in health care. Family partnership develops through therapeutic family conversations, family assessment, engagement in decision making, understanding and promoting health literacy, and tailoring care. Partnering with complex and culturally diverse families, nurses facilitate client and family engagement creating a healthcare environment which facilitates family empowerment and decision making. Australian and New Zealand Family Nurses have developed innovative practice, tools and education approaches that facilitate client and family partnership in healthcare. Workshop participants will develop their family nursing skills that best meet client and family needs for partnership and engagement.