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Journal of Family Nursing

Published in Association with Mary Ann Liebert

eISSN: 1552549X | ISSN: 10748407 | Current volume: 32 | Current issue: 1 Frequency: Quarterly

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.

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.

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


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.

Editor
Editorial Board
Dr. Kristofer Årestedt, RN, PhD Linköping University, Sweden
Dr. Jennifer Baumbusch, PhD, RN University of British Columbia, Canada
Catherine A. Chesla, RN, DNSc, FAAN University of California, San Francisco, USA
Dr. Janet Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Cristina García -Vivar, PhD, MSc, RN University of Navarra, Spain
Dr. Laura Gultekin, PhD, FNP-BC, RN University of Michigan,USA
Dr. Kiyoko Kamipebbu, PhD, RN, PHN, FAAN The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Kathleen A Knafl, PhD, FAAN University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Dr. Wendy Looman, PhD, RN, CNP University of Minnesota, USA
Dr. Helene Moriarty, PhD, RN, FAAN Villanova University College of Nursing, USA
Dr. Luke Russell, PhD, CFLE-P Illinois State University, USA
Dr. Susan Sullivan-Bolyai, DNSc, CNS, RN, FAAN UMass Medical School-Graduate School of Nursing, USA
Dr. Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, RN, PhD, FAAN University of Iceland, Iceland
Dr. Marcia Van Riper, RN, PhD, FAAN University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Dr. Chintana Wacharasin, RN, PhD Burapha University, Thailand
Dr. Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD University of Calgary, Canada
Editor Emeritus
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