Family Nurse Practitioners: Roles, Issues, and Theory Implementation

Family nurse
practice
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Family nurse practitioners
• Family nurse practitioners (FNP) are
advanced registered nurses who work in
collaboration or autonomously with different
healthcare professionals for delivering
family-focused care.
• They offer a plethora of care services that
are centred around family units
• They play an important role in disease
prevention and health promotion, and also
offer counselling and direct care across the
lifespan of patients

Nursing theory
• Theory of Comfort has been postulated by Kolcaba in
1990s (Krinsky, Murillo & Johnson, 2014).
• It is a middle-range theory that is can be applied to the
domains of education, health practice, and research.
• It holds the potential of placing comfort as an essential
prerequisite of healthcare
• It considers comfort as an immediate outcome of health
and social care.