Nurses are altering and modifying their usual patterns of clinical practice as they shift from caring for only the "individual patient" to seeing the "family as the patient" and increasingly including families in health care (Schober & Affara, 2001). The term Family Systems Nursing was first coined in the 1980s by Lorraine Wright and Maureen Leahey, two master clinicians and educators, to distinguish nursing interventions directed to the family unit. Their distinctions between family nursing and Family Systems Nursing were first presented as a coauthored plenary address at the First International Family Nursing Conference in Calgary in May 1988 and subsequently published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing in 1990.
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