title: Skeletons in the closet: exploring personal family background as a prerequisite for family nursing.
abstract: A nurse's family background, values and experiences will either positively or negatively affect the kind of care he or she gives. This depends on whether the nurse either has explored his/her background and uses it as a valuable resource or fails to see that it may affect care or even be a restriction to quality care. An individual can take specific steps to use family background as a potent and valuable resource. This paper describes a collection of self-directed and group exercises developed at the University of British Columbia School of Nursing that can be used to explore family background and hence use it more positively.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D010375:Pedigree; D010553:Personality Development; D011788:Quality of Life; D012931:Social Environment