Teaching the practice skills offamily nursing is a challenge. Very little has been written about educational strategies that invite students to reflect on their own personal family experiences to enhance their awareness of the impact of these life experiences on their nursing care offamilies. This article describes the use of art as a teaching and learning strategy that facilitates interactional thinking infamily systems nursing.
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