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Item Open Access Avoiding Isomorphism: A Call for a Different View(Sage Publications, 1995) Bell, Janice M.Item Open Access Grief—An Invitation to Inertia: A Narrative Approach to Working With Grief(Sage Publications, 1997) Moules, Nancy J.; Amundson, Jon K.Grief is a complex, compelling, and profound life experience that is a normal and healthy response to the death of a significant other. Personal experiences of grief, when juxtaposed against the cultural and health care discourses that see grief as a process that eventually results in a resolution characterized by the absence of grief feelings, can sponsor constraining and limiting experiences of life after loss. A narrative approach offers one way for nurses and other health care professionals to view grief and grief’s possible “problem” states. Narrative invites the bereaved into seeing and storying their experiences in a more accepting and facilitative fashion. This article outlines a narrative approach to a particular problem state found in grief. a problem state of inertia. Implications for family nursing are discussed.Item Open Access Illness Stories and Family Nursing(1997) Bell, Janice M.Item Open Access Stories of Suffering, Stories of Strength: Narrative Influences in Family Nursing(Sage Publications, 1997) Moules, Nancy J.Narrative approaches are influencing family nursing practice. Narrative ideas, theory, and practices are currently seen directly in the practices of some advanced nurse practitioners, and postmodern influences are seen in the relational stances that many nurses assume with families. In this article, the authors describe narrative theory and practice, the current influence of narrative ideas in family nursing, and the possibilities for families and nurses that are created.Item Open Access What Is “Family”? Perturbations and Possibilities(Sage Publications, 1995) Bell, Janice M.