Iam especially honored to write the foreword for this fourth edition of Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice and Research. It seems odd to write the foreword for your own book, but as I near the end of my long nursing and academic career, it is a treasured time and opportunity to share my vision and commitment with my co-editors, the contributors of this edition, and future nurses. Merriam-Webster defines compendious to mean “concise and comprehensive.” Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice and Research (editions 1-4) is an ever changing compendious textbook originally developed to reflect the state of the art and science of family nursing. This all-inclusive, farreaching approach has continued throughout the history of this textbook. As the original title implied, the book represents an integration of theory, practice, and research pertaining to family nursing. With today’s vernacular, we could easily rename this textbook “Theory-Guided Evidence-Based Nursing Practice With Families.”