Background: The theoretical framework of Partnership-Based Nursing Practice for People with COPD and their Families has been used in practice for two decades. The scientific literature and clinical experience called for a revision.

Objective: To revise the Partnership-Based Nursing Practice for People with COPD and their Families, highlighting its relevance in care for people at the advanced stage of the disease, accentuating collaboration with families, and updating the framework?s action-related components.

Method: A narrative revision was undertaken via the authors? reflections on clinical experience of their practice, a case report composition, and modification of the framework?s action-related components through a narrative literature review.

Results: In the revised framework the overarching dialogue includes not only patients, but families as well. The action-related component ?Assisting living with the disease? was added to underscore the significance of attempting to understand what may lie ahead for the patients and families. The other action-related components are: ?Assisting living with symptoms? and ?Facilitating access to healthcare?. The primary goal of the care is enhancing the ?Health experience?.

Conclusion: The nursing practice framework is grounded in a disciplinary perspective of nursing, the scientific literature and clinical experience. It highlights capacities and possibilities that lie in the nurse-patient relationship and continues to have the potential to inform nursing care for people with lung diseases and their families and to stimulate research endeavours.