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The mission of the Association is to foster the individual and collective
development of nurses involved in the promotion of health care to families by providing a unique international forum of shared
responsibility for the advance of family nursing. The Association offers opportunities for leadership, socialization, and
collegial exchange related to all aspects of family nursing.
Specifically the Association aims to: - Promote the care of families in health and illness.
- Facilitate networking among family nurse researchers, educators
and practitioners.
- Provide mechanisms for dissemination of information regarding family nursing research, education and practice.
- Advance family nursing research and foster the utilization
of nursing research findings.
- Encourage
socialization and preparation of students for the roles of family nurse researcher, family nurse advanced practice and family
nurse educator.
- Promote the allocation
of resources available for family nursing development.
- Comprise a professional source
of evidence, information and advocacy in health policy, and health legislation to improve the care of families.
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Board of Directors Election Results
IFNA is please to announce the "first-ever" Board of Directors Election Results.
Your Board
of Directors are:
President
Marcia
Van Riper, PhD, RN (USA)
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
President-Elect
Sharon Denham, DSN, RN (USA)
Ohio University, School of Nursing
Secretary
Roberta S. Rehm, RN, PhD (USA)
University
of California San Francisco
Treasurer
Donna
Miles Curry, PhD, RN (USA)
Wright State University (USA)
Directors
(3-Year Term)
Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD (Canada)
University of Calgary
Catherine A. Chesla, RN, DNSc, FAAN (USA)
University of California San Francisco
Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, RN PhD (Iceland)
University of Iceland Faculty of Nursing
Directors (2-Year Term)
Suzanne Feetham, PhD, RN,
FAAN (USA)
University of WI Milwaukee and Children's National Medical Center
Naohiro
Hohashi, PhD, RN PHN (Japan)
Kobe University
Carole Robinson,
PhD, RN (Canada)
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
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