Dr. Fabie Duhamel, Center of Excellence in Family Nursing, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to bring together Family Systems Nursing colleagues from 6 countries (Canada, Iceland, Japan, Sweden, Thailand, USA) to to create an International Family Systems Nursing Collaboration (IFSYNC) for research using knowledge translation (KT) science to examine the implementation of of family nursing to practice settings. This group first met in Montreal in October 2012; met in Minneapolis in June 2013 (adding two new countries to the research collaboration: Switzerland and Spain); met in Denmark in August 2015; and plan to meet in Spain in June 2017. Knowledge users have also participated in these planning meetings. Several research proposals have been submitted to various funding agencies to examine knowledge translation of family nursing to practice using the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (Wright & Leahey, 2013) and the Illness Beliefs Model (Wright & Bell, 2009). A KT research collaboration between Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand has already received funding. For more information about this project, contact IFNA member Fabie Duhamel: [email protected]
