Lindsay Smith, PhD, RN, is a Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia. Lindsay’s passion is to understand how family strengths can be applied in nursing care of children, young people, and families in the Australian context. He teaches child, family, and community nursing in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing degrees through translating Australian research findings into clinical guides and teaching strategies.
In March 2020, the Premier of Tasmania announced that the successful Tasmanian Child and Youth Wellbeing Framework, introduced as part of the Strong Families Safe Kids initiative, was to be adopted as a whole-of-government, all-of-service-system, and whole-of-community approach in developing Tasmania’s first Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy for 0-25-year-olds. Lindsay’s past work in this area of policy development has been published as an IFNA blog post: Supporting Translational Science for Strong and Healthy Families in Australia.
In March 2021, the Tasmania State Government called for responses to a discussion paper on the implementation of the Child & Youth Wellbeing Framework. Lindsay submitted a response to the Discussion Paper – Tasmania’s Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy that referenced the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) Position Statement on Advanced Practice Competencies for Family Nursing (2017). In his response, Lindsay calls for advanced family nursing practice to be embedded within current universal services such as Community Nursing and the School Health Nursing program.
Links to the website and Lindsay’s response paper:
- Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy for 0-25-year-olds: https://wellbeing.tas.gov.au/
- Discussion paper: https://wellbeing.tas.gov.au/discussion-paper
- Published responses (See Dr. Smith for my submission): https://wellbeing.tas.gov.au/formal-submissions
Lindsay has been nominated by the Premier’s Department to sit on the Child and Youth Wellbeing Community Consultative Committee for this initiative.
