Wilma Schroeder, MMFT, BN, RN, Course Leader – Family Nursing, Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is dedicated to making family nursing practice visible in her undergraduate teaching. She recently received approval from Red River College to post the Family Nursing Lab Manual she developed on the IFNA Education Resources page of the IFNA website. The “family nursing labs” are an important element of the undergraduate family nursing course that Wilma teaches. In addition to online tutorials and a face-to-face classes, more than half of the course is “family nursing labs” where both family nursing theory and family nursing application/skill development is emphasized.
Wilma has also produced a YouTube video called “How To Draw Genograms“ and participated in two IFNA YouTube videos on Family Nursing Education: Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 1 (teaching circular questions); Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 2 (using family stories; families as faculty in teaching health care professionals). All of these resources are also posted on the IFNA Education Resources page of the IFNA website. For more information, contact IFNA member Wilma Schroeder: [email protected]
