Dr. Lorraine M. Wright and Dr. Janice M. Bell offered the first-ever International Family Nursing Conference live clinical demonstration of advanced family nursing practice to 30 workshop participants at the 12th International Family Nursing Conference in Odense, Denmark. For the Pre-Conference Workshop, lllness Suffering and Family Healing: Raising Your Clinical Effectiveness to the Next Level, a couple experiencing illness was recruited from a local outpatient heart failure clinic to participate in a therapeutic conversation guided by the Illness Beliefs Model. A blog post offers the clinicians’ reflections about the therapeutic conversation: “Because She Knows Me”: A Poignant Commendation For a Cardiac Family Nurse. For more information contact IFNA members, Lorraine M. Wright and Janice M. Bell.
Dr. Lorraine M. Wright and Dr. Janice M. Bell have been invited to offer their 4-day signature workshop called the “Family Nursing Externship” in May 17-20, 2016 at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. They plan to offer a live family interview during this workshop.
