Ana Canga Armayor, PhD, MSc, RN, is an Associate Professor of Older People Nursing and Family Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing and Deputy Director of the Department Nursing Care for the Adult Person at the University of Navarra, Spain. She is also an investigator with the Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA). Her research focuses on understanding and intervening with families experiencing a chronic illness. She conducts research with families caring for a dependent elderly family member as well as families living with Alzheimer’s disease. She and her colleagues are currently examining the effectiveness of a Family Systems Nursing educational intervention guided by the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models with practicing nurses who support families caring for a family member experiencing chronic illness. This research will help advance knowledge translation of family nursing theory to practice settings in Spain. For more information contact IFNA member, Ana Canga Armayor.
