Donna Miles Curry, RN, PhD, PCNS-BC, is a nurse educator who created both the undergraduate and graduate family nursing courses for the College of Nursing & Health at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA. She served as a member of the IFNA Coordinating Committee which helped to create and charter the IFNA organization. She also served IFNA in the elected role of Treasurer for two terms from 2009-2015.
At the 10th International Family Nursing Conference in 2011 in Kyoto, Japan, she was an invited presenter about the development of family nursing in the undergraduate curriculum. At the 12th International Family Nursing Conference in 2015 in Odense, Denmark, Dr. Curry presented a paper on international student experiences with family nursing and the work of the family nursing team at Wright State focused on the use of the IFNA Position Statement on Pre-Licensure Family Nursing Education to evaluate an undergraduate nursing program. Dr. Curry led the IFNA Education Committee subcommittee to develop the IFNA Position Statement on Graduate Family Nursing Education. At the 13th International Family Nursing Conference in 2017 in Pamplona, Spain, she presented the paper, “IFNA Graduate Family Nursing Education Position Statement: A Report on Status and Development”.
Now retired from full-time academia, Dr. Curry teaches one section a year of the undergraduate or graduate family nursing course. Along with Dr. Bobbe Gray, she created the Wright State University Family Nursing Model which was implemented at Wright State University and presented in a paper at the 14th International Family Nursing Conference in Washington, D.C in 2019. She helped establish the International Family Nursing Foundation, a 501.C3 charity, and served on the Board of Directors as the secretary from 2018-2021.
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