UK (United Kingdom) and Ireland Chapter (2017)
Co-Leaders: Veronica Swallow and Veronica Lambert
Website: https://ifnaukandireland.org
Twitter handle: @IFNAUKIreland
The UK and Ireland Family Nursing Group constitute a unique national forum with responsibility for the promotion of family nursing and healthcare in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Purpose:
To promote, support, and transform family health in the UK and Ireland by:
- Serving as a unifying force and voice for family nursing in the fields of Adult, Child, Intellectual Disability, Mental Health, and Midwifery
- Generating and sharing knowledge, practices, and skills to enhance and nurture family nursing practice
- Providing family nursing leadership through education, research, scholarship, socialization, and collegial exchange on all aspects of family nursing
- Influencing policymakers and commissioning processes to promote family health in all levels of decision making
- Showcasing current work on family nursing in the UK and Ireland and presenting it to a national and international audience
The group will:
- Be relevant and open to people of all ages, genders, religious beliefs and ethnic origins
- Focus on the importance of health and illness for families as a means of improving health for all
- Acknowledge family structures as defined by the families themselves
- Concentrate initially on family nursing but will later extend to other multidisciplinary groups to enhance the evidence base for family health and social care in the UK and Ireland
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