Left to right: Hanne Konradsen, Birte Ostergaard, Thyra Frank, Karin Dieperink, Anne Brødsgaard
On October 11, 2018, IFNA Board member Dr. Birte Østergaard, along with fellow IFNA members and board members from the Danish Family Nursing Association, Dr. Hanne Konradsen, Dr. Karin Dieperink, and Dr. Anne Brødsgaard met with the Danish Minister of the Elderly, Thyra Frank, to provide input about family nursing. During their half hour together, the minister and IFNA members discussed questions regarding how to strengthen family nursing for the elderly in Denmark. The minister was authentically interested in and highlighted the relevance of family nursing in the care of the elderly population. An agreement was made to remain in contact for further input and discussions on health planning, policy development, and contributions from family nursing to benefit the older adult population.
Kimberly Pyke-Grimm PhD, RN, CNS, is a Nurse Scientist and Clinical Nurse Specialist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, California, USA. Studying treatment decision making (TDM) in children, adolescents, and their families has been the center of her research for many years. Currently, her program of research examines adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer with a particular emphasis on TDM. Dr. Pyke-Grimm’s research also focuses on understanding the role of family and health care providers within the context of AYA treatment decision making. Supporting patient- and family-centered care and decision making through this very difficult time may help improve the chances for successful treatment in this vulnerable population. Her aim is to create developmentally appropriate interventions to support and empower AYA involvement in cancer TDM at whatever level they prefer. For more information contact IFNA member, Kimberly Pyke-Grimm.
Shelley Spurr, PhD, RN, is an associate professor at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She led the development of a program titled Caring for Kids Where They Live which is an interprofessional pediatric clinical learning environment that brings together students from the colleges of Nursing, Dentistry, Medicine, and Kinesiology in order to build capacity and improve the standard of care. The collaboration among health professionals and students within this Interprofessional clinical learning experience allows for effective pediatric care to be provided for children, adolescents, and their families where they live. The success of this program led to recognition by the Saskatchewan Registered Nursing Association for leadership in nursing practice.
Her teaching expertise includes pediatric and family nursing, and her pedagogy is founded in the application of the four pillars of client-and family-centered care including information sharing, collaboration, respect, and participation (Institute of Patient and Family-Centered Care, 2018), and the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (Wright and Leahey, 2013). The student experiences are developed to allow consistent interaction with families/family members who have had involvement with the health care system. The outcome is that new practitioners are fully immersed in the use and practice of client-and family-centered care, and the assessment and intervention with families. For more information contact IFNA member, Shelley Spurr.
Kathryn Hoehn Anderson, PhD, ARNP, PMH, PHMCNS-BS, LMFT, Professor, Georgia Southern University, USA, was a Founding Member of IFNA and served as the Director of the Center for Nursing Scholarship at Georgia Southern University.
News of Kathryn’s untimely death was received on October 27, 2018 and has been reverberating throughout the IFNA community. The IFNA listserv was chosen to serve as a “digital gathering place” to mourn Kathryn’s loss and remember her generous contributions to IFNA and to family nursing.
Tributes to Kathryn’s life and vision for family nursing have been pouring in from IFNA members and colleagues around the world. Please read:Kathryn Anderson Condolences from IFNA.Nov 9.
The IFNA Family Nursing Practice Committee has written a tribute to honor Kathyrn’s scholarly leadership in family nursing practice.
Anne L. Ersig, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the biological, psychological, and behavioral effects of stress from childhood chronic health conditions on individuals and their family members. Chronic health conditions in children affect the whole family as they integrate management of the condition into their daily routine, respond to crises, and face developmental challenges and condition-related health transitions. Dr. Ersig’s current research explores chronic health condition-specific stress, its contributions to cumulative life stress, allostatic load, and later-life health, and factors such as genetic variation that may influence these relationships. Identifying individual, family, and contextual factors that are part of the stress response helps care providers identify at-risk families, and develop and implement interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals with childhood chronic health conditions and their family members.
Dr. Ersig is currently a member of the IFNA Research Committee.
For more information contact IFNA member, Anne Ersig.
Kimberly Pyke-Grimm PhD, RN, CNS, is a Nurse Scientist and Clinical Nurse Specialist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, California, USA. Studying treatment decision making (TDM) in children, adolescents, and their families has been the center of her research for many years. Currently, her program of research examines adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer with a particular emphasis on TDM. Dr. Pyke-Grimm’s research also focuses on understanding the role of family and health care providers within the context of AYA treatment decision making. Supporting patient- and family-centered care and decision making through this very difficult time may help improve the chances for successful treatment in this vulnerable population. Her aim is to create developmentally appropriate interventions to support and empower AYA involvement in cancer TDM at whatever level they prefer. For more information contact IFNA member, Kimberly Pyke-Grimm.
Shelley Spurr, PhD, RN, is an associate professor at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She led the development of a program titled Caring for Kids Where They Live which is an interprofessional pediatric clinical learning environment that brings together students from the colleges of Nursing, Dentistry, Medicine, and Kinesiology in order to build capacity and improve the standard of care. The collaboration among health professionals and students within this Interprofessional clinical learning experience allows for effective pediatric care to be provided for children, adolescents, and their families where they live. The success of this program led to recognition by the Saskatchewan Registered Nursing Association for leadership in nursing practice.
Kathryn Hoehn Anderson, PhD, ARNP, PMH, PHMCNS-BS, LMFT, Professor, Georgia Southern University, USA, was a Founding Member of IFNA and served as the Director of the Center for Nursing Scholarship at Georgia Southern University.
Anne L. Ersig, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the biological, psychological, and behavioral effects of stress from childhood chronic health conditions on individuals and their family members. Chronic health conditions in children affect the whole family as they integrate management of the condition into their daily routine, respond to crises, and face developmental challenges and condition-related health transitions. Dr. Ersig’s current research explores chronic health condition-specific stress, its contributions to cumulative life stress, allostatic load, and later-life health, and factors such as genetic variation that may influence these relationships. Identifying individual, family, and contextual factors that are part of the stress response helps care providers identify at-risk families, and develop and implement interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals with childhood chronic health conditions and their family members.