Stacey Van Gelderen DNP, MS, PHN, RN, is an Associate Professor, School of Nursing at Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA. Her clinical expertise includes obstetrics and pediatrics.  Dr. Van Gelderen’s research and educational practice focuses on supporting family care skill development through utilization of the Van Gelderen Family Care Rubric (Van Gelderen, Krumwiede, & Christian, 2016). Dr. Van Gelderen teaches nursing students family history and data collection within the classroom and simulation settings while utilizing an MSU developed family-focused electronic health record (SAFE-HR) that has an interactive, genogram, ecomap, and family care constructs for ease of charting and collecting family health and support: http://safehrapp.b507.net/ Dr. Van Gelderen is currently a member of the IFNA Education Committee. For more information contact IFNA member Stacey Van Gelderen. 

Susanne Broekema, MSc., is a doctoral student at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Research Group Nursing Diagnostics, Groningen, the Netherlands and a member of the IFNA Student Engagement Group.  She is working with  Dr. Marie Louise Luttik in a program of research that focuses on training in, experiences with, and effects of family nursing conversations, specifically in home health care. The research project is part of the Innovation Lab Family Care, in which research groups, care organizations, and educational institutions collaborate to implement principles of family nursing and specifically family nursing conversations in the Netherlands. For more information contact IFNA member, Susanne Broekema. 

Sivia Bar-Noy, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Head of the Graduate Program, Nursing Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her teaching and program of research focuses on the social, psychological, ethical, and legal aspects of genetics. She is currently involved in a study about the impact of genetics on families which examines the parental experience of having a child with a genetic condition. Another study focuses on the question: “to whom does genetic information belong?” Genetic information is of importance to the individual who is tested as well as to the individual’s family. In a large-scale study, attitudes, opinions, and behavioral intentions of genetic counselees regarding the disclosure of their genetic information to their families were examined. Recently a qualitative study was conducted in which onco-genetic counselors and nurses were interviewed regarding their experience with family involvement in decision making related to cancer genetic tests. For more information, contact IFNA member, Sivia Bar-Noy.

Twitter account: @SiviaBarnoy

The International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) sponsored a booth at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in Washington, DC, USA, October 29th, 2017. The purpose of the display was to communicate the mission of IFNA to those attending the AACN conference, sponsored by a key nursing policy organization for nursing education in the USA. Led by IFNA member, Dr. Linda Young (USA), member of the IFNA Resource Advancement Committee, the booth was a great success.  Several Jonas Scholars who are finishing their doctoral studies indicated they are conducting research with families and are interested in in becoming IFNA members.