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Genograms and Ecomaps

Wilma Schroeder, MMFT, BN, RN, is a nurse educator in Canada who has developed several innovative educational strategies for teaching undergraduate family nursing. The goal of her teaching is to make family nursing practice visible.  Her You Tube production focuses on “How To Draw Genograms” which is a companion to her YouTube production, “How To Draw Ecomaps“. See her other IFNA videos archived on YouTube:  Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 1 (teaching circular questions); Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 2 (using family stories; families as faculty in teaching health care professionals). For more information contact IFNA member, Wilma Schroeder.

Other Resources:

The Multicultural Family Institute, Standard Symbols for Genograms

Navajo Nation Ecomap



WebQuest: Family Nursing Teaching and Learning Strategy

The WebQuest is a teaching/learning strategy that combines higher order thinking skills and technology.  WebQuests are an excellent tool to use for family nursing education because they incorporate active learning, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning. In addition, the WebQuest is versatile and can be tailor-made to emphasize any family nursing topic! WebQuests are webpages designed using the technology capabilities with instructional design principles. Typically, each WebQuest is consists of focused questions, intentional reflection, guided exploration, and links to resources.

The purpose of a WebQuest is to develop higher order thinking such as creating, analysis, reflection, synthesis, and evaluation.  The WebQuest strategy was developed by Dr. Bernie Dodge and Dr. Tom March.  The main components of the WebQuest strategy (introduction, task, resources, processes, guidance, and conclusion) form the structure of the WebQuest. According to Dr. Bernie Dodge, WebQuests should be a practice application or simulation of the real world.  That makes it a great fit for family nursing education, as learners can experience simulated applications in a safe environment before doing in clinical nursing practice!  Educators can search for WebQuests being shared by educators with educators, or create their own.

View an example of a WebQuest: Nursing WebQuest: Patients and Families with Chronic Illness.  Dr. Leibold will lead a “How To” session on creating WebQuests at a 3-day educational institute: Teaching Family Nursing Institute, to be held June 2-4, 2014 in Mankato, Minnesota, USA. For more information, contact IFNA member Nancyruth Leibold: [email protected]

Educational DVD’s by Lorraine Wright & Maureen Leahey

"How To" Family Nursing DVD SeriesDr. Lorraine Wright and Dr. Maureen Leahey maintain a website called Family Nursing Resources which offers several resources for teaching family nursing, including 8 DVD’s from their “How To” Family Nursing series based on the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models:

  • Wright, L.M. & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2010). Common errors in family interviewing: How to avoid & correct [DVD]. (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)
  •  Wright, L.M. & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2010).  Tips and microskills for interviewing: Families of the Elderly [DVD]. (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)
  •  Wright, L.M. & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2010).  Interviewing an individual to gain a family perspective with chronic illness:  A clinical demonstration [DVD]. (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)
  •  Wright, L.M. & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2006).  How to use questions in family interviewing. [DVD/Videotape]. (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)
  •  Wright, L.M., & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2003). How to intervene with families with health concerns [DVD/Videotape]. (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)
  • Wright, L.M., & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2002). Family nursing interviewing skills:  how to engage, assess, intervene, and terminate [DVD/Videotape].  (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)
  •  Wright, L.M., & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2001). Calgary Family Assessment Model: How to apply in clinical practice [DVD/Videotape]. (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)
  •  Wright, L.M., & Leahey, M. (Producers).  (2000). How to do a 15 minute (or less) interview [DVD/Videotape]. (available from www.FamilyNursingResources.com)

In addition, Dr. Lorraine Wright’s blog often highlights clinical case examples of family nursing practice which might be helpful to teachers and learners:  The Wright Perspective.  She has also developed a DVD about Spirituality and Illness Suffering:

  • Wright, L.M. (Producer). (2007). Spirituality, suffering, and illness: Conversations for healing. [DVD/Videotape]. (available from: www.lorrainewright.com)

Dr Wright demonstrates an actual therapeutic conversation with a family where love is a powerful healer. Specific skills of how to create a context of love and bring forth curious compassion that is devoid of judgment is also offered. The purpose of every therapeutic conversation is to soften suffering and promote healing and this new DVD will assist nurses in doing so by enhancing their confidence and competence when working with families in a context of love.

 

For more information, contact IFNA member Lorraine Wright: [email protected] or IFNA member Maureen Leahey: [email protected]

IFNA Webinar Series

The IFNA Education Committee is responsible for scheduling webinars related to Family Nursing Education, Practice, and Research. If you are interested in offering a webinar, please contact Co-Chair of the IFNA Education Committee: Dr. Lorraine Holtslander:  [email protected]

 

 

 

 

Visit the Webinar Series page for more information.

List of specific education focused webinars: 

  • Family Nursing’s Role in Transgender and Gender Diverse Care
  • Developing Family Care & Communication Skills in Simulation
  • Preparing Older Citizens of Families for Global Climate Change
  • State of the Science in Family Nursing Interviewing: A Global Perspective
  • State of the Science of Family Interviewing: A Collective Family Perspective
  • State of the Science of Family Interviewing: Through the Eyes of the Individual
  • Expanding Simulation Strategies to Include a Focus on Family
  • Curriculum Evaluation Using the IFNA Generalist Competencies for Family Nursing Practice

Dr. Regina Szylit Bousso Advances Care of Families Experiencing Loss and Bereavement

Regina Bousso.photoDr. Regina Szylit Bousso is an associate professor at the School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Research in Loss and Bereavement (NIPPEL).  She has been selected to represent Brazilian nurses on the International Work Group in Death, Dying and Bereavement (IWG), a prestigious and very selective honour. Dr. Bousso supervises Master’s and Doctoral students with interests in her research areas of preventing complicated grief. She has developed an integrated program and process of education, research, and clinical practice aimed to improve nursing care to families experiencing situations of death at the Children’s Oncology Hospital, Brazil. An accomplished and published academic,  Dr. Bousso is seen as a ground breaking nurse educator, bringing a focus on family nursing to Brazilian nurses. For more information contact IFNA member, Regina Szylit Bousso: [email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SzylitRegina

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