Dr. Lorraine Wright, Canada, offered an invited family nursing seminar in October 2014 titled, “Healing Families: What every nurse needs to know and do” in Pamplona, Spain. The seminar was organized by Maribel Beunza, an advanced nurse practitioner in family nursing and held at the “Clinica Universidad de Navarra”. Nurses from a variety of inpatient and outpatient units and professors from the School of Nursing of the University of Navarra (Dr. Ana Canga and Dr. Cristina García-Vivar) attended the seminar. For more information, contact IFNA member, Lorraine Wright: [email protected]
Wilma Schroeder Makes Family Nursing Practice Visible in Undergraduate Education
Wilma Schroeder, MMFT, BN, RN, Course Leader – Family Nursing, Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is dedicated to making family nursing practice visible in her undergraduate teaching. She recently received approval from Red River College to post the Family Nursing Lab Manual she developed on the IFNA Education Resources page of the IFNA website. The “family nursing labs” are an important element of the undergraduate family nursing course that Wilma teaches. In addition to online tutorials and a face-to-face classes, more than half of the course is “family nursing labs” where both family nursing theory and family nursing application/skill development is emphasized.
Wilma has also produced a YouTube video called “How To Draw Genograms“ and participated in two IFNA YouTube videos on Family Nursing Education: 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). All of these resources are also posted on the IFNA Education Resources page of the IFNA website. For more information, contact IFNA member Wilma Schroeder: [email protected]
Mankato Toolkit Simulation Videos
Nurse educators at Minnesota State University Mankato, USA (Angela Christian; Stacey Van Gelderen; Colleen Royle; Mary Ann McKenna Moon; and Norma Krumwiede) are leading the development of family nursing education using simulation. The Mankato Toolkit Simulation Videos show how the complexities of family-focused nursing communication and care can be practically incorporated into simulation strategies and experiences. These videos are only a portion of the Mankato nurse educator group’s entire approach to simulation learning experiences and the curriculum that they have developed with a family nursing focus. The Mankato Toolkit Simulation Videos are available to IFNA members through the generosity of The Glen Taylor Institute for Family & Society.
Dr. Lorraine Holtslander Focuses on Family Caregivers Providing Palliative Care in the Community
Lorraine Holtslander, RN, PhD, CHPCN(c), is an Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Canada. She teaches family nursing to undergraduate nursing students as well as an interdisciplinary course in qualitative research methods at the graduate level. Her passion is for family caregivers providing palliative care in the community and she has developed a “finding balance” writing intervention specifically for bereaved family caregivers. Dr. Holtslander currently serves as Co-chair of the IFNA Education Committee. She has offered her ideas about teaching the 15-Minute Family Interview intervention (Wright & Leahey, 2013) to undergraduate nursing students in an IFNA YouTube production.
Lorraine currently serves as Co-chair of the IFNA Education Committee.For more information, contact IFNA member Lorraine Holtslander: [email protected]
“Writing A Winning Abstract”: IFNA archived webinar available for FREE ACCESS now
The co-chairs of the IFNA Research Committee offered an IFNA webinar in September 2014 entitled, “Writing a Winning Abstract: A Walk through the Abstract Submission Process with our International Nursing Colleagues,” which was open to IFNA members and non-members. This archived webinar is now available for FREE access. The Call for Abstracts for the 12th International Family Nursing Conference is open between October 1-November 24, 2014.
The content of the Writing a Winning Abstract webinar includes: a brief introduction to the next IFNA conference, 2) nuts and bolts of abstracts, 3) review of abstract sections with examples, 4) review of two sample abstracts, 5) tips for success, 6) review of online submission process, and 7) questions and answers with dialogue. The purpose of the webinar is to assist family nursing colleagues in preparing strong abstracts for the 12th International Family Nursing Conference and to increase the visibility and potential membership for IFNA.
The webinar announcement was distributed widely—to IFNA members, family organizations, doctoral program directors, research deans, Eastern Nursing Research Society, USA, and to other international colleagues and groups through IFNA board members, committee chairs, and Country Liaisons. 119 persons registered for the webinar and 71 joined the webinar representing 20 countries. The webinar was recorded, and the link is now available to IFNA members and nonmembers on the website. The number of hits to the archived webinar will be tracked. The IFNA Research Committee plans to follow up with webinar registrants and attendees to provide them with more information about IFNA and to encourage membership.
