Dr. Francine de Montigny, Canadian Research Chair in Psychosocial Family Health and professor at Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada will receive the Insignia of Merit from the Order of Nurses of Quebec. The Insignia of Merit is the highest distinction conferred by the Order of Nurses of Quebec and honours nurses whose distinguished career has made an extraordinary contribution to the advancement of nursing and to the prestige of the profession. Francine de Montigny leads family nursing knowledge development in the area of family health and fatherhood in the perinatal period. She is a Founding Member of IFNA. For more information contact IFNA member, Francine deMontigny: [email protected] and see websites: Cerif.uqo.ca/en and iap.uqo.ca/en
IFNA Family Nursing Practice Survey 2011: Final Report
The IFNA Family Nursing Practice Committee, chaired by Dr. Kathryn Anderson, USA, is pleased to share the findings of the IFNA.FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE Survey.2011.final report The survey was circulated to 110 IFNA members in 2011 and 22 responses from 12 countries were received. To increase representation from other geographic areas, articles published in the Journal of Family Nursing that described family nursing practice were mined by Committee members for additional answers to the 7 survey questions. Overall, the IFNA Family Nursing Practice Survey 2011 revealed that family nursing is still a work in progress. Models and theories to guide family nursing practice are well developed and used with success. Publications that support the description and benefits of family nursing practice are growing. Family as unit, family-centered care, and community care focused on families is successfully implemented in numerous settings by nurses, but often support for care and attention to the family is dependent on the government care model and leadership in the practice setting rather than an accepted care imperative.
The findings of the IFNA.FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE Survey.2011.final report direct the IFNA and its members to transform family nursing practice around the world by directing leadership and resources to support further scientific development of family nursing interventions, clarify family nursing education for generalist and specialist roles, identify practice competencies, conduct knowledge translation research, and courageously advocate for family focused nursing care to become a reality in health care settings around the world.
Dr. Naohiro Hohashi named “Transcultural Nursing Scholar”
Dr. Naohiro Hohashi is a Professor of Health Care Nursing and Department Director, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Japan. He served on the IFNA Board of Directors from 2010-2014. He has been selected as a “Transcultural Nursing Scholar” and will be honoured at the 40th annual meeting of the Transcultural Nursing Society in October 2014. Dr. Hohashi developed the Concentric Sphere Family Environment Model and has conducted comparative research on how the family is affected by culture and values in Japan, Hong Kong and North America. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Japanese Association for Research in Family Nursing (JARFN), the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transcultural Nursing and Editor of the Japan Journal of Nursing Science. For more information, contact IFNA member Naohiro Hohashi: [email protected]
Dr. Petra Brysiewicz Leads the Family Support Care Research Group, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dr. Petra Brysiewicz, PhD, is a Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing & Public Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her scholarly work focuses on advancing the development of emergency care in South Africa and across the continent of Africa. Her program of research includes the psychosocial implications of violence and injury. Dr. Brysiewicz leads the Family Support Care Research Group developed with her colleagues Dr. B. Bhengu and Dr. Chipps. She is the Principal Investigator of a project which aims to develop an in-hospital psychosocial intervention for families of critically ill trauma patients who have been admitted to an Intensive Care Unit. For more information, contact IFNA member Petra Brysiewicz: [email protected]
Family Nursing Externship, Switzerland: 23 participants from 3 countries
Dr. Lorraine Wright, Canada, and Dr. Janice M. Bell, Canada, offered an invited 4-day Family Nursing Externship workshop for advanced practice to 23 nurses from 3 countries (Switzerland, Austria, Italy) in June 2014. Sponsored by Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Nursing, the Family Nursing Externship offered ideas about advanced practice with families focused on the Illness Beliefs Model and the Trinity Model. A live family interview with a Swiss family experiencing illness was offered by Dr. Lorraine Wright and a reflecting team intervention was moderated by Dr. Janice Bell. Thanks to Barbara Preusse Bleuler for organizing and hosting this event which focused on increasing the competence and confidence of practicing nurses to offer family nursing interventions to families. For more information, contact IFNA members, Lorraine Wright: [email protected] or Janice M. Bell: [email protected]
