Linda T. Maldonado PhD, RN, is an assistant professor in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA. Her current program of research focuses on the relationship of intergenerational family caregiving with late prenatal care and poor infant outcomes in urban, childbearing Puerto Rican women. Her earlier doctoral work examined midwives and communities of vulnerable childbearing women through the lens of History of Nursing. Dr. Maldonado is committed to mentoring future nurses who appreciate and participate in research on health disparities, and thus she engages undergraduate and graduate nursing students in her research. For more information, contact IFNA member, Linda Maldonado.
Fernanda Lise Advances Family Assessment in Brazil
Fernanda Lise is a Brazilian pediatric nurse and doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Nursing at Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), member of Core of Chronic Conditions and their Interfaces (NUCCRIN). She is working with Dr. Eda Schwartz and Dr. Kathryn Hoehn Anderson in the project “Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the instrument: The Assessment of Strategies in Families – Effectiveness to Portuguese language for use with Brazilian families”. This family assessment instrument was developed and validated by Dr. Marie-Luise Friedemann. Fernanda is currently working on testing the use of the instrument in Brazil so that nurses will be able to use a family assessment tool in practice. Fernanda is the author of two blogs: Care & Families and Family Nursing – Brazil.
Fernanda is a member of the IFNA Student Engagement Group and currently serves as a member of the IFNA Practice Committee. For more information contact IFNA member, Fernanda Lise.
Curriculum Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3700324668794175
Wilma Schroeder Promotes Family Nursing as a Family Health Consultant
Wilma Schroeder, BN, MMFT, promotes family and community health in her new role as a self-employed Family Health Consultant. She facilitates a 6-week family psychoeducation program at the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society. As well, she provides workshops as an independent contractor for the Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute on topics related to mental health, trauma and crisis management and has travelled to various First Nations communities in Manitoba and North Western Ontario to present these. In these small communities, the health workers are frequently all related to each other, so the workshop is essentially given to an extended family group. Most recently, she has provided education to family support workers from ten small First Nations communities. Wilma serves on the Board of Directors of the Jessie Home, a home for girls in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She also provides consultation upon request to families living with a mental illness. Wilma served as a co-chair and member of the IFNA Communications Committee from 2013-2020. For more information, contact IFNA member, Wilma Schroeder.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wschroederMMFT
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilma-schroeder-b9a59a38/
Website: https://wilmaschroeder.com
Links to family nursing education resources developed by Wilma:
Family Nursing Lab Manual, Red River College (undergraduate level)
YouTube video: How to Draw Genograms
YouTube video: How to Draw Ecomaps
IFNA YouTube video: Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 1 (teaching circular questions)
IFNA YouTube video: Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 2 (using family stories; families as faculty in teaching health care professionals)
Dr. Linda Young Champions Family Nursing in Academic Leadership
Linda K. Young, PhD, RN, CNE, CFLE, is a Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA. Her family scholarship has focused on the family experience of adult hematopoietic transplant patients during transplant when admitted to a critical care environment and the first year post-transplant. She co-led the creation of a baccalaureate nursing program with a strong emphasis on family nursing throughout the curriculum. She is a certified family life educator and certified nurse educator. Dr. Young presently serves as the co-chair of the IFNA Resource Advancement Committee and assisted in leading the first meeting of nursing deans at IFNC13 in Pamplona, Spain. Dr. Young’s significant contributions were recently recognized with her 2020 induction as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
For more information contact IFNA member, Linda Young.
Dr. Alison Metcalfe Advances Knowledge about the Communication of Genetic Risk Information in Families
Alison Metcalfe, PhD, BSc, RN, PG Certificate in Family Therapy, assumed a new position in April 2018 as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean for the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK: http://www4.shu.ac.uk/mediacentre/new-dean-appointed-lead-health-and-wellbeing-faculty
Her program of research focuses of the communication of genetic risk information in families. She works with clinical colleagues, patients, and families to co-design interventions informed by family systems, which facilitate family members’ communication, coping, and adaptation to living with a genetic condition. She and her colleagues recently obtained European Union funding to co-design services that support health professionals in delivery of genome sequencing results to families affected by rare disease. Dr. Metcalfe co-leads the new UK/Ireland IFNA Chapter with Dr. Veronica Swallow. For more information contact IFNA member, Alison Metcalfe.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetcalfeAlison
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/alison-metcalfe-58501720
