International Family Nursing Association (IFNA)  Reach Statistics 2016:

• 40,944 visitors to the IFNA website.
• Most active countries (listed in order of frequency of visitors) were: United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, and Spain.
• Twitter impressions reached 50,000 in the second quarter of 2016.
• IFNA hashtag #familyhealth reached 156,287 with 529,467 impressions in 2016.

The IFNA Reach Statistics for 2016 show increased influence of @IFNAorg and #familyhealth #familynursing and #familyhealing when compared with results from the IFNA Reach Statistics 2015. 

IFNA Infographic (see below) developed by the IFNA Communications Committee. 

Dr. Joanna Smith is a Lecturer in Children’s Nursing at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. She emphasizes that she is, “first and foremost a children’s nurse” with 15 years of clinical experience, primarily caring for children and their families with complex needs requiring surgery, which informs her teaching and research,  Her main research interests relate to the way in which health professionals’ work with and involve children, young people and their families in decisions about their care, in the context of children with long-term conditions.  Although she is involved in a range of research methods, she primarily uses qualitative methods. She has successfully supervised several PhD students whose topics link to the focus of her research, for example, parent-child shared-decision making in asthma, and involving parents in their child’s pain care. Joanna is a member of the new UK/Ireland IFNA Chapter. For more information contact IFNA member, Joanna Smith.

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/josmith175 

Institutional website: https://medhealth.leeds.ac.uk/profile/1100/1504/joanna_smith