Kyoko Kobayashi, PhD, RN, PHN, is a Professor in Child Health Nursing, Graduate School of Nursing Sciences, St. Luke’s International University, Tokyo, Japan. She was a Fulbright scholar at University of Pennsylvania, USA where she conducted research and observed practice with families. She is proposing a nurse-led survivorship care clinic and educational program for pediatric oncology nurses in Japan. Through a combination of research and clinical practice (providing health check-ups for cancer survivors, conducting family interviews, and providing educational support to survivors and families) she hopes to document the usefulness of nurse-led survivorship care and evaluate the efficacy of this approach of caring for the family. Dr. Kobayashi currently serves as a member of IFNA Resource Advancement Committee. For more information contact IFNA member, Kyoko Kobayashi.
Dr. Li-Chi Chiang Conducts Family Nursing Knowledge Transfer Research in Taiwan
Li-Chi Chiang, RN, PhD, is a Professor, School of Nursing, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan. Her current research is focused on a family nursing knowledge transfer project in which critical nurses learn to offer family nursing interventions to families of patients in ICU. (A photo of an ICU nurse in Taiwan offering family nursing intervention to a family is shown below.) Dr. Chiang currently serves as a member of the IFNA Practice Committee and as an IFNA country liaison. For more information contact Li-Chi Chiang: [email protected]
Dr. Jennifer Baumbusch Invites Ageing Families to the Table Through Her Research on Family Inclusion in Care Settings
Jennifer Baumbusch, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her family nursing research focuses on how nurses and other care providers can improve the inclusion of families in long-term care facilities (also known as nursing homes). She has conducted ethnographic research to better understand how families and care providers work together in this setting. Her current research explores innovative approaches to knowledge translation research with families, using participatory methods, to further advance family inclusion in this setting. Jennifer recently received a 2016 Award for Advancing Nursing Knowledge & Research from the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia in recognition of her extensive scholarly work with ageing families. For more information contact IFNA member, Jennifer Baumbusch.
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Dr. Christen Erlingsson Advances Family Nursing Science in Sweden
Christen Erlingsson, Med. Dr., District Nurse Specialist, RN, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health and Life Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her current focus in family nursing research is in conceptualizing how people understand ”family”. She recently collaborated with Dr. Petra Bryziewicz at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa in a study that compared undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students’ personal definitions of family. Additional collaboration with UKZN includes supervison of doctoral students’ thesis projects based on family nursing based care interventions in Critical Care. Dr. Erlingsson’s research has also included studies on closing letters to family who have participated in Family Health Conversations (Fam-HC), and studies on older family caregivers’ health. Recently she has collaborated with researchers at Umeå University in Sweden testing psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Iceland-Family Perceived Support Questionnaire (ICE-FPSQ). For more information contact IFNA member, Christen Erlingsson.
Dr. Maureen Leahey appointed to the Patient, Family, and Public Advisory Council for Nova Scotia Health Authority
Maureen Leahey, RN, PhD, has been appointed to the newly created Patient, Family, and Public Advisory Council for the Nova Scotia Health Authority in Canada. This provincial council advises senior leaders, healthcare providers, staff, and physicians on policies, practices, planning and delivery of patient and family centered care. The initial focus of this 12 member volunteer Council will be to offer input on health services planning.
This is an exciting step for the Nova Scotia Health Authority to ensure patients, families, and communities are meaningful partners of the organization and that their perspectives are heard and reflected in decision making. Dr. Leahey is the co-author of the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models and her seasoned wisdom about how to be helpful to families will help make family nursing more visible at the provincial level of government in Canada. For more information contact IFNA member, Maureen Leahey.
