The IFNA Family Nursing Practice Committee is beginning the process of developing Competencies for Family Nursing Practice for generalist and advanced practice. Please forward your ideas to Committee Co-chair, Kathryn Anderson: [email protected]
Dr. Lorraine Wright Authors New Self-Help Book
Dr. Lorraine M. Wright has recently written a new self-help book about marriage and health called, “Don’t Get Married…Unless…” based on her extensive clinical practice with couples. Watch a short clip from a recent TV interview in which Lorraine offers her “hot tips” about marriage: http://www.btcalgary.ca/videos/3027631465001/ . (The sound on the videoclip fades into silence and then returns, so please be patient). For more information, contact IFNA member Lorraine Wright: [email protected]
Dr. Fabie Duhamel Receives Funding to Create International Research Collaboration in Family Systems Nursing Knowledge Translation
Dr. Fabie Duhamel, Center of Excellence in Family Nursing, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to bring together Family Systems Nursing colleagues from 6 countries (Canada, Iceland, Japan, Sweden, Thailand, USA) to to create an International Family Systems Nursing Collaboration (IFSYNC) for research using knowledge translation (KT) science to examine the implementation of of family nursing to practice settings. This group first met in Montreal in October 2012; met in Minneapolis in June 2013 (adding two new countries to the research collaboration: Switzerland and Spain); met in Denmark in August 2015; and plan to meet in Spain in June 2017. Knowledge users have also participated in these planning meetings. Several research proposals have been submitted to various funding agencies to examine knowledge translation of family nursing to practice using the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (Wright & Leahey, 2013) and the Illness Beliefs Model (Wright & Bell, 2009). A KT research collaboration between Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand has already received funding. For more information about this project, contact IFNA member Fabie Duhamel: [email protected]
25th Annual Conference of Family Nursing in Thailand was Held in July 2013
Dr. Darunee Jongudomkarn, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, reports that the 25th Annual Conference of Family Nursing in Thailand was held July 13-15, 2013. The theme of the conference celebrated “25 Years of Knowledge Building to the Translation of Family Knowledge In Practice”. Khon Kaen University, Faculty of Nursing, has also just launched the Thailand Family Nursing Journal (ISSN 2287-0261) which is published in cooperation with the Family Nursing Society of Thailand. The plan is to publish one volume per year with English abstracts for each manuscript. For more information, contact IFNA member Darunee Jongudomkarn: [email protected]
2013 Family Nursing Externship Held in Denmark
Dr. Lorraine Wright and Dr. Janice M. Bell offered a 4-day Family Nursing Externship in Odense, Denmark, September 23-26, 2013 sponsored by the University of Southern Denmark and Lillebaet University. Thirty-three nurses from 6 countries participated in the workshop which focused on the Illness Beliefs Model and the Trinity Model for advanced nursing practice with families experiencing illness. The highlight of the workshop was a live therapeutic conversation conducted by Dr. Lorraine Wright with a Danish family experiencing cancer. A reflecting team conversation was also offered to the family led by Dr. Janice Bell and a clinical team of participants. A therapeutic letter was sent to the family following the therapeutic conversation.
