A Tribute to the Landspitali University Hospital Family Nursing Implementation Project (2007-2011) describes the innovative work of family nursing leaders in Iceland to implement family nursing on every unit of a large 900 bed university hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland [see blog post]. This carefully designed Implementation Project, led by Dr. Erla Svavarsdottir, Professor, University of Iceland, featured knowledge translation research which examined the family and nurse outcomes of an education intervention with practicing nurses who were taught a brief therapeutic conversation family nursing intervention and included the psychometric development of two research instruments based on the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (Wright & Leahey, 2013). A list of all of the known publications from this project is included in this blog post. For more information, contact IFNA member Erla Svavarsdottir: [email protected]
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 
