Lisbeth Kjelsrud Aass, MCN, RNS, is an assistant professor and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Department of Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik, Norway. She is also a member of the IFNA Student Engagement Group. Given that young adults suffering from mental illness are reliant on support from family in everyday life, she has a particular interest in how families manage everyday life and how they are included as a unit in community mental healthcare. Her research is focused on the perspective of families living with young adults suffering from mental illness in everyday family life. She is also examining the usefulness of Family-Centered Support Conversations in community mental healthcare settings. For more information, contact IFNA member, Lisbeth Kjelsrud Aass.
Dr. Marie Louise Luttik Leads Family Care Research in the Netherlands
Dr. Marie Louise Luttik was recently installed as a professor of Family Care within the Research Group in Nursing Diagnostics at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (the Netherlands). She is leading a Family Care program of research with a primary mission to contribute to the development of a more systemic approach to care across the full breadth of healthcare, in a variety of settings, and in collaboration with various disciplines based on applied scientific research, the results of which are translated into the curricula of the disciplines involved.
The research program now includes four PhD trajectories: Collaboration between nurses and family caregivers of older home-dwelling persons (Dr. Ellen Hagedoorn); The effectiveness of Family Health Conversations in primary care (Susanne Broekema); Young adult caregivers: Burden and support needs (Hinke van der Werf); and Shared decision making and the role of family in older patients with cancer (Bea Dijkman).
Research at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences is based on a strong interrelationship between practice, research and education. Results of various studies, e.g. teaching Family Health Conversations, have already been translated into the nursing education curriculum at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences.
For more information, contact IFNA member, Marie Louise Luttik.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-louise-luttik-44925922/
Personal Twitter account: https://twitter.com/luttikmarie
Twitter account about the family nursing initiatives at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, the Netherlands: https://twitter.com/hgfamiliezorg
Tyra Girdwood Studies the Transition from Pediatric to Adult Health Care in the Family Experience of Cystic Fibrosis
Tyra Girdwood, RN, BSN, is a PhD candidate and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).
Her dissertation focuses on the transition from pediatric to adult healthcare process in adolescents and young adults with Cystic Fibrosis. She is particularly interested in what may indicate a successful transition and learning more about the transition experience from the child and parent perspectives. Tyra’s long-term research goal is to follow a cohort of parents and individuals with Cystic Fibrosis over time to better understand health outcomes before, during, and after the transition to adult healthcare.
For more information, contact IFNA member Tyra Girdwood.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyra-girdwood
Dr. Mari Ikeda Advances Family Nursing in Japan through her Research and Practice
Mari Ikeda RN, RCP, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Nursing Administration, School of Nursing, at Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan.
Her research has focused on the development of a program to address postpartum mood among new mothers, using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, focusing as well on the broader family-level effects. This approach allows visualization of the dynamism of family relationship, through illuminating the actor-partner interaction effects on postpartum depression within the marital/partnered dyad. She has also worked to incorporate lessons learned from her program development with interpersonal group therapy for cancer patients and families.
She has held a position at the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare for 7 years as one of the Technical (Nursing Science) Officers. This has provided opportunities to conduct research in the areas of nursing administration and leadership, policy education, and health systems science with an appreciation of the interdependence of policy, research, and practice.
She is currently chair of the International Exchanges Committee of the Japanese Association for Research in Family Nursing (JARFN) which aims to develop relationships with IFNA and family nurses in other countries.
For more information, please contact IFNA member, Mari Ikeda.
Dr. Ellen Hagedoorn Improves Collaboration between Nurses and Family Caregivers of Older Home-Dwelling Persons in the Netherlands
Dr. Ellen Hagedoorn is a senior lecturer and post-doc researcher at the School of Nursing and Research Group Family Care of the Hanze University of Applied Science in Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research activities focus on promoting self-care of older home-dwelling persons and their family caregivers. In 2019 she earned a PhD and the focus of her thesis was “Collaborative partnerships between family caregivers and nurses in the care of older hospitalized persons”. As part of her thesis, she translated and validated the instrument, Families’ Importance in Nursing Care: Nurses’ Attitudes (FINC-NA), in a population of Dutch nurses using the Generalized Partial Credit Model, and psychometrically evaluated a revised version of the Family Collaboration Scale. Currently, she is also involved in research on how nurses can promote self-management of older patients in the hospital.
As a senior lecturer, she is working on improving interprofessional collaboration between nurses and other health care professionals by making a joint care plan in consultation with the patient and their primary family caregivers. She utilizes the method of Participatory Action Research in order to jointly draw up appropriate interventions.
Her post-doc research is focused on improving collaboration between nurses and other health care professionals and family caregivers of older persons with dementia. Family nursing conversations are being used to jointly draw up a care plan.
Dr. Ellen Hagedoon is currently a member of the IFNA subcommittee on International Research Collaboration. For more information contact IFNA member, Ellen Hagedoorn.
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-hagedoorn
