Alexandra Hodson, MN, RN, is an undergraduate instructor at the University of Regina Faculty of Nursing, Saskatoon Campus in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Her graduate research focused on the experience of family caregiving for individuals with advanced heart failure. Her work outlined the state of the literature related to the experience of family caregiving for persons with advanced heart failure which illustrated the unique characteristics of this population as well as identified gaps that require further research investigation. Alexandra Hodson currently serves on the Saskatchewan Council of Aging Caregiver Committee where she develops and leads programming that assist families experiencing the strain of caregiving. For more information, contact IFNA member Alexandra Hodson.
Barbara Preusse Bleuler Leads Knowledge Transfer of Family Nursing to Practice Settings in Switzerland
Barbara Preusse Bleuler, MScN, is a faculty member at the School of Health Professions, Institute of Nursing, Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. She has been very involved in knowledge transfer of family nursing to practice settings through Switzerland and beyond over several years and in many health care settings. She translated Wright & Leahey’s Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment into the German language and uses the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models in her knowledge translation work. At the recent Family Health Across Lifespan International Conference held in the Netherlands in February, 2018, her novel poster, “BAIA: A Metaphor and an Acronym” about the implementation of the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models won first prize.
The poster focused on the importance of creating space for a family interview using the acronym BAIA: This metaphor and acronym renders the necessity of relationship building in family nursing interviews more memorable and tangible.
For more information contact IFNA member, Barbara Preusse Bleuler.
Dr. Paula Nersesian Conducts Research on the Psychosocial Determinants of Health
Paula Nersesian, PhD, MPH, recently joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, as an Instructor soon after graduating from their PhD Program. She is also a new IFNA member. Paula joined the IFNA Research Committee to learn about family nursing research and incorporate the methodologies validated by IFNA members into her developing program of research on psychosocial determinants of health. She is currently serving as a liaison between the IFNA Research and IFNA Communications Committees. In this role, Paula will be recruiting family nursing research news from IFNA members about upcoming, ongoing, and concluding studies that will be featured on the the IFNA website and shared through all of the IFNA social media channels. Feel free to contact Paula directly or if you receive a message from her about your research, please respond promptly! For more information contact IFNA member, Paula Nersesian.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaulaNersesian
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-nersesian-b7359595/
Dr. Laura Gultekin Promotes Family Health and Recovery from Housing Instability in the USA
Laura Gultekin, PhD, FNP-BC, RN, is an assistant professor and currently holds the Suzanne Bellinger Feetham Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan School of Nursing in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Her research focuses on the experiences and needs of families who are homeless, with an emphasis on the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma that contribute to housing instability. As the Suzanne Bellinger Feetham Professor of Nursing, she is able to devote much of the academic year to developing community-academic research partnerships that provide context and guidance for developing and implementing interventions that promote recovery from housing instability. In addition, she teaches health promotion theory for graduate nursing students and in the Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program, providing a family nursing lens to advanced practice education. For more information contact IFNA member, Laura Gultekin.
Dr. Linda Maldonado Studies Intergenerational Family Caregiving in Childbearing Puerto Rican Women
Linda T. Maldonado PhD, RN, is an assistant professor in the M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing at Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA. Her current program of research focuses on the relationship of intergenerational family caregiving with late prenatal care and poor infant outcomes in urban, childbearing Puerto Rican women. Her earlier doctoral work examined midwives and communities of vulnerable childbearing women through the lens of History of Nursing. Dr. Maldonado is committed to mentoring future nurses who appreciate and participate in research on health disparities, and thus she engages undergraduate and graduate nursing students in her research. For more information, contact IFNA member, Linda Maldonado.
