Lorraine Holtslander, RN, PhD, CHPCN(c), is an Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Canada. She teaches family nursing to undergraduate nursing students as well as an interdisciplinary course in qualitative research methods at the graduate level. Her passion is for family caregivers providing palliative care in the community and she has developed a “finding balance” writing intervention specifically for bereaved family caregivers. Dr. Holtslander currently serves as Co-chair of the IFNA Education Committee.  She has offered her ideas about teaching the 15-Minute Family Interview intervention (Wright & Leahey, 2013) to undergraduate nursing students in an IFNA YouTube production.

Lorraine currently serves as Co-chair of the IFNA Education Committee.For more information, contact IFNA member Lorraine Holtslander: [email protected]

Dr. Francine de Montigny, Canadian Research Chair in Psychosocial Family Health and professor at Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada will receive the Insignia of Merit from the Order of Nurses of Quebec. The Insignia of Merit is the highest distinction conferred by the Order of Nurses of Quebec and honours nurses whose distinguished career has made an extraordinary contribution to the advancement of nursing and to the prestige of the profession. Francine de Montigny leads family nursing knowledge development in the area of family health and fatherhood in the perinatal period. She is a Founding Member of IFNA. For more information contact IFNA member, Francine deMontigny: [email protected] and see websites: Cerif.uqo.ca/en and iap.uqo.ca/en

The IFNA Family Nursing Practice Committee, chaired by Dr. Kathryn Anderson, USA, is pleased to share the findings of the IFNA.FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE Survey.2011.final report  The survey was circulated to 110 IFNA members in 2011 and 22 responses from 12 countries were received.  To increase representation from other geographic areas, articles published in the Journal of Family Nursing that described family nursing practice were mined by Committee members for additional answers to the 7 survey questions. Overall, the IFNA Family Nursing Practice Survey 2011 revealed that family nursing is still a work in progress. Models and theories to guide family nursing practice are well developed and used with success. Publications that support the description and benefits of family nursing practice are growing. Family as unit, family-centered care, and community care focused on families is successfully implemented in numerous settings by nurses, but often support for care and attention to the family is dependent on the government care model and leadership in the practice setting rather than an accepted care imperative.

The findings of the IFNA.FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE Survey.2011.final report direct the IFNA and its members to transform family nursing practice around the world by directing leadership and resources to support further scientific development of family nursing interventions, clarify family nursing education for generalist and specialist roles, identify practice competencies, conduct knowledge translation research, and courageously advocate for family focused nursing care to become a reality in health care settings around the world.