The IFNA Education Committee is responsible for organizing the IFNA WEBINARS. Seven valuable IFNA webinars, offered in 2012 and 2013, have been archived for personal or classroom use and are available for purchase. Certificates of attendance will be provided for those attending the webinars so that continuing education can be documented for those who need that service. NEW IFNA WEBINAR: On Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. EDT, Dr. Sharon Denham, Texas Women’s University, USA, will be presenting an IFNA webinar:“Family Focused Nursing Practice“.
Dr. Romy Mahrer-Imhof Improves Care of Older Citizens and Their Families in Switzerland
Prof Dr. Romy Mahrer-Imhof has retired from the Zurich University of Applied Science in Switzerland and is now CEO of Nursing Science & Care Ltd. She is actively involved in family nursing research and counsels health professionals in family-focused care. Currently, she is engaged in the evaluation of many community-based projects improving care for older citizens and their families throughout Switzerland. She is a member of the European group of researchers for “Family Health in Europe- Research in Nursing” (FAME-RN) and a board member of the International Family Nursing Foundation. For more information, contact IFNA member Romy Mahrer-Imhof: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romy-mahrer-imhof-2413a419/
Iceland’s Family Nursing Leaders Implement Family Systems Nursing in Reykjavik Hospital
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]
Wilma Schroeder Makes Family Nursing Practice Visible
Wilma Schroeder, MMFT, BN, RN, Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is a nurse educator who has developed several innovative educational strategies for teaching family nursing. The goal of her teaching is to make family nursing practice visible. Her new You Tube production focuses on “How To Draw Genograms“. Also watch two new IFNA YouTube productions of Wilma talking about family nursing education strategies she is using to teach undergraduate nursing students: Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 1 (teaching circular questions); Family Nursing Education: Wilma Schroeder, Part 2 (using family stories; families as faculty in teaching health care professionals). For more information, contact IFNA member Wilma Schroeder: [email protected]
IFNA Videos Available on YouTube
Dr. Sharon Denham has produced 15 videos of IFNA members from 5 countries talking about their ideas for family nursing education, practice, and research. The videos are available on YouTube and were filmed during the 11th International Family Nursing Conference in Minneapolis in June 2013. They are a useful resource for IFNA members and offer a public identity for Family Nursing. 10/15 videos focus on Family Nursing Education. Click here for links to all of these YouTube video productions.
