Dr. Laurie Gottlieb, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, is the author of a new book, “Strengths-based nursing care: Health and healing for person and family“. This book was awarded the 2013 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year award and won FIRST place in the Education, Continuing Education category. Dr. Gottlieb organized an inaugural conference featuring Strengths Based Nursing: Practice Education, and Leadership in November 2013. The conference was co-hosted by McGill Ingram School of Nursing and the nursing departments of three teaching hospitals in Montreal – the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, the Jewish General Hospital, and the McGill University Health Centre. The one day event attracted over 500 participants and another 200 joined the conference via the Internet. Keynotes were offered by Dr. Patricia Benner, noted educator and author, and Dr. Judith Shamian, President of ICN. Dr. Gottlieb and Dr. Benner co-authored a recent blog post about this topic. For more information, contact IFNA member, Laurie Gottlieb: [email protected]
New Scandinavian Family Nursing Facebook Page
Doctoral family nursing students in Sweden have developed a NEW FACEBOOK PAGE called “Scandinavian Family Nursing”. The Facebook page is open to anyone who has an interest in Family Nursing. Liselott Årestedt, Ami Bylund, and Marie-Louise (Mio) Mollerberg envision the Facebook page to be a place where family nursing experiences can be shared; questions about family nursing practice, research, or education can be discussed; and the nursing of families can be advanced.
IFNA Practice Committee developing Competencies for Family Nursing Practice
The IFNA Family Nursing Practice Committee is beginning the process of developing Competencies for Family Nursing Practice for generalist and advanced practice. Please forward your ideas to Committee Co-chair, Kathryn Anderson: [email protected]
Dr. Lorraine Wright Authors New Self-Help Book
Dr. Lorraine M. Wright has recently written a new self-help book about marriage and health called, “Don’t Get Married…Unless…” based on her extensive clinical practice with couples. Watch a short clip from a recent TV interview in which Lorraine offers her “hot tips” about marriage: http://www.btcalgary.ca/videos/3027631465001/ . (The sound on the videoclip fades into silence and then returns, so please be patient). For more information, contact IFNA member Lorraine Wright: [email protected]
Dr. Fabie Duhamel Receives Funding to Create International Research Collaboration in Family Systems Nursing Knowledge Translation
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 Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models (Wright & Leahey, 2013) and the Illness Beliefs Model (Wright & Bell, 2009). A KT research collaboration between Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand has already received funding. For more information about this project, contact IFNA member Fabie Duhamel: [email protected]
