Ann Garwick, PhD, RN, LMFT, LP, FAAN, is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, USA. Her research focuses on promoting the health of children and adolescents with chronic health conditions and their family caregivers. Current research projects include the International School Nurse Asthma and ADHD Project conducted in Minnesota and Iceland with IFNA colleagues, Drs. Wendy Looman and Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir; Project SNAPSHOT, a school nurse-directed obesity prevention for elementary students; and the Managing Epilepsy Well Project. Her contributions to family nursing have been recognized by her induction as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing and receipt of a Midwest Nursing Research Society Senior Pediatric Researcher Award. Dr. Garwick has also served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Family Nursing since 2002. For more information contact IFNA member, Ann Garwick.
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Dr. Jennifer Baumbusch Invites Ageing Families to the Table Through Her Research on Family Inclusion in Care Settings
Jennifer Baumbusch, RN, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her family nursing research focuses on how nurses and other care providers can improve the inclusion of families in long-term care facilities (also known as nursing homes). She has conducted ethnographic research to better understand how families and care providers work together in this setting. Her current research explores innovative approaches to knowledge translation research with families, using participatory methods, to further advance family inclusion in this setting. Jennifer recently received a 2016 Award for Advancing Nursing Knowledge & Research from the Association of Registered Nurses of British Columbia in recognition of her extensive scholarly work with ageing families. For more information contact IFNA member, Jennifer Baumbusch.
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Family Nursing in Sweden: A Tribute to Visionary Leadership
![Left to right: Dr. Eva Benzein, Dr. Britt-Inger Saveman](https://internationalfamilynursing.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Benzein.Saveman.jpg)
Dr. Britt-Inger Saveman, Umea University, Sweden and Dr. Eva Benzein, Linnaeus University, Sweden have shared an exciting and determined vision for implementing family nursing in Sweden since 2000. Beginning with a dedicated family focused practice unit that provided space and equipment to videotape nurse researchers’ conversations with families experiencing illness, they, along with their colleagues, developed the Family Health Conversations (FamHC) intervention by culturally adapting existing Family Systems Nursing practice models. They coedited a textbook, co-authored numerous research publications with their colleagues about the use of FamHC across various populations of families, and developed an instrument: “Families Involvement in Nursing Care – Nurses’ Attitudes” (FINC-NA) that has been translated into more than ten languages and used in numerous research projects around the world. They also initiated and hosted the First Nordic Conference in Family Focused Nursing in 2002 followed by 2006 and 2010; the Fourth Nordic Conference in Family Focused Nursing was held in 2014 in Odense, Denmark. For more information contact IFNA members, Britt-Inger Saveman and Eva Benzein.
Dr. Eva Benzein was the recipient of the 2015 IFNA Excellence in Family Nursing Award.
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Keynote Presenters
Opening Keynote “Who are you from?”
Martha Driessnack, PhD, PPCNP-BC, RN
Associate Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
School of Nursing
Portland, Oregon USA
This opening session weaves children’s art and stories with emerging research on the importance of intergenerational relationships and family lore, shifting the common question of “Where are you from?” to the more revealing “Who are you from?”
Martha Driessnack is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with over 30 years of practice with children and families. She received her BSN from the Ohio State University, MSN from Yale University, and PhD from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), with a minor in art therapy from Marylhurst University. She then completed the NINR Summer Genetics Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a post-doctoral research fellowship in clinical genetics at the University of Iowa.
Her program of research revolves around the active engagement of children in all matters of health-related research and practice. To date, much of her work has centered on the integration of child-centric techniques, including the use of art to facilitate communication. To date, she has engaged children in a wide array of conversations, from health-related symptoms, such as fear and pain, to understanding complex topics, such as genetic origins, disease causation, risk, and/or inheritance. Using art, she continues to be in awe of the degree to which children are able to communicate their needs, experiences, and challenges and the nuanced insights they provide about themselves, their families, and health.
In her keynote address, she will highlight how to integrate various forms of art into family-focused research.
One of the key points she likes to make is family stories are important. Join her to learn why.
Day 2 Keynote: “The Family and Family Nursing in Spain”
The IFNC13 Conference Committee is pleased to announce the Keynote for Day 2 of the conference which will focus on family and family nursing in Spain. This theme was selected in response to your feedback from our previous conference that you would like to hear more about the nature of families and family nursing in our host country.
Carolina Montoro-Gurich, PhD
Professor of Human Geography
University of Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
Dr. Montoro-Gurich is the Vice Dean of Research at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Sub Director of the Institute of Sciences for the Family at the University of Navarra. Dr. Montoro-Gurich’s research focuses primarily on migration and family policies. The presentation will give IFNC13 participants a perspective on family health issues in Spain and Europe.
Cristina Garcia-Vivar, PhD, MSc, RN
Director of International Affairs of the Spanish General Council of Nurses
Associate Professor
School of Nursing, University of Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
Dr. Garcia-Vivar’s program of research focuses on teaching family nursing interventions to practicing nurses to help them to support families who are caring for a relative with chronic illness. In addition, Dr. Garcia-Vivar is a valued leader in IFNA through her roles on the Board of Directors and the IFNA Practice and Conference Committees. Her presentation will complement the keynote talk from Dr. Montoro-Gurich concerning key issues and family nursing in Spain.
Closing Keynote “We Are Family: The Science of Family Caregiving“
Janet A. Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Janet A. Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN is Professor Emerita of Nursing and formerly the Shearer Endowed
Term Chair in Healthy Community Practice and Director of the Center for Health Equity Research at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Dr. Deatrick is internationally known for her contributions
to the science of family caregiving. Deatrick’s research focuses on a family-centered approach to care
that supports family management and encompasses family strengths through provider-family
partnerships. Her work is a catalyst to the development of family nursing and to the standards of
clinical care for vulnerable families and their children. Her groundbreaking research pioneered the use of
innovative qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches to better understand how families
integrate the care of youth who have serious chronic conditions and who have survived childhood brain
tumors. She has published 125 peer-reviewed articles in 46 different journals and in 16 book chapters.
Her excellence in family nursing research was been recognized by the 2016 Claire M. Fagin
Distinguished Researcher Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, the 2007
Eastern Nursing Research Society’s Suzanne Feetham Nurse Scientist Family Research Award for Senior
Investigators, and the 2007 Distinguished Contribution to Family Nursing Research award with Kathleen
Knafl and Agatha Gallo. Her contributions to research training and clinical practice are based on her
dedication to educating and mentoring the next generation of family nurses. Her excellence in teaching
was been recognized by the 1994 Christian and Nancy Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and
the 2013 Barbara J. Lowery Doctoral Student Organization Faculty Award from the School of Nursing.
Her professional service and impact were recognized by a 1999 Achievement Award, University of
Illinois Alumni Association and by 1992 fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing.
She is a long-standing member of IFNA, served as co-chair of 12th IFNA’s conference in Odense
Denmark, and currently serves as chair of IFNA’s Resources Advancement Committee.
Dr. Sandra Eggenberger Advances Family & Societal Health and Healing
Sandra K. Eggenberger, PhD, RN, is the Director of The Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society and Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA. The mission of the Institute to advance family and societal health and healing. Recent developments at the Institute include the development of a multi-site family nursing training program for practicing nurses and partnering with families in communities through monthly community family forums to create family-in-community action projects. Institute researchers, practicing nurses, and faculty are continuously collaborating to evaluate and refine methods of teaching family nursing practice through simulation at multiple competency levels including undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. For more information, read the most recent Annual Report of the Institute and the Institute Newsletter.
Dr. Eggenberger currently serves as the Secretary of the IFNA Board of Directors. Glen and Becky Taylor, who provided the endowed fund to establish The Glen Taylor Nursing Institute, were honored for their generous and sustained financial support to IFNA and the International Family Nursing Conferences with the 2015 IFNA Distinguished Partner in Family Health Care Award. For more information please contact IFNA member, Sandra Eggenberger.