The IFNA Family Nursing Research Committee has created three new workgroups. In November 2014, 14 family nurse researchers from 8 countries met. Potential areas for future work include: measure development and testing (including an international family functioning measure), family management and health outcomes, telehealth, multiculturalism and its influence on family health and family nursing, and family resilience in the face of severe illness or injury. [Read more] 

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The 12th International Family Nursing Conference, sponsored by IFNA, will be held in Odense, Denmark, August 18-21, 2015. 

IFNA member response to the Call for Abstracts has been nothing short of tremendous and a credit to your advocacy for family nursing practice, teaching, and research: 514 abstracts were received from 36 countries.  

The Conference Planning Committee would like to thank the IFNA community including the Research Committee (and co-chairs Helene Moriarty, USA and June Horowitz, USA) for their untiring work encouraging submission of abstracts and recruiting reviewers. We would also like to highlight the work of the Country Liaison subgroup formed within the Conference Planning Committee for all their efforts in recruiting abstracts for this conference. Wendy Looman, USA, originated the Country Liaison role for the 11th International Family Nursing Conference. For the 12th International Family Nursing Conference in 2015, we significantly expanded the scope and activities of this group with the leadership of Jane Lassetter, USA, Veronica Swallow, United Kingdom, and Regina Bousso, Brazil.