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2019 IFNA Awards: Call for Nominations
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The 2019 Call for IFNA Award nominations is now open. There are
7 awards in 4 categories. Please nominate a colleague or organization who is providing an invaluable contribution to family nursing and family health. Deadline for nomina
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January 31, 2019.
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FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE NEWS
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The IFNA Position Statements Dissemination Project is led by the IFNA Practice Committee. See new entries which feature how the IFNA Position Statements are being shared through publications, conference presentations, and other grey literature.
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FAMILY NURSING EDUCATION NEWS
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 Dr. Shelley Spurr (Canada) is an Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan. She led the development of a program titled, Caring for Kids Where They Live, which is an interprofessional pediatric clinical learning environment that brings together students from the colleges of Nursing, Dentistry, Medicine, and Kinesiology in order to build capacity and improve the standard of care.The collaboration among health professionals and students allows for effective pediatric care to be provided for children, adolescents, and their families where they live.
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FAMILY NURSING RESEARCH NEWS
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Dr. Kimberly Pyke-Grimm (USA) is a Nurse Scientist and Clinical Nurse Specialist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford, California. Studying treatment decision making in children, adolescents, and their families has been the center of her research for many years. Currently, her program of research examines adolescents and young adults with cancer with a particular emphasis on treatment decision making.
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On October 11, 2018,
IFNA Board member Dr. Birte Østergaard (Denmark), along with fellow IFNA members and board members from the Danish Family Nursing Association,
Dr. Karin Dieperink (Denmark),
Dr. Hanne Konradsen (Sweden), and
Dr. Anne Brødsgaard (Denmark) met with the Danish minister of the elderly to provide input about family nursing.
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IFNC14 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE NEWS
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Conference Hashtag: #IFNC14. Please use this hashtag in all of your social media conversations. #IFNC14 has been registered on the
Healthcare Hashtag Project website which links this conference to key words such as "nursing" and "family health" and generates metrics about the reach of the #IFNC14 hashtag. Check this
website to see who are "The influencers of #IFNC14".
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IFNA Conference Committee is pleased to announce a robust response to the IFNC14 Call for Abstracts with a total number of
350 abstract submissions. Submissions came from a broad spectrum of countries as indicated by the following country count: USA: 141; Brazil: 38; Japan: 35; Canada: 23; Denmark: 14; Switzerland: 12; Australia: 10; Iceland: 10; United Kingdom: 9; Finland: 8; Spain: 8; China: 7; Taiwan: 5; Thailand: 5; Israel: 3; Netherlands: 3; Portugal: 3; South Africa: 3; Germany: 2; Iran, Islamic Republic of: 2; New Zealand: 2; Norway: 2; Austria: 1; Colombia: 1; Ireland: 1; Mexico: 1; Sweden: 1
The IFNA Conference Committee thank and applaud all submitters and the country liaisons for encouraging submissions. The review process is in motion. Notification of decision is anticipated by Friday, January 25, 2019.
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IFNA FAMILY NURSING COMMUNITY NEWS
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For a list of all upcoming family nursing and family health conferences.
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Please share the IFNA Position Statements
as widely as possible. Please remember to cite them in your publications, course outlines, and conference presentations. Please share them with students, colleagues, and other professional associations you belong to. Post them on social media: Social media toolkits are available for each IFNA Position Statement. Use hashtag #IFNAPosition in your social media conversations.
Please use the following hashtags in your social media conversations:
@IFNAorg,
#IFNC14,
#familynursing, #familyhealth,
#familyhealing, #IFNAPosition
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CONNECTION I CONVERSATION I COMMUNITY
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IFNA mourns the loss of
Dr. Kathryn Hoehn Anderson (USA) who served as the IFNA Practice Committee co-chair from 2010-2018. Kathryn's family has requested that IFNA create the
