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Deadline for 2015 IFNA Award Nominations extended to May 15, 2015
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 The new 2015 IFNA Awards celebrate IFNA members and "distinguished partners" who are providing outstanding contributions to transform health for families worldwide and advance the nursing of families. Nine nominations were received for the April 1 deadline. The IFNA Awards Committee is looking for more geographic diversity in the nominations. Please nominate an outstanding colleague today from our international family nursing community [Read more]
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| FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE NEWS |
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Here is a sample photo of "FAMILY NURSING IN ACTION, USA" submitted by
Janet A. Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN (USA), Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Director for the Center for Health Equity Research, and Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community Practices.
[Learn more]
Family Nursing in Action
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| FAMILY NURSING EDUCATION NEWS |
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Most likely you are making your travel and hotel arrangements for the 12th International Family Nursing Conference in August 2015. Did you know, right now you can get directly connected to the conference and conference attendees by using the "Guidebook" app. Information about the conference is currently available on Guidebook, and is updated regularly [Learn more].
View the FREE Archived webinar recently offered by the IFNA Communications Committee. "Tweet, Post & Chat: Maximizing your Conference (IFNC12) Experience Through the Use of Social Media".
For more IFNA Education News
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FAMILY NURSING RESEARCH NEWS
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The International Research Collaboration Subcommittee of the IFNA Research Committee is working towards defining "family nursing" from a cross-continent, contemporary perspective. The subcommittee is comprised of nurses from 13 countries across 6 continents. IFNA sponsored conference calls are being held monthly to complete this work. Preliminary results will be shared with participants through a paper presented at 12th International Family Nursing Conference in August 2015.
For more IFNA Research News
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| 12th International Family Nursing Conference |
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The 12th International Family Nursing Conference, sponsored by IFNA, will be held in Odense, Denmark, August 18-21, 2015.
For the first time at an International Family Nursing Conference, the IFNA Conference Committee is planning to hold a raffle. The Committee anticipates that this activity will be a fun opportunity to be interactive, enhance the international flavor of the conference, and provide a fund raiser [Read more]
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IFNA FAMILY NURSING COMMUNITY NEWS
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Current IFNA membership: 378 members from 32 countries.
Update from family nursing colleague,
Dr. Marilyn M. Friedman, editor and author of 5 editions of "
Family Nursing: Research, Theory, & Practice". She is still involved with Cal State University where she taught and is active in the Emeriti Association. She says, "I have really enjoyed retirement". She remarried after the death of her husband in 2002 and is enjoying traveling, volunteering, and some educational planning in the community. Dr. Friedman was honored with a Distinguished Contribution to Family Nursing Award in 2005.
Do you know that you have access to over 350 IFNA members from around the world with a click of a button. Any IFNA Member can post to the listserv. The listserv can be accessed by sending an email to
international-family-nursing-association@googlegroups.com. When sending a message, please be sure to include your personal contact information so that members can respond to you directly. Please do not "reply all" to listserv messages, doing so often causes multiple, unnecessary, emails to ALL members.
Please consider using the following hashtags in your social media conversations:
#familynursing, #IFNAorg, #IFNC12
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