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Congratulations to the 2015 IFNA Award Recipients!
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20 nominations from 8 countries were received for the first-ever IFNA Awards. Thank you to all who participated in the nomination process. Congratulations to the recipients and nominees of the 2015 IFNA Awards and who will be recognized at the 12th International Family Nursing Conference in Denmark in August. Excellence in Family Nursing Award Eva Benzein, Sweden; nominated by Britt-Inger Saveman, Sweden Kathleen Knafl, USA; nominated by Kit Chesla, USA Nancy Moules, Canada; nominated by Lorraine Wright, Canada Innovative Contribution to Family Nursing Award Cristina Garcia-Vivar, Spain; nominated by Barbara Voltelen, Denmark Naohiro Hohashi, Japan; nominated by Kazuko Ishigaki, Japan Birte Ostergaard, Denmark; nominated by Hanne Konradsen, Denmark Distinguished Partner in Family Health Care Award Glen and Becky Taylor, USA; nominated by Sandra Eggenberger, USA Rising Star in Family Nursing Award Carina Persson, Sweden; nominated by Britt-Inger Saveman, Sweden [Read more] |
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 Congratulations to Dr. Maureen Leahey, Canada, who received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA) for her outstanding leadership in co-creating and disseminating knowledge about caring practices with families. [Read more]
Dr. Fabie Duhamel, Canada
, recently published the 3rd edition of her edited French language family nursing textbook:
La sant? et la famille: Une approche syst?mique en soins infermiers [Health and Family: A Systems Approach in Nursing]. [Read more]
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| FAMILY NURSING EDUCATION NEWS |
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 IFNA has a new YouTube channel for the purpose of creating a repository of archived videos specific to family nursing education, practice and research. It is exciting to have a Family Nursing presence on YouTube, and the IFNA Communications Committee is planning to add to this resource over time. [Read more]
For more IFNA Education News
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FAMILY NURSING RESEARCH NEWS
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 Congratulations to
Dr. Susan Sullivan-Bolyai, USA,
the 2015 recipient of the Suzanne Feetham Nurse Scientist Family Research Award, Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) [Read more]
The IFNA Research Committee invites all interested IFNA members to join us for a meeting at the upcoming 12th International Family Nursing Conference in Odense, Denmark, August 18-21, 2015. During the conference, we will have the opportunity to meet in person to report on activities, to hear from you, and to engage you in planning for the coming year. Please bring your ideas for our committee and think about how you would like to get involved. Let's take this occasion to forge relationships that we can then extend electronically to collaborate across our geographic borders!
For more IFNA Research News
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| 12th International Family Nursing Conference |
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Early conference registration ends July 1, 2015. The Conference Brochure has now been posted. Remember, if you have already registered, it's not too late to add a pre-conference workshop. The IFNA website has many helpful resources to support conference planning, including the archived webinar "Tweet, Post, and Chat: Maximizing Your Conference Experience through the Use of Social Media"; our first-time-ever raffle, and information about the host city of Odense. Later in July, the Conference Planning Committee will be providing additional tips about preparing for your trip to Denmark.
Have you checked out Guidebook? It is loaded with helpful information and links to travel tips, Twitter, LinkedIn, pre-conferences, keynote speakers, country liaisons, etc. If you have questions about Guidebook, you can watch the webinar and video demonstrations on the IFNA website.
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IFNA FAMILY NURSING COMMUNITY NEWS
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Current IFNA membership: 461 members from 35 countries.
Please consider use the following hashtags in your social media conversations:
#familynursing, #IFNAorg, #IFNC12
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CONNECTION I CONVERSATION I COMMUNITY
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