The White Rose University Consortium between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York was created in 1997 to encourage collaboration in research, enterprise, innovation, and learning and teaching. IFNA member, Dr. Veronica Swallow (UK) at the University of Leeds and her colleagues from the University of York and the University of Sheffield recently received funding for a 12 month project to address multidisciplinary, family-focused care across the life-span.

A small group of 30 family nursing scholars, including invited family nursing leaders Dr. Kathleen Knafl and Dr. Marcia Van Riper (USA), Dr. Birte Østergaard (Denmark), Dr. Linda Shields (Australia), along with Dr. Veronica Swallow and several other IFNA members, met at the University of Leeds on November 7 and 8, 2016 for a workshop. The participants also included graduate students, patients, and family caregivers from the UK. The workshop, combined with the literature review that is underway, will significantly shape future collaborative research grant applications that are planned by the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York.

A Storify summary of the tweets generated by participants at the White Rose Collaboration workshop was collated by graduate student and IFNA member, Simon Stones (UK).

Dr. Li-Chi Chiang (Taiwan) is conducting family nursing knowledge transfer research in which critical care nurses are learning to offer family nursing interventions to families of patients in ICU. [Read more]

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