14th International Family Nursing Conference

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With special excitement and enthusiasm, and on behalf of the IFNA Board of Directors and the IFNC14 Conference Planning Committee, we look forward to hosting you at the 14th International Family Nursing Conference August 13 -16, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., USA . We gratefully acknowledge the support of Linda B. Talley, RN, MS, NE-BC, Vice President and Chief Nurse Officer at Children’s National Health System (Children’s National), and the regional academic and service partners of Children’s National, in developing this venue plan.

The IFNC14 Conference Planning Committee is busy preparing for the conference. IFNC14 promises to be exciting given the quality contributions that members of the International Family Nursing Association are making around the world. Pamela Hinds, PhD, RN, FAAN will serve as our local representative on the Conference Planning Committee and will coordinate planning assistance from professionals from local health care and academic institutions.

IFNC14 attendees will have the opportunity to build knowledge about family-related issues. We hope to use the occasion of meeting in the city of the United States’ national government at this important time to strategize and examine family health policy with an international lens. Our collective insights can inform initiatives of IFNA and members regarding their national constituencies.

We urge you to plan to share family health, family care, and family nursing wisdom with international colleagues in August 2019 and stay tuned for further details about IFNC14, August 14 -16 and the planned pre-conferences on August 13.

The objectives for the conference are:

Education

1. To emphasize model approaches for strengthening nursing education in social determinants of family health.
2. To highlight service-learning in partnership with the family and community as an approach to enhancing family health around the globe.
3. To promote assessment and measurement of family nursing outcomes relevant to social determinants of health at all levels of nursing education.

Practice

1. To identify strategies for family nursing practice uniquely considering social determinants such as poverty, hunger, homelessness, stigma, and racism across the globe.
2. To highlight family nursing practice innovations and models that consider social determinants of family health.
3. To examine practice implications of considering social determinants of family health from an international perspective.

Research

1. To identify and describe disparities influencing family health or family health care.
2. To provide a forum for dialogue around the multifactorial determinants of family health disparities facing family researchers worldwide.
3. To highlight innovative design and testing of targeted family interventions, including approaches to enhance family engagement in research design and implementation, the use of community-based participatory research approaches, and the use of emerging technologies.

Policy/Leadership

1. To examine the role of formal structures and informal social systems influencing contemporary social determinants of family health.
2. To identify strategies for increasing family nurses’ knowledge and advocacy for policies and programs that support family health at the local, national, and international level.
3. To highlight opportunities for encouraging family nurses to take active roles in health care policy and health care leadership in support of family health and family care worldwide.

Cancellation / Refund Policy
Registrants shall give written notice of cancellation to amy@internationalfamilynursing.org.  There is a $50.00 administrative fee for cancellations if notice is received by July 23.   As of July 24, no refunds will be issued.