International Nurses Day, May 12 is a worldwide celebration of Nursing on the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. In 2022, the theme for International Nurses Day is Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Invest in nursing and respect rights to secure…
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Join us for a Family Externship in Switzerland
Dr. Lorraine Wright and I are pleased to announce that we have accepted an invitation to offer a 4-day Family Externship workshop at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) September 8-10, 2025 Please join us. Registration information is available here: https://janicembell.com/family-externshi…tember-8-10-2025/…
25th Anniversary of the Journal of Family Nursing
“The days are long, but the years are short.” ~ Gretchen Rubin "The first issue of the Journal of Family Nursing (JFN), owned SAGE Publishing, was launched in February 1995. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of this journal…
Externship Workshop: Advanced Family Nursing Practice, October 2020
Family Systems Care: Special Presentation to an audience of health care professionals interested in improving their knowledge and skills in working with families: Winterthur, Switzerland, May 2018 Lorraine Wright and I are very excited to offer our 4-day signature…
My Manifesto: Weaving and Connecting
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay Definition: "A manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government" (Wickipedia). I am a registered nurse and a psychologist. My greatest…
History of the International Family Nursing Conferences
First International Family Nursing Conference Participants with Dr. Lorraine Wright and Dr. Maureen Leahey (1988) The First International Family Nursing Conference was hosted in May 1988 by the University of Calgary, Faculty of Nursing and chaired by Dr. Lorraine M.…
Join the #FamilyNursing #FamilyHealth Conversation on Twitter
There is a growing conversation happening on Twitter within my family nursing community by #familynursing and #familyhealth scholars, practitioners, advocates, and organizations. Here is a list of of those who are currently active on Twitter (list updated (March 2020). I urge you to harness…
Crafting a Persuasive Argument: Family-Level Relational Interventions with Families Experiencing Illness
I'm currently doing some writing about the importance of family interventions in illness. I would like to offer some new integrative reviews and my favorite references (the oldies but goodies) that provide a convincing argument for family-level relational interventions that…
Making Ideas “Stick”: The 15-Minute Family Interview
I've been thinking a lot about the struggle we have to make ideas "stick". In my work of creating and disseminating family nursing knowledge, I invite nurses to change their beliefs and behavior about families and "get" the benefits that…
Family-Focused Clinical Scholarship
What is clinical scholarship, you ask? It is a form of knowledge creation that focuses on being immersed in clinical practice, observing practice, analyzing practice, and synthesizing what you have learned from practice (Bell, 2003; Diers, 1995). It is not…