The first International Family Nursing Conference was hosted in June 1988 by the University of Calgary, Faculty of Nursing under the leadership of Dr. Lorraine M. Wright. Twenty-one years later, the University of Iceland successfully hosted the 9th International Family Nursing Conference in Reykjavik in June 2009. Please go to the Iceland conference website to see the program and pictures from this wonderful conference.
Copies of Conference Final Program and Book of Abstracts for the International Family Nursing Conferences are available for free public access through DSpace, University of Calgary Library, Family Nursing Unit Collection under Proceedings
Here is a list of the past and future International Family Nursing Conferences:
1988 – 1st International Family Nursing Conference – Calgary Alberta, Canada, May
24-27, 1988 (Hosted by Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary; Chairperson: Lorraine M. Wright, RN, PhD) https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/45216/1/FNU_ConfProc_1988.pdf
A book of selected papers was published from the 1st International Family Nursing Conference: Bell, J.M., Watson, W.L., & Wright, L.M. (Eds.). (1990). The cutting edge of family nursing. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Family Nursing Unit Publications.
1991 – 2nd International Family Nursing Conference – Portland, Oregon, USA
(Hosted by a consortium of universities including Oregon Health Sciences University, University of Washington, University of California, San Francisco, and University of Montana) https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/47447
A book of selected papers was published from the 2nd International Family Nursing Conference: Feetham, S.L., Meister, S.B., Bell, J.M., & Gilliss, C.L. (Eds.). (1993). The nursing of families: Theory/research/education/practice. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
1994 – 3rd International Family Nursing Conference – Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
May 25-28, 1994 (Hosted by McGill University, School of Nursing and University of Montreal, Faculte des sciences infirmieres; Co-chairpersons: Fabie Duhamel, RN, PhD and Laurie Gottlieb, RN, PhD) https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/47448
1997 – 4th International Family Nursing Conference – Valdivia, Chile, November 11-
14, 1997 (Hosted by Universidad Austral de Chile; Chairperson: Dr. Luz Angelica Munoz) https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/47449
2000 – 5th International Family Nursing Conference, “Family Nursing for the 21st
Century”, Chicago, Illinois, USA, June 19-22, 2000 (Hosted by University of Illnois at Chicago; Co-chairpersons: Kathleen Knafl, PhD, and Suzanne Feetham, RN, PhD) https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/47258/3/FNU_Chicago_2000.pdf
2003 – 6th International Family Nursing Conference – Gaborone, Botswana, Africa
(Hosted by University of Botswana; Secretariat: Dintle Mogobe, RN, PhD and Sheila Shaibu, RN, PhD) (CANCELLED)
2005 – 7th International Family Nursing Conference, “Opening Spaces: Inviting
Dialogue in Family Nursing”, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, June 1-4, 2005 (Hosted by School of Nursing, University of Victoria and School of Nursing, University of British Columbia; Chairperson: Virginia E. Hayes, RN, PhD) https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/46332/3/7FNUConf_2005.pdf
2007 – 8th International Family Nursing Conference, “Healing Families, Healing
Communities: New Innovations in Practice, Education, and Research”, Bangkok, Thailand, June 4-7, 2007 (Hosted by Faculty of Nursing, Burapha University; Chairperson: Suntharawadee Theinpichet, RN, PhD) https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/46331/1/8FNUConf_2007.pdf
2009 – 9th International Family Nursing Conference, “From Insights to Intervention:
The Cutting Edge of Family Nursing” , Reykjavik, Iceland, June 2-5, 2009, Website: http://www.ifnc2009.com (Hosted by Faculty of Nursing, University of Iceland; Chairperson: Erla Kolbrun Svavarsdottir, RN, PhD)
2011 – 10th International Family Nursing Conference, “Making Family Nursing
Visible: From Knowledge Building to Knowledge Translation” – Kyoto, Japan, June 25-27, 2011, Website: http://www.ifnc2011.org (Hosted by Japanese Association for Research in Family Nursing; Chairperson: Michiko Moriyama, RN, PhD)