Goal 1

Fostering and promoting family-focused nursing in all fields of nursing, midwifery and health visiting in the UK and Ireland

Goal 2

Acting as a unifying force and voice for family-focused nursing in all fields of nursing, midwifery and health visiting

Goal 3

Enabling UK and Irish nurses, midwives and health visitors to work in partnership with families, recognising the family unit as a legitimate recipient of nursing care

Goal 4

Learning from family nurses, midwives and health visitors in other global regions

Welcome to the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) – UK and Ireland Chapter 

Membership of the Chapter is free and is open to any nurse, midwife or health visitor/public health nurse who is working in: practice, education or research, in the UK and Ireland, and who is interested in joining a growing community of family nurses Membership is also free and open to academics and researchers working in fields related to family nursing, as well as to patients, caregivers and family members interested in promoting family-focused care.

Whenever we say ‘nurses’, we are referring to ‘nurses, midwives and health visitors/public health nurses’.

Through our various IFNA – UK and Ireland Chapter activities, we are striving to develop, actively promote, and sustain a discourse around approaches to family nursing that are relevant in the UK and Ireland. This website aims to:

• Bring together a set of resources that can help facilitate positive attitudes towards family nursing;
• Promote and disseminate family nursing research findings;
• Share evidence-based family-nursing research, practice, education and policy resources to a wide audience of nurses, other healthcare professionals and researchers.

We are very interested in working with nurses and families in the UK and Ireland to develop common goals that will help the Chapter to:

• Foster and promote family-focused nursing across the life course in the UK and Ireland;
• Act as a unifying force and voice for family-focused nursing, midwifery and health visiting/public health nursing;
• Enable UK and Irish nurses to recognise the family unit as a legitimate recipient of nursing care, and work in partnership with families;
• Learn from family nurses in other global regions.

If you are interested in joining us, click here to find out more! Membership to the chapter is currently free of charge.

We are partnered with the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA)

We became the first local chapter of the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) in 2017. IFNA embraces a compassionate family focus on health, social justice, human dignity and respect for all, as shown by the core values, vision, and mission of IFNA. You can find out more about our partner organisation by visiting their website.