Dr. Megan Aston is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University School of Nursing in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where she teaches Family and Community Health Nursing, and Qualitative Health Research. Her passion and expertise is in Family Health Nursing with a focus on maternal, infant and child health. She has conducted numerous research studies examining therapeutic relationships between nurses and families in the community as well as in the hospital. She worked as a public health nurse for many years and now studies postpartum early home visiting by public health nurses with new mothers. She has also focused on 1) queer women’s birthing experiences in rural Nova Scotia; 2) hospital experiences of children with intellectual disabilities, their parents and nurses who take care of them; 3) bereavement care by nurses with families whose child has died; and 4) bereavement care by Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) nurses in the community with families of all ages. She uses feminist poststructuralism to guide her research which includes personal, social, and institutional constructions of the practices of nurses and clients. Read more about her work and publications at http://www.dal.ca/faculty/healthprofessions/nursing/faculty-staff/halifax-faculty/megan-aston.html. For more information, contact IFNA member Megan Aston: [email protected]
