Dr. Naohiro Hohashi is a Professor of Health Care Nursing and Department Director, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences, Japan. He served on the IFNA Board of Directors from 2010-2014. He has been selected as a “Transcultural Nursing Scholar” and will be honoured at the 40th annual meeting of the Transcultural Nursing Society in October 2014. Dr. Hohashi developed the Concentric Sphere Family Environment Model and has conducted comparative research on how the family is affected by culture and values in Japan, Hong Kong and North America. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Japanese Association for Research in Family Nursing (JARFN), the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transcultural Nursing and Editor of the Japan Journal of Nursing Science. For more information, contact IFNA member Naohiro Hohashi: [email protected]
Dr. Petra Brysiewicz Leads the Family Support Care Research Group, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dr. Petra Brysiewicz, PhD, is a Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing & Public Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her scholarly work focuses on advancing the development of emergency care in South Africa and across the continent of Africa. Her program of research includes the psychosocial implications of violence and injury. Dr. Brysiewicz leads the Family Support Care Research Group developed with her colleagues Dr. B. Bhengu and Dr. Chipps. She is the Principal Investigator of a project which aims to develop an in-hospital psychosocial intervention for families of critically ill trauma patients who have been admitted to an Intensive Care Unit. For more information, contact IFNA member Petra Brysiewicz: [email protected]
Family Nursing Externship, Switzerland: 23 participants from 3 countries
Dr. Lorraine Wright, Canada, and Dr. Janice M. Bell, Canada, offered an invited 4-day Family Nursing Externship workshop for advanced practice to 23 nurses from 3 countries (Switzerland, Austria, Italy) in June 2014. Sponsored by Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Nursing, the Family Nursing Externship offered ideas about advanced practice with families focused on the Illness Beliefs Model and the Trinity Model. A live family interview with a Swiss family experiencing illness was offered by Dr. Lorraine Wright and a reflecting team intervention was moderated by Dr. Janice Bell. Thanks to Barbara Preusse Bleuler for organizing and hosting this event which focused on increasing the competence and confidence of practicing nurses to offer family nursing interventions to families. For more information, contact IFNA members, Lorraine Wright: [email protected] or Janice M. Bell: [email protected]
Dr. Junko Honda Focuses on Family Research and Family Assessment in Child-Rearing Families
Dr. Junko Honda is currently an Associate Professor, Child Health Nursing, College of Nursing Art and Science, University of Hyogo, Japan. She teaches family nursing in an Advanced Nurse Practitioner program at the graduate level to students in pediatric nursing, home nursing, adult care/chronic illness, and mental health. Her research is focused on developing an e-learning tool for the education of generalist family nursing practice and she is also developing a scale to examine family nursing competency.
Dr. Honda currently serves as a member of the IFNA Board of Directors (2020-2022). For more information, contact IFNA member Junko Honda.
Twitter: @Junko_H
Dr. Megan Aston Focuses on Family Health Nursing with an Emphasis on Maternal, Infant and Child Health
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]
