About the author

By Judy Craft, BAppSc (Hons), PhD, Lecturer in Medical Sciences at Queensland University of Technology, QLD; Christopher Gordon, RN, MExSc, PhD, Senior Lecturer Faculty of Medicine, Health and Health Science, Macquarie University.; Sue E. Huether, MS, PhD, Professor Emeritus, College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Kathryn L. McCance, MS, PhD, Professor, College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Valentina L. Brashers, MD, FACP, FNAP, Professor of Nursing and Woodard Clinical Scholar,Attending Physician in Internal Medicine,Director, Center for ASPIRE University of Virginia