Petra Brysiewicz is a full professor of Nursing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa and Honorary Full professor: University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has worked with research and education of nurses in South Africa and Africa for over 28 years, in acute/emergency care. Petra is the Editor-in-Chief of International Emergency Nursing journal and a founding member and current director of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine. She is the immediate past president of the Academy of Nursing of South Africa, a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the current president of the International Family Nursing Association.