Dr Anne Hofmeyer

Welcome to my web page. I hold Adjunct Appointments as Senior Research Fellow with the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre and Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia. I am a Visiting Professor, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. Having retired from the University of South Australia in 2018, I continue to work on a variety of projects, many of which focus on writing about empathy, intellectual humility, knowledge translation, self-compassion, and empathic distress fatigue. 

• Hofmeyer, A. & Taylor, R. (2020). Strategies and resources for nurse leaders to use to lead with empathy and prudence so they understand and address sources of anxiety among nurses practicing in the era of COVID-19. Journal of Clinical Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15520
• Hofmeyer, A., Kennedy, K. & Taylor, R. (2020). Contesting the term ‘compassion fatigue’: Integrating findings from social neuroscience and self-care research. Collegian, 27(2), 232-237. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2019.07.00
• Hofmeyer, A., Taylor, R. & Kennedy, K. (2020). Fostering compassion and reducing burnout: How can health system leaders respond in the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond? Nurse Education Today, 94(11),104502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104502
• Hofmeyer, A., Taylor, R. & Kennedy, K. (2020). Knowledge for nurses to better care for themselves so they can better care for others during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Nurse Education Today, 94(11),104503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104503
• Taylor, R., Thomas-Gregory, A. & Hofmeyer, A. (2020). Teaching empathy and resilience to undergraduate nursing students: A call to action in the context of Covid-19. Nurse Education Today, 94(11),104524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104524

I was a senior tenured academic in Clinical and Health Services, UniSA and served as Program Director: Higher Degrees by Research. Previously, I served as Associate Professor at the Australian Catholic University and Deputy Director of the Australian Catholic University/St Vincent’s & Mercy Private Hospital ‘Nursing Research Unit’ in Melbourne, Australia. Earlier, I served as Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean, BScN Collaborative Program, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada.

I hold a PhD and a Masters Degree in Primary Health Care (palliative care specialty) from Flinders University, Australia. Following completion of my PhD in 2002, I was recruited to the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada in 2003. In 2004, I completed an Intensive Bioethics Course at the Joseph P. & Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC. In 2005, I was awarded a prestigious two–year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Knowledge Translation funded by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) & Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) CADRE Program at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada. 

At UniSA, I taught evidence-based practice, knowledge translation, palliative care, and qualitative research in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programs. I supervised honours and higher degree/doctoral students.

I had disciplinary and interdisciplinary research collaborations in Australia, UK, South Africa, USA, and Canada; in sum attracting over $1.7 million in competitive, collaborative funding. I co-presented research findings at national and international conferences and published articles, book chapters for Oxford University Press (OUP) and Elsevier, and co-edited textbooks for OUP.

I have a longstanding interest in relational ethics, palliative care, compassion, caregiving, leadership, work cultures, and teamwork. I investigated the degree to which social processes (social capital) facilitate or hinder the exchange of knowledge and resources in teams to promote productivity and better outcomes for all. I led a funded study with local and international researchers  to investigate the degree to which compassion can be taught to undergraduate nursing students.

I was appointed to serve as Chair of The Research and Scholarship Advisory Council (RSAC), Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) from 2015-2017, having served as a member of the RSAC from 2012-2015. Sigma is the second-largest global nursing organisation with approximately 135,000 members. I was invited to participate in the Global Advisory Panel on the Future of Nursing (GAPFON) Pan Pacific meeting in Seoul, South Korea in June 2015.  I served on the International Advisory Committee for the International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences (Elsevier) and is a reviewer for nursing and allied health journals. I was a ‘Member Scholar Academic’ at The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM), Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Canada.

Prior to my academic career, I had a successful career in clinical healthcare. I served in a range of administrative, teaching and clinical nursing roles. I had extensive clinical experience in radiation oncology; aged care; community and district nursing (Royal District Nursing Service); sole nurse practitioner in a primary health care clinic, and over 15 years in hospice & palliative and supportive care. In 1990, I  was commissioned to lead the establishment of a Hospice and Palliative Care Unit and community palliative care service in a tertiary hospital in South Australia.

Australian College of Nursing,Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia,

Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (Xi Omicron),

International Academic Nursing Alliance (IANA),International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care ,

Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, USA,

St James Ethics Centre, Sydney, Australia.,

Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Network (AIPPEN)

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University of SA

• Master Primary Health Care Flinders University of SA