Justus Akinbayo Akinsanya

December 31, 1936 (age 68)

Lagos, Nigeria

Born in Okun-Owa, Ijebu, Nigeria (near Lagos), Akinsanya qualified in 1960 in general nursing, with a specialty in tuberculosis cases. In 1967 he did post-registration courses in orthopaedic, dermatological and psychiatric nursing He entered the University of London where he obtained a Bachelor of Science Akinsanya developed the Akinsanya model of bionursing (1985), which he defined as clinical nursing that uses in practice the principles of natural sciences such as biology. He held positions as a teacher, administrator and researcher, including being a lecturer at the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu from 1976 until 1977, before becoming Reader and later Professor and Head of the Health Care Research Unit at the Dorset Institute, now Bournemouth University, from 1985 until 1989. He was made an Emeritus Professor on retirement in 1996, and then devoted his time to the charitable activities of Disability Croydon, Nurses Fund for Nurses and the Nigerian Council of Elders, and served as a local education authority (LEA) governor of two schools in Croydon. He had been involved in the Nursing Council of Nigeria and he was a fellow of the United Kingdom Royal College of Nursing (FRCN). He died in London at the age of 68 after contracting an infection at the International Council of Nurses conference in Taiwan some months earlier.

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Honours) degree in Human Biology followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

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Born in Okun-Owa, Ijebu, Nigeria (near Lagos), Akinsanya qualified in 1960 in general nursing, with a specialty in tuberculosis cases. In 1967 he did post-registration courses in orthopaedic, dermatological and psychiatric nursing He entered the University of London where he obtained a Bachelor of Science

Akinsanya developed the Akinsanya model of bionursing (1985), which he defined as clinical nursing that uses in practice the principles of natural sciences such as biology.

He held positions as a teacher, administrator and researcher, including being a lecturer at the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu from 1976 until 1977, before becoming Reader and later Professor and Head of the Health Care Research Unit at the Dorset Institute, now Bournemouth University, from 1985 until 1989. He was made an Emeritus Professor on retirement in 1996, and then devoted his time to the charitable activities of Disability Croydon, Nurses Fund for Nurses and the Nigerian Council of Elders, and served as a local education authority (LEA) governor of two schools in Croydon.

He had been involved in the Nursing Council of Nigeria and he was a fellow of the United Kingdom Royal College of Nursing (FRCN). He died in London at the age of 68 after contracting an infection at the International Council of Nurses conference in Taiwan some months earlier.

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