Staff Achievements
In
the School of Nursing & Midwifery many of our staff are involved in
research grants, media expertise & receive commendations for their
outstanding work. This page notes the recent achievements that we are
proud to say are products of our school.
Professional Staff Achievements
At the 2007 Vice Chancellor awards for professional staff Jackie Cornell was the recipient of an individual VC award and Anna Van Gasteren, Zoe Blackman, Jessica Lepore and Tim Brook-Smith (Undergraduate team) were the recipients of a VC team award. At the ceremony the VC spoke of our school as an exemplar of staff working together and individually to reach levels of excellence and quality that results in good experiences for our students.
Academic Staff Noted Achievements & Research
Dr Kate Andre, Program Director - Stage 3 of Undergraduate Programs, and Senior Lecturer Dr Marie Heartfield in March 2007 published:
Professional Portfolios - evidence of competency for nurses and midwives (Churchill Livingstone, Sydney)
Industry feedback has been "This is a real achievement and will offer an important and practical new dimension to the experience of student nurses and midwives, through to those qualified and working in these fields. We have had great interest from the academic community teaching in the universities, colleges of TAFE and the private providers."
Click here to see information flyer
Pam Alde (PhD candidate - Nursing & Midwifery) has won a $4,000 scholarship under the RCNA's Aged Care Nursing Scholarship Scheme towards the cost of her doctoral research activities.
Prof Philip Darbyshire, have received an ARC grant for research into Childhood obesity, physical activity and wellbeing: Discovering the influence of children's understandings and experiences of places, spaces and communities, 2005-2008 valued at $270,000
Prof Philip Darbyshire, A/Prof Eimear & have received funding from ANCMHN Bristol Myers Squibb to undertake An investigation into factors associated with psychiatric medication non-compliance behaviour in young people, valued at $15,000
Prof Philip Darbyshire, W Schiller, C MacDougall, J Fereday & D Kay have received a grant from Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation 2006-2007 $38,000 Investigating physical activity patterns of schoolchildren with chronic illness: Bringing children’s voices into research, policy and practice.
Congratulations to Roger Levi (Nursing & Midwifery) who has just been accepted as a Member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing. Membership is by invitation to baccalaureate and graduate nursing students who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, and to nurse leaders exhibiting exceptional achievements in nursing. Roger will be officially inducted into the Society next year in Sydney.
A/Prof Nicholas Procter (Nursing and Midwifery) has been appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Health Sciences at RMIT University.
A/Prof Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Stephen Harding and Lynne Barnes (Nursing & Midwifery) are currently involved in a consultancy project for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing in the authorship of a monograph on Delerium, valued at approximately $50,000
Prof Simon Stewart (Nursing & Midwifery) has been invited to join an internationally renowned team of researchers at Yale University to undertake an NIH-funded randomised study of interactive monitoring of patients with heart failure in the USA.
Assoc Prof Nicholas Procter (Nursing and Midwifery) who has received $33,000 funding from the Department of Health to undertake an evaluation the South Eastern Australia Regional Mental Health Services.
Assoc Prof Nicholas Procter and Assoc Prof Eimear Muir-Cochrane who have both been awarded the Bristol Myers Squibb Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses 2005 Research Award. This is an internationally competitive award and comes with a $15,000 grant.
Also congratulations to Assoc Prof Nicholas Procter and Prof Simon Stewart from the School of Nursing & Midwifery who are co-researchers on ARC Linkage Grants administered through the University of Adelaide (http://www.sapo.org.au/opin/opin2721.html) and the University of Queensland respectively.
Teaching & Learning
The School of Nursing and Midwifery has donated two out of service CPR dolls to the Bethesda Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with whom we have an MOU.
Midwifery students (Kate Taylor and Elaine Shultz) will be spending three weeks in Cambodia at the end of November undertaking cataract surgery. Fundraising by students has raised $1100 - enough to pay for 10 cataract eye surgeries.
Assoc Prof Eimear Muir Cochrane has delivered education sessions in the area of acute in-patient mental health care across Tasmania in a one week road show during June. She was contracted by the Tasmanian State-wide Mental Health Services.
People
Prof Simon Stewart (Nursing & Midwifery):
- and his colleague Professor David Thompson at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have been invited to edit an international book on Case Management in Cardiac Disease by Blackwell Publishing (UK).
- is convening the 2nd Heart Failure Nurses Conference in Sydney in March, 2006 after raising external sponsorship from the pharmaceutical industry to support the attendance of 150 nurses from throughout Australia and New Zealand.
- has undertaken an academic visit to the Nethersole School of Nursing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as their inaugural Visiting Professor.
- has been invited to be an Associate Editor of the journal, International Journal of Cardiology (Impact Factor 2.1)
Professor Philip Darbyshire has been appointed Visiting Professor to the School of Health Sciences at the University of Swansea, UK from 2006-2011.
Professor Simon Stewart:
- Delivered an invited lecture on The State of Art of Multidisciplinary Programs of Care in Heart Failure Management at the European Society of Cardiology Scientific Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden in September.
- has been invited to give a number of keynote and scientific lectures at the following international conferences in 2006:
- Japanese Cardiac Society Meeting (Japan, March 2006)
- Cardiovascular Disease in the 21st Century: Shaping the Future (Sydney, March 2006)
- European Society of Cardiology's 2006 Heart Failure Spring Meeting (Finland, June 2006)
A/Prof Nicholas Procter has been interviewed by ABC Radio, SBS Radio News and SBS Television on mental health service delivery linked to revelations that nearly 900 people have tried to harm themselves in immigration detention over the past three years. A combined transcript has been created and will be published in the international journal Migration Letters later this year.
Charmaine Hockley (Nursing & Midwifery) is an invited speaker at the Bullying and Harassment. South Australian Perioperative Nurses Association (SAPNA) State Conference entitled "What's the point?" West Lakes, South Australia, 4-5 November
A/Prof Eimear Muir-Cochrane (with Tim Wand) co-authored the annual monograph entitled Risk Management in Mental Health for the ANZCMHN Inc which was launched at the 32nd International Conference.
Eimear Muir-Cochrane is a visiting professor at City University, London in December this year hosted by Professor Len Bowers (Adjunct with UniSA)
Assoc Prof Nicholas Procter (Nursing and Midwifery) was invited to give evidence to Senate Select Committee on Mental Health at a hearing in Sydney on Tuesday 2 August 2005.
Helen Bradley (Nursing & Midwifery) has just spent 4 weeks coordinating a Community Needs Assessment in the mountainous Emera district of East Timor. As a volunteer, in a team of three from the Public Health Association, she visited villages throughout the area conducting the assessment and worked in the local clinic in her spare time. Helen reports that health there is inhibited greatly by a lack of resources and infrastructure. Staff in the School donated over A$350 towards improving health outcomes in East Timor.
Prof Simon Stewart has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Heart Failure, one of the highest ranking medical journals and official journal of the European Society of Cardiology.
Assoc Prof Nicholas Procter delivered the 2005 Cunningham Dax Oration at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Helen Calabretto in the School of Nursing and Midwifery has been invited to review the obstetrics, gynaecology, paediatrics and nursing terminology definitions in the new Australian and New Zealand version of Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary published by Elsevier.
Assoc Prof Eimear Muir-Cochrane was a keynote speaker at the Canberra Regional Health Conference held on 9-10 June to present on her research in the area of acute in-patient mental health care (seclusion).
Publications
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Professor Simon Stewart has published a new book this month with Blackwell Publishing, BMJ Books to be officially launched the American College of Cardiology Meeting in the USA next month: Simon Stewart, Sally Inglis & Anna Hawkes. “Chronic Cardiac Care: A practical guide to specialist nurse management”. (2006) Blackwell Publishing Ltd, London, UK.
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S Stewart. The pocketbook guide to pulmonary arterial hypertension (Turkish Translation) 2005, Martin Dunitz, London.
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Stewart S, Murphy NF, Hart CL, MacIntyre K, Hole D, McMurray JJV. Effect of socioeconomic deprivation on the population risk of incident heart failure hospitalization: an analysis of the Renfrew/Paisley Study. European Journal of Heart Failure [Impact Factor = 2.8]
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Stewart S, Wilkinson D, Becker A, Askew D, Ntyintyane L, McMurray JJ, Sliwa, K. Tracking the emergence of heart disease in a black, urban population in Africa: The Heart of Soweto Study. International Journal of Cardiology. [Impact Factor 2.1]
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Jaarsma T, Stromberg A, De Geest S, Frindlund B, Heikka J, , Martensson J, Moons P, Scholte op Reimer W, Smith K, Stewart S, Thompson DR. Heart failure management programmes in Europe. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
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Willoughby SR, Stewart S, Holmes AS, Chirkov YY, Horowitz JD. Platelet nitric oxide responsiveness: A novel prognostic marker in acute coronary syndromes. Arterosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; 25:2661-66. [Impact Factor 7.8]
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Ballantyne, A., Cheek, J., Gillham, D. & Quan, J. (In press 2006). Information about the information: Navigating services and supports for older people. Quality in Ageing.
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Cheek, J., Gillham, D. & Ballantyne, A. (In press 2006). Using education to promote research dissemination. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
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Moss J.R., Mickan S.M., Fuller J.D., Procter N.G., Waters B.A., O’Rourke P.K. (2006) Mentoring for population health in general practice divisions, Australian Health Review, 30(1):46-55.
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Procter, N.G. (2006) “They first killed his heart (then) he took his own life”, part 2: Practice implications. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 12(1): 42-48.
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Procter, N.G. (2006) Mental Health Workforce Collaboration and Partnership: Towards a response to World Health Assembly Resolution WHA 57.19. Migration Letters, 3(1): 31-40.
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Murphy NF, MacIntyre K, Stewart S, et al. Long-term cardiovascular consequences of obesity: 20-year follow-up of more than 15,000 middle-aged men and women (the Renfrew-Paisley study): Accepted for Publication in the European Heart Journal [Impact Factor = 6.8]
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Hockley, C. (2005) 'Staff violence against those in their care', in Bowie, V., Fisher, B., & Cooper, C.L. (eds.) Workplace violence. Issues, trends strategies. Willan, Devon, U.K. Chapter 5.
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Hockley, C. (2006) 'Violence in Nursing: The Expectations and the Reality', in Huston, C.J. (ed.) Professional Issues in Nursing. Challenges & Opportunities. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA Chapter 12.
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Pincombe J Pincombe A Pincombe B 2005 Developing robust strategies for rural midwifery, using scenario analysis. In Peer reviewed Proceedings of 18th National ASOR Conference & 11th Australian Optimisation Day, p 138-145.
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Procter, N.G. (2005) “They first killed his heart (then) he took his own life”, part 1: Review of context and literature on mental health issues for refugees and asylum seekers. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 11(6) 286-291
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Dr Sue Pearson and the research team led by Prof Simon Stewart have had a paper describing the "Long-term benefits of a home-based intervention in chronically ill patients" accepted for publication in one of the world's leading and highest impact medical journals - Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Wilding, C., May, E & Muir-Cochrane, E. (2005) The experience of spirituality, mental illness and occupation: A life-sustaining phenomenon Australian Occupational Therapy Journal 52,2-9.
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Fereday, J & Muir-Cochrane, E. (2005 Sept In Press) Performance feedback in clinical nursing practice Collegian
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Muir-Cochrane, E Darbyshire, P., Fereday, J. et al (2005 In Press) Managing medications: being homeless and having a mental health problem International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
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Trussell J, Calabretto H 2005 Cost savings from use of emergency contraceptive pills in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 45: 308-311
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Procter, N.G. and Dusmohamed, H. (2005) Qualitative evaluation of country mental health inpatient units, Australian Journal of Rural Health, 13(4) 255-57
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Ellis, T. Evidence Based Practice Chapter 19, Wound Care Nursing: A guide to practice Ausmed Publications, 2005
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Ellis, T. Wound Bed Preparation, Hospital and Healthcare journal, May 2005.
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Laws TA (2005) Men's Health & Nurse Education, Nursing Focus, July edition, Australian Nursing Journal.
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Barnes L, Scutter S, Young J, (2005) Using Screen Recording and Compression Software to Support Online Learning, Innovate, 1 (5). http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=52
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Thorne, S., Darbyshire, P. (2005) Landmines in the Field: A Modest Proposal for Improving the Craft of Qualitative Health Research. Qualitative Health Research, 15:8, 1105-1113.
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Grant, J, Luxford, Y, Darbyshire, P (2005), Culture, Communication and Child Health. Contemporary Nurse 20:2, 134-142.
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Hiller, J., McDonald, H., Darbyshire, P., Crowther, C. (2005), Antenatal screening for Group b Streptococcus: A diagnostic cohort study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 5:12 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-5-12.
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Darbyshire, P., Schiller, W., MacDougall, C. (2005), Extending new paradigm research: meeting the challenges of including younger children. Early Childhood Development and Care Journal. 175:6, 467-472.
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Schiller, W., MacDougall, C., Darbyshire, P. (2005) (Guest Editors), Directions, Dilemmas and Dialectics: Children’s Perspectives in Research. Special Issue, Early Childhood Development and Care Journal. 175:6.
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Darbyshire, P., MacDougall, C., Schiller, W. (2005, Multiple methods in qualitative research with children: more insight or just more? Qualitative Research. 5:4, 417-436.
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Darbyshire, P. (2005) Message from Australia to UK: Think about what you are really gambling with. Journal of Child Health Care. 9:1, 5-7.
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Darbyshire, P. (2005) Commentary on Hallstrom and Elander. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 14, 130-131.
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Darbyshire, P., Collins, CT., Downs, M., Dyer, S. (2005), Moving from institutional dependence to entrepreneurialism. Creating and funding a collaborative research and practice development position. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 14, 926-934.
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Darbyshire, P., Gordon S. (2005). Exploring popular images and representations of nurses and nursing, IN Professional Nursing, Concepts, Issues, and Challenges, (Eds.) J. Daly, S. Speedy, D. Jackson, V. Lambert & C. Lambert. Springer Publishing Company, New York, USA.