Associate Professor Murray J Fisher
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Associate Professor and Director of Pre-registration Programs
M02 - Mallet Street Campus |
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Biographical details | Research interests | Teaching areas | PhD & Masters project opportunities
Biographical details
I have been nursing since 1985 and most of my clinical experience is in adult intensive care and coronary care nursing. I have 17 years nursing education experience, holding positions within the hospital sector and the university sector. In 1991 I completed a Bachelor of Nursing degree with an intensive care major (UTS) and completed an Intensive Therapy Nursing Certificate at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. I have since completed a Master of Health Personnel Education (UNSW) and a PhD (Sydney), for which my thesis was titled 'Masculinities and Men in Nursing: an exploratory study and life history study'. For the past 12 years, I have worked in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, where I have coordinated and taught in units of study at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I served a two-year term as the Associate Dean (Academic) and also held the inaugural position of Director of Pre-registration Programs.
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Research interests
The social construction of gender and the impact on men's health
Health outcomes of chronic illness
Clinical nursing
Readiness for self-directed learning
Areas of expertise
Scale development and multivariate analyses such as exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, multiple regression and SEM
Teaching areas
Current research students
Doctor of Philosophy
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Jennie King, 'The development and evaluation of a hypoglycaemia action plan for adults with type 1 diabetes and their significant other’.
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Michaela Kelleher, 'Clinical assessment and the haemodialysis procedure’.
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Jo Dunn, ‘Suicidal masculinities: A Life History Project’. Recipient of a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Scholarship. Primary Supervisor: Professor Ian Kerridge (VELiM)
Bachelor of Nursing (Honours)
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Denise Haylen, The lived experience of women with LAM. Commenced: 2008
Completed research students
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Jung-Ran (Theresa) Kim, 'ICU nurses' attitudes and knowledge towards organ donation and transplantation in Korea'. PhD awarded 2006.
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Jo Dunn, Dying to be a man: Towards an understanding of the relationship between masculinity and male suicidal behaviour. Completed: 2008, 95 First Class Honours and University Medal
Areas of teaching
I teach and coordinate units of study in the area of nursing research and research utilisation in nursing practice (NURS6008 & CLIN3002). I also teach Masculinities and Men's Health in units of study such as NURS5001 Social Context of Health and ASSN3002 & NURS3002 Health Illness and Care.