Research interests of academic staff

The following is a brief summary of the main research and teaching interests of the academic staff of Sydney Nursing School.

Christina Aggar | Maureen Ahern | Maureen Boughton | Tom Buckley | Mary Chiarella | Sybèle Christopher | (Amanda) Jane Currie | Kate Curtis | Cynthia Delgado | Murray Fisher | Astrid Frotjold | Kim Foster | Jennifer Fraser | Christopher Gordon | John Grootjans | Janice Gullick | Lesley Halliday | Jennifer Hardy | Lillian Hayes | Lisa Haxell | Yun-Hee Jeon | Melinda Lewis | Nathaniel Marshall | Michelle Maw | Andrea McCloughen | Heather McKenzie | Stuart Newman | Shannon Philp | Lisa Pont | Susan Ronaldson | Trudy Rudge | R Lynette Russell | Sarah Sisson | Sally Tracy | Donna Waters | Sandra West | Jill White | Kate White

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Dean and Professor

Jill White

• Curriculum development of nurses and midwives
• the effects on practice of organisational reform
• health policy
• professional regulation (registration and accreditation)
• health services management
• new models of care including models of primary health care
• nursing and midwifery practice

Emeritus Professor

R Lynette Russell

• History of nursing, nursing education and the Australian health care sector
• comparative history of nursing (USA, UK)
• professional issues in nursing
• the history of the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association

Professors

Mary Chiarella

• Regulatory and professional conduct issues in nursing and midwifery
• legal and ethical issues in end of life care
• legal, ethical and policy issues in relation to scope of nursing practice
• innovative models of health care delivery

Trudy Rudge

• Nurses’ work and workplaces
• embodiment
• ethnography and critical textual analyses
• ethico-political issues in nursing practice
• nursing philosophy
• illness experience

Sally Tracy

• Evaluation of midwifery-led primary maternity units in New Zealand and Australia
• midwifery group practice and caseload care for all risk women
• effectiveness of multidisciplinary practice amongst remote Aboriginal families in the Top End of the Northern Territory
• population data studies using linked data bases

Kate White

• Supportive care in cancer and palliative care
• psychosocial and quality of life issues in cancer
• the translation of research evidence into clinical cancer nursing practice
• models of care with an emphasis in rural health

Associate professors

Maureen Boughton

• Women's health and midwifery
• menopause - in particular premature menopause (PM) experience and fertility issues (specifically PM following cancer treatments)
• midlife nurses and shiftwork (menopause impact)
• qualitative methodologies – particularly phenomenological methodologies, grounded theory, ethnography, case study
• embodiment and experience
• research projects which endeavour to enhance the learning experience of students

Kate Curtis

• Emergency and trauma nursing
• models of trauma care
• trauma systems
• financial aspects of trauma care delivery
• patient outcomes

Murray Fisher

• Critical care
• masculinities
• men’s health and nursing
• clinical competency assessment
• readiness for self-directed learning
• medication administration errors
• quantitative methods and multivariate analysis

Kim Foster

• Mental health/psychiatric nursing
• interpersonal communication in health care
• psychosocial health
• research methodology

Jennifer Fraser

• Paediatric nursing
• maternal and child health nursing
• early identification, clinical assessment and treatment strategies for young children with conduct disorders
• analysis of the broad application of home-visiting programs
• evaluation of support for families with a chronically ill child

Yun-Hee Jeon

• Chronic illness
• aged care workforce
• dementia care
• person-centred care
• mental health
• family caregiving
• respite care and culturally diverse workforce
• qualitative research

Heather McKenzie

• Sociology of health, illness and suffering
• sociology of emotions
• community nursing
• cancer care
• qualitative research methodology
• social theory
• the interface between institutions of health care and consumers
• politics of nursing

Donna Waters

• Paediatrics and child health
• research education
• evidence implementation
• knowledge transfer

Sandra West

• Shiftwork and the organisation of nursing work
• biologically-based exploration of clinical nursing practice
• translational research

Academic staff

Christina Aggar

• Gerontic nursing
• aged care
• spiritual caring in nursing
• palliative care for older persons
• aged care in residential aged care settings
• chronic care and rehabilitation
• carers and caregiving

Maureen Ahern

• Australian health care system
• professional issues
• performance of new graduates
• pain management
• nursing issues

Tom Buckley

• Critical care
• preventative cardiology
• nurse practitioner prescribing practices
• use of high fidelity simulation in graduate education
• simulation in graduate education
• advanced life support and sleep in intensive care

Sybèle Christopher

• Early discharge planning
• Hospital in the Home
• Post Acute Care Services
• Primary Health Care
• Refugee Health
• Nursing Workforce Recruitment and Retention
• Generational Differences in Nursing Workforce

(Amanda) Jane Currie

• Human factors related to clinical adverse events
• development of the nurse practitioner role

Cynthia Delgado

• the co-association between physical illness and mental health
• mental health education and promotion for health professionals and the community
• carer and consumer participation and the recovery process
• advance care practices in mental health
• clinical supervision for nurses
• holistic approaches to nursing care

Astrid Frotjold

• Acute care
• wound care
• simulation in nursing
• complementary therapies in nursing

Christopher Gordon

• Acute care
• critical care
• human thermoregulation
• high-fidelity simulation
• integration of physiology and pathophysiology in nursing education

Jennifer Green

• Nursing critically ill patients in both critical care and acute care settings
• how people experience living with illness
• latrogenically induced chronic illness
• lymphoedema

John Grootjans

• Indigenous health education underpinned by equity and human rights
• sustainability and nursing
• ecological aged care

Janice Gullick

• Severe burn injury
• cardiac nursing
• advanced life support
• gastro-intestinal cancer
• orthopaedic surgery
• haemodialysis

Lesley Halliday

• Haematology
• women’s health
• quality of life and the psychosocial impact of specific health
• issues, particularly menopause
• premature menopause and infertility
• ethics in nursing research

Jennifer Hardy

• Clinical education
• use of simulation in pre- and post-registration education
• factors impacting on student learning, use of information and communication technologies related to patient care and clinician performance and implementation research

Lillian Hayes

• Primary health care
• community health nursing
• socio-economic differentials in health
• small area health research
• community health nursing

Lisa Haxell

• Trauma
• emergency
• mental health
• public health

Melinda Lewis

• Curriculum development and curriculum evaluation
• enhancing creativity in the teaching and learning experience
• medical humanities
• eLearning

Nathaniel Marshall

• Sleep apnoea
• mortality
• morbidity
• sleepiness
• sleep restriction
• Continuous Postive Airway Pressure
• randomised controlled trials
• epidemiological methods
• cohorts
• traffic accidents
• evidence-based medicine
• systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Michelle Maw

• Critical care nursing
• clinical supervision
• nurse education

Andrea McCloughen

• Nursing mentorship and leadership
• person-centred mental health nursing care
• the physical health care needs of people experiencing mental illness
• the integration of mental health nursing practice with consumer and carer expertise

Stuart Newman

• Health services management
• men’s health and illness experiences
• nursing and nursing knowledge
• the management of nurses and nursing work in contemporary health care organisations
• health care reform
• the impact on nurses and nursing
• clinical governance

Shannon Philp

• Nurse-led follow up in gynaecological cancer
• fast-track surgery and enhanced recovery after surgery
• patient experience and satisfaction
• quality of life and gynaecological cancer
• nurse-led models of care
• advanced practice nursing roles

Lisa Pont

• Drug utilisation studies
• pharmacoepidemiology
• medicine use and prescribing patterns in large populations
• medicine use among nursing home residents
• drug utilisation and continuum of care

Susan Ronaldson

• Gerontic nursing
• aged care
• spiritual caring in nursing
• palliative care for older persons
• aged care in residential aged care settings
• chronic care and rehabilitation

Sarah Sisson

• Workplace culture
• changes in education frameworks within the health setting