Fields of Research

Nursing
Mental health nursing
Aged health care
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public health and wellbeing
Aged care nursing
Community and primary care
Primary health care
Acute care
Health informatics and information systems
Health services and systems
Preventative health care
Mental health services
Health care administration
Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
Gastroenterology and hepatology
Health and community services
Clinical midwifery
Surgery
Podiatry

Research Objectives

Nursing
Provision of health and support services
Clinical health
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health status and outcomes
Allied health therapies (excl. mental health services)
Mental health services
Evaluation of health outcomes
Rural and remote area health
Palliative care
Health related to ageing
Preventive medicine
Evaluation of health and support services
Mental health
Neonatal and child health
Health education and promotion
Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander determinants of health
Health inequalities

Career Best Publications

From workshop to work practice: An exploration of context and facilitation in the development of evidence-based practice; Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Research Publications

'Caring for my imagined future': important considerations for electronic advance care planning for older community dwelling adults with chronic, life limiting illness; 12th Australian Palliative Care Conference
A Cultural Paradox: Understanding the Experience of Living with Schizophrenia in Sub-Saharan Africa; Australian College of Mental Health Nurses 40th International Mental Health Nursing Conference – Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future
A curriculum model that allows for specialisations for undergraduate nurses; 3rd International Congress in Innovations in Nursing
An ethnographic study of schizophrenia in Zimbabwe: The role of culture, faith, and religion; Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health
Challenges faced in implementation of a telehealth enabled chronic wound care system; Rural and Remote Health
Community based programs: Dignity of life and person-centred processes for advance care planning in the community; 4th International Society of Advanced Care Planning and End of Life Care Conference
Conducting research off the side of your desk: A case study; Day Surgery Australia
Cultural awareness nurses working with Indigenous Australian people; Contexts of Nursing
Cultural awareness: Nurses working with Indigenous Australian people; Contexts of Nursing
eLearning and case-based learning as a better model for nurse education; 3rd International Congress in Innovations in Nursing
Electronic advance care in community: Nurses' role; 1st annual worldwide nursing conference (WNC 2013)
Emergency nurse practitioners: Leaping the hurdles and blending two worlds; 7th International Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing Network Conference
Ethnonursing and the ethnographic approach in nursing; Nurse Researcher
From workshop to work practice: An exploration of context and facilitation in the development of evidence-based practice; Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing
Guest Editorial: Health infrastructure in very remote areas: An analysis of the CRANA Bush Crisis Line database; Australian Journal of Rural Health
Headlice: a precursor to Group A Streptococcal infection in remote Indigenous children; Primary Intention
Health priorities in an Australian mining town: an intercept survey; Rural and Remote Health
Improving Health Services via Advanced ICT Networks; Handbook of research on global diffusion of broadband data transmission
Improving pressure ulcer management in Australian nursing homes: results of the PRIME trial organisational study; Primary Intention: The Australian Journal of Wound Management
Improving the skills of rural and remote generalists to manage mental health emergencies; Rural and Remote Health
Incorporating advance care plans into the new Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record; 12th National rural health conference
Is telehealth the right tool for remote communities? Improving health status in rural Australia; Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for The Australian Nursing Profession
Learning Clinical Decision Making in the Charles Darwin Virtual Hospital; Healthy People for a Healthy World
Making a case for telehealth: measuring the carbon cost of health-related travel; Rural and Remote Health
Measuring the environmental cost of health-related travel from rural and remote Australia; Medical Journal of Australia
Monitoring of long-term cardia complications in patients receiving clozapine; Australian Psychiatry
Non melanocytic skin cancers and melanoma; Chronic Illness and Disability: Principles for Nursing Practice
Non-melanocytic skin cancers and melanoma; Chronic Illness and disability Principles for nursing practice
Nurse Practitioner: A Legalised Remote Area Nurse or a Comprehensive Primary Health Care Practitioner; 2nd International Congress in Innovations in Nursing
Nursing competencies needed for electronic advance care planning in community; GSTF International Journal of Nursing and Health Care
Nursing interventions related to cerebral perfusion pressure following an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage; Australasian Journal of Neuroscience
Overcoming the Barriers to Telehealth in a Rural Healthcare Setting; LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Porphyria Makes Me Depressed; Women and Depression
Pressure ulcer prevalence and its relationship to comorbidity in nursing home residents: results from phase 1 of the PRIME Trial; Primary Intention: The Australian Journal of Wound Management
Primary health care nurses use teleotology in the fight against chronic ear disease in outback Australia; 24th ICN Quadrennial Congress
Realist review to inform development of the Electronic Advance Care Plan for the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record in Australia; Telemedicine and E-Health
Reducing pressure ulcer prevalence in residential aged care: results from phase II of the PRIME trial; Wound Practice and Research
Regarding Ethnonursing: Possibilities and Tensions of the Ethnographic Approach in Nursing; Transcultural Nursing Society 39th Annual Conference
Remote Health 'The new challenge'; Moving Forward from Okinawa for Good Island Nursing
Reporting of non-prescribed medication usage in remote Australia: health-seeking habits in Port Headland; Australian Journal of Rural Health
Severity and duration of pain after colonoscopy and gastroscopy: A cohort study; Journal of Clinical Nursing
Tale of Two Courthouses: A Critique of the Underlying Assumptions in Chronic Disease Self-Management for Aboriginal People; Australasian Medical Journal
teaching telenursing with the Charles Darwin University virtual hospital; Telenursing
Technology+Technique=Telehealth Success; Successes and Failures in Telehealth Conference
The clinical champion role in the development of a successful telehealth wound care project for remote Australia; 5th International Conference on Successes and Failures in Telehealth
The clinical champion role in the development of a successful telehealth wound care project for remote Australia; Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
The cost of health related travel from a remote community; CRANAplus 2013
The Cradle Coast personally controlled electronic health record evaluation research plan; 20th Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC2012)
The current state of Indigenous and Aboriginal women with diabetes in pregnancy: A systematic review; Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
The difference between conducting a systematic review on the identification and treatment of schizophrenia: how database choice affects the outcome; 2013 World Mental Health Congress of The World Federation for Mental Health: “Social inclusion through interdisciplinary interventions”
The effectiveness of digital imaging and remote expert wound consultation on healing rates in chronic lower leg ulcers in the Kimberley region of Western Australia; International Telehealth Conference Innovation and Evaluation
The experience of developing an electronic Advance Care Plan for residents of aged care facilities in Australia; Med-e-Tel 2012 Conference
The fax as an effective telehealth tool; The Australian Journal of Rural Health
The journey from workshop to work practice; Sigma Theta Tau International Conference
The management of threatened hanging and near hanging: a unique feature of remote area emergency care; Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
The Role of Traditional and Faith Healers in Mental Health Care: A Meta Synthesis of Case Reports from sub-Saharan Africa; Australian College of Mental Health Nurses 40th International Mental Health Nursing Conference – Honouring the Past, Shaping the Future
The Role of Traditional and Faith Healers in Mental Health Care: A Meta- Synthesis of Case Reports from Sub-Saharan Africa; University of Tasmania Tasmanian Health Students HDR Conference
What is the impact of diabetes for Australian Aboriginal women when pregnant?; Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) Shona Version: Translation Report

Research Projects

2012: Luxexpo Exhibition and Congress Centre, Luxembourg, 18 to 20 April 2012; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Rural capacity building for health professionals in remote and rural regions; Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI)

Research Candidate Supervision

A critical Ethnographic study examining Mental Health Nursing and its practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Addressing Chronicity - Mediating Metabolic Syndrome in Rural/Remote Communities Through Health Literacy
An Autoethnographic case-study Evaluation of the Development of an Innovative Nursing Service, for a Rural Highland Region of South-Western Tasmania
Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhages in Tasmania a Retrospective Cohort Study
Factors that influence resilience in children whose parents are members of the Australian Defense Force
Hearing our Voice - Harnessing the expertise of the person with younger onset dementia to transform practice
How Organisational and Public Policy Effects the Accessibility of Cancer Services in Tasmania and the Impact of these on the Patient Experience
Meeting the Educational Needs of Families in the Ante-Natal Setting
Preferred Models for End-of-life Care in Regional/Rural Tasmania (Adult Population)
Understanding the lived experiences of people with schizophrenia in Harare Zimbabwe- A Critical Ethnography
What Influences The Use, Retention or Decay of Nurse Practitioners Health Assessment Skills?