Faculty of Health

Nursing

Postgraduate supervision

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Professor Mari Botti
Coronary care nursing and pain management. Patient participation in health care; patient safety and quality care; Pain management; clinical handover and professional communication; clinical decision making

Professor Tracey Bucknall
Clinical decision making; Evidence Based Practice; Knowledge Translation; Patient Safety and Risk Management; Pain Management; Acute and Critical Care Nursing

Professor Maxine Duke
Hospital in the home; care delivery models Home Care; Teaching and Learning and Clinical Learning

Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone
Nursing and health care ethics; public health emergency and health care disaster ethics; ethics guidance and ethical frameworks in health policy; ethics and end of life decision making; patient safety ethics; culturally and linguistically appropriate health care; professional conduct

Associate Professor Paul Bennett
Renal Nursing, Dialysis, Exercise/Activity, Self Management, Ethnography

Professor Alison Hutchinson
Translation of evidence into practice (knowledge translation/research utilisation); quality of care and patient safety; organisational context and interprofessional interaction/collaboration. Use of qualitative and quantitative methods

Associate Professor Trish Livingston
Cancer; palliative care; and psychosocial outcomes; evidence based practice and chronic disesae;  public health; physical activity, chronic disease and psychosocial outcomes

Associate Professor Di Phillips
Education, women's health including childbearing experience, drug alcohol and illicit drug use by pregnant women

Professor Julie Considine
Evidence-based practice; clinical decision making; clinical risk management;health workforce; health service delivery systems; nursing education; emergency nursing and triage

Dr Judy Currey
Critical care, including heart and lung transplantation; nursing practices and health technologies that impact patient outcomes; medication quality and risk management

Dr Helen Forbes
Nursing education; teamwork; quality and risk management; translation of evidence into practice

Dr Nikki Phillips
Evidence-based practice; acute care nursing; enteral tube management; clinical education

Associate Professor Bodil Rasmussen
Diabetes; chronic illness in young people, psychosocial aspects of living with chronic illness. Patient participation in health care; patient safety and quality care; Pain management; clinical handover and professional communication; clinical decision making

Dr Bernice Redley
Safety and quality in health care delivery

Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus

Professor Trisha Dunning
Nursing management of people with diabetes in all settings especially end of life care and care for older people, quality use of medicines, and complementary therapies using quantitative and qualitative approaches

Associate Professor Natisha Sands
Mental health triage, risk assessment, emergency department mental health, emergency psychiatry, violence in healthcare, consumer perspectives in accessing mental health service, mental health service delivery and mental health nursing

Dr Cate Nagle
Enhancing women's informed decision making; Improving clinical outcomes and optimising women's experience of care in pregnancy, labour and postnatal care; communicating complex/sensitive information and improving risk communication in maternity care

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1st March 2013