Biography
Professor Judy Currey is a Professor of Nursing and an Executive of the Centre for Organisational Change in Person-centred Healthcare (OCPH) in the Faculty of Health. Professor Judy Currey is an internationally respected educator, researcher and critical care nurse whose expertise is applied in academia, health services and professional organisations. As a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Judy is particularly interested in governance as a driver of quality education and health services. For 25 years, Judy has volunteered on Australian boards (Chair, Eva Tilley Memorial Home; Chair, Research Advisory, Australian College of Critical Care Nurses and Australian Resucitation Council, Vic branches) and USA-based international boards in education (Team-Based Learning Collaborative including Chair, Research and Scholarship) and health (International Society of Heart-Lung Transplantation, including Chair, Research and Scholarship).
At Deakin, Judy’s governance service has included Academic Board (2016-2020), Chair, Campus Learning Spaces Committee (2018-2021), Faculty of Health Board (2017-2019), Course Strategy Group (2013-2015) and School of Nursing Advisory Board (2012-2017). During 2020-2022, as Education Lead of Deakin's Campus Reactivation Group (CRG), Judy provided strategic advice to the Vice Chancellor and Executive, and operational advice to academics and students regarding permitted and restricted teaching and learning activities. Judy was the Director of Active Learning in the Office of the DVC(E) (2016-2020), including Director CloudFirst (2019), and Director of Learning Spaces Transformation in 2021, returning full time to the Faculty of Health in 2022. Judy derives great satisfaction creating and leading high performing teams; and motivating and inspiring others to exceed their own expectations.
Judy has a strong academic profile in educational scholarship and practice with an emphasis on active learning for student investment in learning, academic scholarly practice and satisfaction, and students' development of soft skills, psychological capital, mastery of learning and workforce preparedness. Judy pioneered Team-Based Learning (TBL) in Australian health education, leading academics to adopt scholarly practices, and scholarship in learning and teaching that has been recognised by prestigious competitive awards at the University, National and International level. With active learning, and TBL specifically, being adopted by numerous disciplines, Judy has enabled academic succession planning for future generations of diverse learners.
Judy leads a clinical investigative program of patient safety and quality research focused on improving the governance, systems and processes of Rapid Response Systems for recognising and responding to clinical deterioration. Judy’s research explores relationships between clinician attributes, risk management decisions, workforce factors, systems and processes of healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes. Judy is a foundation member of Deakin University’s Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research and Institute of Health Transformation. In 2023, Judy was ranked second in the world in the fields of “rapid response systems and nursing” based on productivity (Title, abstract search: Scopus). Judy is committed to ensuring her research enhances clinicians’ skills and positively impacts patients’ lives through best practice implementation. Judy leads investigative and translational research in healthcare communication using Guided Self-Determination, and translation research in shared decision-making via healthcare communication skills training in Deakin’s OCPH to enhance patients’ lives and experiences of healthcare.
Biography summary
Judy Currey is a Professor of Nursing and Executive of the Centre for Organisational Change in Person-centred Healthcare (OCPH) in the Faculty of Health. From 2016 to 2022, Judy held positions of Director of Learning Spaces Transformation, Director of Active Learning and Director of CloudFirst Projects in the Office of the DVC Education. Prior to this, Judy was the Director of Postgraduate Studies and Director of the Postgraduate Suite of Critical Care Courses for 10 years in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Judy is a foundation member of the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) Research in the Institute of Health Transformation (IHT). Judy leads investigative quality and patient safety research through governance, system, process and decision-making lenses to improve patient experiences and outcomes related to clinical deterioration; and translational research enhancing shared decision making through healthcare communication skills training.
As the pioneer of Team-Based Learning in Australian healthcare education, Judy leads a program of research in teaching and learning focusing on active and collaborative learning, especially Team-Based Learning for its impact on student learning and healthcare workforce preparedness.
Judy is an Accredited Consultant-Trainer in Team-Based Learning (USA); a Principal Fellow of Advance HE (UK); and holds numerous university (including six Vice Chancellor Awards) and national awards for leadership, curricula design, active learning, learning space design and outstanding contributions to student learning. Judy is Board Chair of a stand-alone, large not-for-profit non-denominational community-based aged care home in Melbourne. Judy is an Editorial Board member of Australian Critical Care.
Research interests
Patient safety, particularly clinical deterioration of patients and rapid response teams
Educational design and teaching practice to develop a professional workforce skilled in clinical risk management
Nurses’ decision making to optimise recovery after critical illness
Teaching interests
Team-Based Learning
Active and collaborative learning
Assessment for learning
Student-centred learning
Academic professional development
Units taught
HNN108 Evidence-Based Practice
Awards
2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Campus Environments:Deakin Law School Building
2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to People and Culture: Campus Reactivation Group
2019 Vice-Chancellor’s Award Teaching Team of the Year:
Leading Sustained Active and Collaborative Learning and International Scholarship for Transformative Student Learning Experiences through Team-Based Learning
2011: ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
Commitment to developing advanced critical thinking, problem-solving and teamwork skills in students through teaching excellence in postgraduate critical care nursing courses
2010: WJC Banks Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning and Deakin University Teacher of the Year
2010: Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching
2010: Deakin University Award for Teaching Excellence
2010: Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Innovation Award
2008: Most Outstanding Course: Suite of Critical Care Courses, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University
2008: Health Super/Deakin Excellence in Nursing Leadership in an Urban Health Care Environment
2019: Best Nursing Free Paper, 44th World Congress on Intensive Care
2019: Best Research Paper Award Team-Based Learning Collaborative, USA:
2018: Best Research Paper Award, Team-Based Learning Collaborative, USA:
2014: Kathleen AB Smith Prize for Best Nursing Publication, The Alfred
2014: Philippa Moore College of Emergency Nursing Australasia Publication Prize
2007: Best Nursing Poster 32nd Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive care
2007: Best Nursing Research Paper Australian College of Critical Care Nurses’ Victorian Branch Annual Symposium
2002: Best Nursing Research Paper Australian College of Critical Care Nurses’ Victorian Branch Annual Symposium
Publications
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Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Predicting serious in-hospital adverse events: evidence-based risk assessment for patients requiring emergency admission
Prof Julie Considine, Prof Judy Currey, Dr Daryl Jones
Nurses Board of VIC Grant - Research
- 2015: $9,989
- 2013: $39,958
Independent Medical Examiner (IME) Quality Assurance Process redesign.
A/Prof Matt Mount, Prof Judy Currey, Dr Huw Flatau Harrison, Ms Stephanie Sprogis
Victorian Workcover Authority (WorkSafe Vic) - Partnership
- 2021: $20,000
- 2020: $20,000
Independent Medical Examiner (IME) QAP redesign. New Evidence Based Quality Tool Development
Prof Judy Currey, Dr Huw Flatau Harrison
WorkSafe Victoria
- 2022: $58,727
Cyber Harm Prevention
Prof Robin Ram Mohan Doss, Dr Jay Jeong, Prof Chad Whelan, Prof Judy Currey, A/Prof William Yeoh, Prof Gang Li, Dr Adnan Anwar, Dr Paul Cooper, Mr Damien Manuel
VIC Managed Insurance Authority
- 2023: $175,280
- 2022: $50,763
Industry and Other Funding
Implementing a core dataset for the systematic reporting of medication incidents by cardiac nurses
Prof Judy Currey
RCN - Florence Nightingale Memorial Scholarship - Royal College of Nursing Scholarship
- 2007: $7,500
Video analysis of interprofessional communication and decision making therapy in intensive care
Prof Judy Currey, Prof Tracey Bucknall, Prof Elizabeth Manias, Dr David Pilcher, Dr Rasa Ruseckaite
Aust College of Critical Care Nurses Grant - Hospira Australia
- 2009: $10,000
Supervisions
Joshua Allen
Thesis entitled: Anticipating clinical deterioration: Patient characteristics and system factors
Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing), School of Nursing & Midwifery
Hayden Luke Richards
Thesis entitled: Emergency Doctors¿ Experience of Negative Referral Encounters
Master of Philosophy (Medicine), School of Medicine
Stephanie Sprogis
Thesis entitled: Exploring the Pre-Medical Emergency Team Tier of Rapid Response Systems
Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing), School of Nursing & Midwifery
Monica Schoch
Thesis entitled: Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Haemodialysis Vascular Access
Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing), School of Nursing & Midwifery
Kesorn Promlek
Thesis entitled: Evidence-based Care for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients by Thai Trauma Nurses
Doctor of Philosophy (Nursing), School of Nursing & Midwifery
Ann Marie Dunk
Thesis entitled: Exploring Known Risk Factors for Pressure Injury with Visual Technology
Master of Nursing, School of Nursing & Midwifery