Broad areas of research:
Chronic and complex conditions
- Improving Diabetes Management in the Acute Inpatient Settings
- Progression of Diabetic Complications Study – PREDICT
- Excellence in Bariatric Care using barriers and enablers to inform best care
- Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on patients and health care providers with five arms involving:
- nurses & midwives (including Danish arm)
- Allied Health Professionals and Doctors;
- Nursing and Midwifery Educators (including Adelaide arm);
- Undergraduate midwifery and nursing students, and
- Impact of COVID-19 on patient care and experience:
- experiences and perceptions of patients with chronic disease, multi-morbidities or cancer, and their health care providers
- Improving pregnancy care and outcomes for women through a dedicated bariatric clinic
- Use of antenatal corticosteroids for women with diabetes to prevent neonatal respiratory distress
Technology in healthcare
- Consumers’ views of the use of Telehealth
- An online Guided Self-Determination Program to improve self-Management in Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes, Adults with Type 2 and Low Social Economic Student transition to University.
- A novel website for supporting healthy eating amongst disadvantaged individuals with type 2 diabetes
- Empowerment in life: digitally supported intervention for people with complex type 2 diabetes and co-morbidity in outpatient clinics (collaboration with Copenhagen University)
- Improving the mental health of cancer survivors with an online mindfulness program: a partnership model to impact on cancer care
- Breastfeeding information and support: Development of a website for women with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
- Exploring childbearing women’s use of digital media for pregnancy, labour, and birth.
- The influence of technology on developing ‘hands-on’ clinical skills
Health Workforce
- The Working Together project to co-design, trial, and evaluate improved nursing and midwifery workload allocation and management practices
- Examining nurses’ and midwives’ attitudes, perceptions, acceptance, and use of an Electronic Medical Record System (with an arm of the project in Allied Health and Medicine)
- Evaluation of the junior medical staff education program in Newborn Services
- Evaluation of the implementation of the Registered Undergraduate Student of Midwifery role
- Evaluating the outcomes of single and double check medication administration
- Exploring midwifery students’ development of critical thinking, workplace based learning and facilitation, and transition to practice
- The role of mentoring in enhancing midwifery workforce
Gender and health
- Transition to parenthood: Sleep and wellbeing among fathers
- Fertility and childbearing concerns and related information needs and preferences of women with chronic kidney disease
- Clinical trials of Lactamo, a device to assist breastfeeding women
- Improving breastfeeding rates through pump hire for mothers of premature babies
Enhancing maternity services
- Antenatal education and support programs for women giving birth at Western Health
- Ten year evaluation of the publicly funded homebirth service.
- Improving the induction of labour process
- Evaluation of the MaternityCares project (a multifaceted service improvement evaluation)
- The experience of giving or receiving maternity care during COVID-19 pandemic (a 5 cohort study)
- The experience of infant feeding and postnatal care during COVID-19 pandemic
- Evaluation of the implementation of the BSOTS triage system in maternity
- Improving sustainability in maternity through waste segregation
Meet our Researchers
Our team members
The centre is led by Professor Bodil Rasmussen with the support of research fellows, nurse researchers, research assistants and higher degree by research students (honours, master's and PhD).
Position | Name |
---|---|
Chair in Nursing | Prof. Bodil Rasmussen |
Chair in Midwifery | Prof. Linda Sweet |
Senior Research Fellow | Dr Sara Holton |
Senior Research Fellow | Dr Karen Wynter |
Research Fellow | Dr Vidanka Vasilevski |
Contact us
Deakin QPS
qps@deakin.edu.au
Western Health
Western Health Partnership
Western Centre for Health Research and Education
Sunshine Hospital
176 Furlong Road
St Albans, Vic 3021
Email: Bodil Rasmussen (Nursing)
Email: Linda Sweet (Midwifery)
