Subfaculty of Nursing
The Subfaculty of Nursing within the Faculty of Medicine provides
facilities for graduate research work which can lead to the degree of Master of
Nursing (MN) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The following is a brief list of
the principle areas of research in the Subfaculty of Nursing.
Head: Professor J Bowers
Address: Subfaculty of Nursing, Monash University, Beddoe Avenue, Clayton,
3168
Phone: (03) 9905 4034
Head: Ms T McDonald
Contact person: Ms G Ives, deputy head
Address: Caroline Chisholm School of Nursing, Monash University, Peninsula
Campus, Frankston, 3199
Phone: (03) 9904 4202
- Community nursing Priority area of research and teaching with
strong clinical links.
- Health services management Supervision is available for nurses
interested in pursuing questions about services management and the impact of
structural and administrative factors on service efficiency and care outcomes.
- Public health Opportunities exist for examining questions of
particular interest to regional health as well as more global approaches to
factors that help and hinder population health nationally and internationally.
- Nurse education Research associated with nurse education can
involve a range of methodological approaches and cover an equally fascinating
array of worthwhile topics. Expertise in many aspects of nursing education
exists.
- Palliative care Expertise is available in the areas of community
palliative care, models of palliative care practice, patient care issues,
decision-making issues and professional issues.
- Acute care Current research interests in acute care are:
innovations in emergency clinical nursing practice; collaborative projects with
industry; development of nursing practice standards; and information systems
for acute care.
- Ethical/moral issues Extensive expertise exists to facilitate
research and philosophical scholarship in relation to ethical and moral issues.
- Legal issues Opportunities for legal research include issues
related to independent practice, the enhancement of scope of practice, and
common law issues including negligence and consent.
- Family health, women's health, sexual health and adolescents
Research opportunities include the broad areas of family nursing, women's and
adolescent health and sexual health with academic staff offering expertise
across the age and development continuum in these areas.
- Complementary therapies A variety of research approaches to
address this increasingly utilised form of health care are available.
Head: Professor F Kretlow
Address: School of Health Sciences, Monash University, Gippsland Campus,
Switchback Road, Churchill, 3842
Phone: (051) 22 6454
School of Health Sciences has developed its research activities around rural
health, primary health care and phenomenological research methodology.
- Nursing practice research Home care (district) nursing practice in
changing times; palliative care nursing in rural communities; quality of
worklife, structural factors and health impacts of nurses; self-perceived role
and expectations of community health nurses; nursing staff perceptions of
change in aged care documentation system; employment trends of nurse graduates.
- Clinical research Illness experience studies; post cardiac event
rehabilitation and gender differences and continuation of health maintenance
behaviours'; needs assessment of rural/remote area family with chronically
ill/special needs child; severely disturbed mentally ill and their integration
into community.
- Primary health care Chronic illness (back pain) and
consumer-oriented model of collaborative practice; education needs of community
mental health and alcohol and drug services workers; multi-purpose service and
health focus: an evaluation study; psycho-social risk-factors and prevention of
cancer in women; community nurse practitioners attachment with general medical
practitioners: a collaborative model; sun exposure and sun-protection
behaviours in mountain and coastal locations in East Gippsland.
- Technology and the nurse The concept of cognitive awareness
planning styles and their effect on nurses use of technology; effectiveness of
computer-assisted health risk appraisal instruments.
- Nursing education research Study skills and coping strategies of
registered nurses studying by distance education in Hong Kong and Australia;
distance education field experiment in use of designed instruction in
post-graduate rural health and nursing courses; clinician's perception of role
and performance in student nurse supervision.
Director: to be advised
Address: Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing, Monash Medical
Centre, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, 3168
Phone: (03) 9550 2340
The centre is developing its research focus within the construct `self-care'.
Many of the following research projects relate to a self-care framework and
form the core activities of the research unit.
- Clinical research Born before arrival (a study examining the
premature birth of babies before arrival at hospital); exploration of the
formal and informal nursing needs of two groups of patients after discharge
from surgery for benign prostate disease; haemodialysis patients' perception of
itch and implications for nursing practice; episiotomy repair following
childbirth; associations between stress and coronary artery disease;
relationships between patients' experiences of discomfort and self-care
capabilities; the emotional impact on families who monitor vulnerable infants
at home; patients' experience of living with end stage renal disease; the
experience of parents in neonatal intensive care unit; nurse/patient
partnerships in care.
- Nursing practice research Expert nursing in the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit; nurses' interventions with patients' families in the hospital
setting; independence in nursing practice; examining the efficacy of the
suturing of simple lacerations by clinical nurse specialists in the Emergency
Department; the baby with congenital abnormality; temperature control in
neonates; the impact of discomfort on patient self-care capacity; the
utilisation of technicians in operating suites in Victorian hospitals; digital
photography; potential documentation source for patient associated cues;
hospital networks: policy, processes and implications for nursing practice;
promoting best practice in the prevention and treatment of decubiti (pressure
sores) at Monash Medical Centre, a multi-site study.
- Nursing education studies Evaluation of a new model of midwifery
education; preceptorship in neonatal nurse; credentialing nurse pap smear
providers.
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