School of Nursing
Acting head: Associate Professor A P Barnett
Address: School of Nursing, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Switchback
Road, Churchill 3842
Telephone: (03) 5122 6441
Contact:
Ms G Ives
Address: School of Nursing, Monash University, Peninsula Campus,
Frankston 3199
Telephone: (03) 9904 4377
- + Community nursing Priority area of research and teaching with
strong clinical links.
- + 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.
Address:
School of Nursing, Monash University, Gippsland Campus, Switchback Road,
Churchill 3842
Telephone: (03) 9902 6639
Research activities have been developed around rural health and primary health
care.
- + 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; 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.
- + Primary health care Chronic illness (back pain) and
consumer-oriented model of collaborative practice; 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.
- + Nursing education Study skills and coping strategies of
registered nurses studying by distance education in Hong Kong and Australia;
clinician's perception of role and performance in student nurse supervision.