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Nursing Education Research Team

Team Members

 

Education Research – a brief description

This area of the School of Nursing is focussed on undertaking and developing research in educational issues pertaining to a variety of areas in undergraduate, post-graduate and clinical practice. Key areas that members of the team are actively engaged in or have an interest in are:

  1. Clinical education models
  2. Teaching and learning from an undergraduate perspective
  3. Teaching and learning from a postgraduate perspective
  4. Patient education
  5. Practice development of dishcarge processes.
  6. International approaches to undergraduate clinical training.
  7. The impact of multidsiciplinary education
  8. Research supervision
  9. Graduate transitions, and
  10. Reflective practice

PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES OF TEAM MEMBERS

2005

Astin, F., Newton, J., McKenna, L. & Moore-Coulson, L. (2005) Registered nurses’ expectations and experiences of first year students’ clinical skills and knowledge. Contemporary Nurse, 18(3), 279-291.

Fairhall, R, Barnett, T, Miura, M, & Tateyama, E. (2005). Nursing in ruralJapan: Use of a Delphi study to explore the issues. Asian Journal of Nursing Studies (in press).

Mills J, Francis K & Usher A.  (2005). Mentoring and Preceptoring: Clarifying conceptual definitions. Online Journal of Rural and Remote Health (in Press).

Mills J, Lennon D, Francis K & Usher A. (2005). Rural nurse mentors: developing knowledge and skills. Collegian (in Press).

Newton, J. M & McKenna, L Gliding through –the experiences of graduate nurses Journal of Advanced Nursing (under review)

Tsukada, T. & McKenna, L. (2005) Factors influencing international students when studying nursing inAustralia. Asian Journal of Nursing Studies, 8(1), 32-40

2004

Barnett, T. (2004). Nursing in Australia : a contemporary dialogue. Journal of Modern Nursing Education and Research. 1(2),79-83.

McKenna L & Green C (2004) Experiences and learning during a graduate nurse program: An examination using a focus group approach. Nurse Education in Practice. 4(4), 258-263.

McKenna L & Wellard SJ (2004) Discursive constructions of clinical teaching in Australian nursing programs. Nurse Education Today, 24(3), 229-235.

Newton, J.M. (2004) Learning to Reflect – a journey. Reflective Practice 5(2) p155-166

2003

Grant, E & McKenna, L (2003) International clinical placements for undergraduate students, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 12(4), 529-535

McKenna, L & Samarawickrema, G 2003 Crossing cultural boundaries, flexible approaches and nurse education: A case study. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 21(5), 259-264

 Newton, J.M. (2003) Developing facilitation skills – a narrative. Collegian 10(3) p27- 30.

2001

Newton, J. (2001) Exploring the congruency of Carper’s ways of knowing with student nurses’ use in practice. In Willman, A.& Nilsson, R.(eds) Monograph Critical Appraisal Nursing Theories in Practice, Education and Research. Second European Nursing Theory Conference in Scandinavia
18-20 May, 2000 p96-112.

2000

Newton, J. M. (2000) Uncovering knowing in practice amongst a group of undergraduate student nurses. Reflective Practice 1 (2) p184-199

SUCCESSFULL GRANTS/TENDERS

2005

  • Funded International approaches to undergraduate clinical training. Funded by the Department of Human Services, Victorian Government. $13,726.46. Team Members : K. Bagot, M. Lawson, B.Jolly, L.McCall, M. Bearman, B.Lewis, L. McKenna & J. Newton.   
  • Capacity building in nursing education program. Funded by AusAID/PNG Incentive Fund $208,530. Team Members: T. Barnett, P. Verwoert, J. Grubb.

2005 - Unfunded

  • Integrating teaching, research and practice: women’s experience of caesarean birth. Team members: J. Newton, J. Fawcett (University of Massachusetts) and L. McKenna.

This is a collaborative research project with Professor Jacqueline Fawcett, that is multi-sited. This project is integrating the teaching of undergraduate midwifery research with practice, and in doing so will contribute to an international data set examining women’s experiences of caesarean birth.

2002 - Funded

  • Exploring the knowledge development of graduate nurses. Team members: J. Newton & L. McKenna. Monash Small Grant $8,000

This longitudinal qualitative study has been conducted, in conjunction with over four health agencies sites including rural, metropolitan and the private sector in Victoria. The preliminary findings have resulted in some changes within the delivery of the BN final clinical practicum unit. The findings have been presented at a seminar in Belfast, 2004 and a paper has recently been submitted to the Journal of Advanced Nursing. A poster presentation has been accepted for the Third Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference, Hong Kong 11-12 November, 2005.

  • Experimental Evaluation of Mobile Decision Support Prototype for Emergency Triage Investigators. Team Members: Neha Padmanabhan & Frada Burstein, School of Information Management Systems, Leonid Churilov from the School of Business Systems, and Jeff Wassertheil and Bernard Hornblower from the Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences
  
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