Carolina Weller

GCHE (MONASH) M. Ed Research (RMIT) BN (RMIT)

Phone: +61 3 9905 5440  Fax: +61 3 9905 4837 Email: carolina.weller@med.monash.edu.au

Carolina Weller (currently a doctoral scholar at the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine at the Monash University). 

Carolina’s background is in health sciences education with an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching.  Her clinical expertise is primarily in wound care with a focus on evidence based practice and randomised controlled trials. Her background spans across education, clinical practice and research as well as health policy development.

Carolina has a clinical role in a multi disciplinary wound clinic where she also mentors undergraduate and post graduate students in the area of evidence based wound care practice and chronic wound healing.

Carolina’s PhD research project is a pilot randomised controlled clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of two compression bandaging systems in the management of people with venous ulceration.

Research Interests

Areas of interest

• Evidence based practice
• Interprofessional learning and teaching in clinical settings
• Wound management practice and research
• Drug calculation preparation and assessment
• Health policy and service provision
• Epidemiology and preventative medicine
• Randomised Clinical Trials
• Higher education curriculum and evaluation

Preferred research methodologies 

• Quantitative analysis
• Qualitative analysis

Research activities

• Interprofessional learning and teaching in wound clinic settings
• Drug calculation ability of final year nursing undergraduates
• Clinical trials in wound management

Professional Affiliations

Member-  NHMRC Venous leg ulcer guideline advisory group
Member  - Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society
Member -  Council of Australian Governments Long Stay Older Patients' Advisory Group
Member  - Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA)
Member  - Cochrane Wounds Group
Member  - DHS Chronic Wound Clinic working party Group
Member  - Association of Regulatory and Clinical Scientists
Member  - European Association for Research, Learning and Instruction
Member  - Australian Association for Research in Education
Member - NBV Nurse Practitioner Expert Panel
Editorial Board  member - Journal of the Australian Wound Management Association - Wound Practice and Research
Book Editor - Journal of the Australian Wound Management Association - Wound Practice and Research
Member - National Nursing Organisations
Mentor - Emerging Researchers in Ageing Initiative (ERA)
Reviewer - Injury Journal US
Reviewer - Journal of Wound Care UK

Publications

Peer reviewed Publications

Weller, C. Interactive Dressings and their role in moist wound healing (chapter 7) in Advanced textiles for wound care.  In press Woodhead Publishing Cambridge UK.

Weller, C.  A simple guide to randomised control trials in wound care. European Wound Management Association Journal . May 2009

Weller, C. (2008) [Book Review Leg Ulcer Management]. International Wound Journal 5 (3) 476

Weller, C. Sussman, G. (2006) Wound Dressings Update. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research: Geriatric Therapeutics. 36 (4) 318-324

Weller, C. (2006) Researching best practice service provision for people with chronic wounds in the community in Victoria. International Journal for Human Caring 10 (2)

Weller, C (2005) The skin and healing (Chapter 2) in Templeton, S (ed) Wound Care Nursing:A Guide to Practice. Ausmed publications.Crutchfield L, Frescos N, Duncan G, Weller C & Woodward M(2005)

Prevalence of mycoses in chronic lower limb wounds of people with onychomycosis and/or tinea pedis.Primary Intention; The Australian Journal of Wound Management 13 (2)

Books, reports

Weller, C.  Drug calculation ability of third year undergraduate nurses in Victoria. Master of Education by Research Thesis. RMIT, 2002.

Weller, C.  National review of nursing education discussion paper. Submission no. 29 McMillan Publishing Group. Canberra, 2001

Conference presentations

Weller, C. Invited student speaker. Using CONSORT to design  Randomised Clinical Trials in wound care.  Australian Epidemiological Association Scientific seminar. Melbourne AUSTRALIA September 2008

Weller, C.  Multidisciplinary learning and teaching in clinical wound care settings An Australia example. 17^th World Council of Enterostomal Therapists Congress. . Ljubljana, SLOVENIA June 2008

Weller, C., Duncan, G., Frescos, N. Inter-professional teaching and collaborative learning in clinical wound care settings: an evaluation of experiential learning. (poster) 3^rd Congress  of World Union Wound Healing Societies. Toronto, CANADA. June 2008

Weller, C. Randomised clinical trials in wound care:  chronic venous ulcers.18^th European Wound Management Association. Lisbon, PORTUGAL May 2008

Weller, C., Jenkins, P. Nitric Oxide, Gibberellins and wound healing: the role of MD920 in chronic venous ulcers.  18^th European Wound Management Association. Lisbon, PORTUGAL May 2008

Weller, C. Invited Speaker. Modern Wound Management- what products and when.  Heidelberg Repatriation Wound Seminar. Wounds - Diagnosis and management issues in practice. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA October 2007

Weller, C. Clinical Supervision in wound care settings. Clinical Supervision Conference AUSTIN HEALTH. Melbourne AUSTRALIA April 2007

Weller, C., Frescos, N., Duncan, G. Evaluating teaching and learning in interdisciplinary wound care settings for continuous quality improvement (CQI). WEL06079  AARE International Education Research Conference – Engaging Pedagogies. Adelaide, AUSTRALIA November 2006

Weller, C. Researching best practice service provision for people experiencing chronic wounds in the community in Victoria.  Australian Wound Management Association 6^th National Conference. Canberra, AUSTRALIA March 2006

Weller, C., Duncan, G., Frescos, N. Evaluating experiential teaching and learning in interdisciplinary wound care clinical settings for continuous quality improvement (Poster). Canberra, AUSTRALIA March 2006

Weller, C., Peters, J., Lyder, C., Martin, R. Evidence based practice versus traditional practice in wound care: The Great Debate. WMAV State Conference, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. September 2005.

Weller, C. The Victorian Wound Management Project (Poster) The Inaugural Australian Silver Symposium. SilverChain. Perth, AUSTRALIA. August 2005

Weller, C.   Drug Calculations: How university education can improve the preparation of nurses for safe clinical practice. Latrobe University Research Symposium, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. December 2004

Weller, C. Review of assessment practices of drug calculation learning and teaching in Victorian Higher Education. (WEL04801). Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA November 2004

Weller, C. Assessment practices in drug calculation teaching and learning in Australia. European Association for Research, Learning and Instruction. Bergen, NORWAY June 2004

Weller, C.  Patient-based teaching in wound clinic.  Invited speaker. The Monash Pharmacy Practice Symposium. Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Pharmacy Practice. Melbourne, AUSTRALIA. April 2004