Dr Heather Tan

PhD. MGrief & P.C.Couns; BSc; Grad Dip Ed; CCPE.

Research Fellow

Phone: +61 3 9904 4502 Fax: +61 3 9904 4402 Email: heather.tan@med.monash.edu.au

Background

Heather has a background in education, pastoral care and counselling with a particular focus on palliative care for the last 8 years. Her PhD thesis (2008) investigated the implementation of a family meeting model as an instrument of psycho-social and spiritual care of palliative patients and their family members.  She joined the PCRT team in 2008 as a research fellow and project officer for the “After Dark” study.

Research Interests

• Spiritual and psycho-social issues in palliative care
• Carer and family issues

Accredited Level 1 Supervisor

Publications

Journal Articles

Tan, H., Wilson, A., Olver, I., Barton, C.  (in press). Recruiting palliative patients for a large qualitative study: some ethical considerations and staff dilemmas. Spirituality and Health International.

Tan, H., O'Connor, M., Miles, G., Klein, B., Schattner, P. (2009). GP and nurses' perceptions of how after hours care for people receiving palliative care at home could be improved: a mixed methods study. BMC Palliative Care, 8(3), epub.

Zeitz, K., Tan, H., Zeitz, C. (2009) Crowd behaviour at mass gatherings: A literature Review. Prehospital and disaster Medicine. 24(1), 32-38.

Ceichomski, L.,Tan, H.,O'Connor, M., Miles, G., Klein, B., Schattner, P. (2009) After hours palliative care provision in rural and urban Victoria, Australia. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management. 4(1), 57-63.

Tan, H., Braunack-Mayer, A. & Bilby, J. (2005). The Impact of Hospice Environment on Patient Spiritual Expression. Oncology Nursing Forum. 32(5), 1049-1054.

Books & Book Chapters

O’Connor, M., Griffiths, D., Ives, G., Newton, J., Tan, H. (eds) (2009) From Birth to Death: clinical nursing and midwifery research across the lifespan. Melbourne, Australia. Monash University.

Recoche, K., O'Connor, M., Lee, S., Tan, H. & Griffiths, D. (2009). Death, Dying and Loss. In J. Dempsey, J. French & S. Hillege (Eds.), Fundamentals of Nursing & Midwifery: A person-centred approach to care (pp484-509). Broadway, NSW: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins