Dr Kenneth Sellick

RN, RPN, DipNsgEd, CollNsg, BBeh.Sc LaT, MPsychology, LaT, PhD, LaT.

Senior Research Fellow/HDR Coordinator

Phone: +61 3 9902 6681 Fax: +61 3 9902 6527 Email: Ken.sellick@med.monash.edu.au

Has a long career as a nurse educator, researcher and academic in the university sector in Australia and overseas. Professional qualifications include registration as a general and psychiatric nurse and as a clinical psychologist. Areas of teaching expertise are health psychology; counselling; community and community mental health nursing; and nursing research, especially quantitative research design, methodology and data analysis. Has an extensive list of research publications that covers a wide range of nursing and health related topics along with a strong record supervising honours, masters and PhD theses. Main research interests are quality of life of patients with cancer and chronic illnesses, aged care research, depression and loneliness, evaluating nursing interventions, burnout and job satisfaction, and the design of instruments for nursing research.

Teaching expertise

• Nursing research
• Quantitative research methods
• Mental health
• Health counselling

Research Interests

• Loneliness and depression among elderly persons living alone in rural Victoria;
• Maternal and child health nurses experiences dealing with child abuse;
• Quality of life of cancer patients;
• Stress and coping with acute and chronic illness, and 
• Support and respite for carers of people with mental illness

Committees

• School representative on Faculty Research Degrees Committee
• Chair, School of Nursing and Midwifery Research Committee

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow, Royal College of Nursing Australia
• Registered Clinical Psychologist, Victoria

Supervision of HDR projects

• Evaluation of the Asthma Friendly School program in Victorian primary schools

• Evaluation of occupational health & safety services in Hong Kong hospitals

• Facilitating continuing professional nursing for Malaysian nurses through e-learning

• Self esteem of parents of children who deliberately self-harm

• Attitudes of Macau adolescents to substance abuse

• Experiences of new graduate nurses in a Malaysian ICU

• Critical care nurses compliance to hospital policy on high alert medications

Publications

Shanmugasundaram, S., O'Connor, M. & Sellick, K. (2009). A multicultural perspective on conducting palliative care research in an Indian population in Australia. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 15(8), 332-337.

Francis, K., Chapman, Y., Doolan, G & Sellick, K. (2008).  Using overseas registered nurses to fill employment gaps in ural health services: Quick fix or sustainable strategy?  Australian Journal of Rural Health,  16(3),  164-169.

Heinemann, M., Sellick, K., Reynolds, P., Rickard, C. and McGrail, M.(2008).  Automated versus manual blood pressure measurements: A randomised crossover trial.   International Journal of Nursing Practice, 14(4),  296-302.   

Bearsley-Smith, C., Oakley-Brown, M., Sellick, K., Villanueva, E., Chesters, J.,  Francis, K.and Reddy, P.  (2007). Does interpersonal psychotherapy improve clinical care for adolescents with depression attending a rural and adolescent mental health service? Study protocol for a cluster randomised feasibility trial.   BMC Psychiatry, 7:53. 

Hu Yan, Sellick K. (2006).  The reliability and validity of Chinese version “Cancer Rehabilitation Evaluation System-Short Form  (CARES-SF). Chinese Journal of Mental Health. 20(2):76-80.

Peters, L. & Sellick, K. (2005).  Quality of life of cancer patients receiving in-patient and home based palliative care: A comparative study.   Journal of Advanced Nursing.  53(5), 524-533.

Chia, P, Sellick, K. & Gan, S. (2005)  The attitudes and practices of neonatal nurses in the use of kangaroo care for neonates.    Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing.  24(4), 20-27..

Hu Yan & Sellick, K. (2004).  Symptoms, psychological distress, social support and quality of life of Chinese patients newly diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer.  Cancer Nursing. 27 (5), 389-399.

Hu Yan & Sellick, K. (2004).  Health-related quality of life of Chinese patients newly diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer: A longitudinal study.   International Journal of Nursing Studies  41(3), 309-319.

Book Chapters

Sellick, K. (2008). Epidemiology, demography and community health.  In K.Francis, Y.Chapman., Karen Hoare & Jane Mills (Eds).  Australia & New Zealand Community as partner: Theory and practice in nursing (pp 29-53).  Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Sydney.

Sellick, K .(2003) Positivist-analytical approach. In J.Clare & H Hamilton (Eds).  Writing research:  Transforming data into written forms (pp 171-187).  Harcourt, Kent