Dr Virginia Plummer

PhD, RN, RM, GCHPE,CertCritCare, BN,GradDipHlthAdmin, MSc (Hlth Policy & Mgmnt)

Lecturer

Phone: +61 3 9904 4064 Fax: +61 3 9904 4655 Email: Virginia.Plummer@med.monash.edu.au

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Teaching

• Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic) 
• Evidence based practice and research
• Acute care – Clinical practicum final year students, international students
• Interprofessional health education, nursing and paramedic practice
• Nursing informatics
• Case management and care integration
• Nursing management

Research Interests

Virginia Plummer is a practicing clinician in acute care, accident and emergency, and midwifery. Her hospital management experience includes both the public and private sectors, and board membership of several health care organizations. Virginia’s research interests for the past 14 years have been in the areas of nursing costs, nursing workload and nursing resource allocation.

After completion of a PhD in 2005 analyzing patient dependency data in public and private hospitals in Australia, New Zealand and Thailand, Virginia is now establishing further post-doctoral research in refining nursing service weights, and is currently researching in the area of e-prescribing and interprofessional education.

She is currently supervising local and international students of Masters of Nursing and PhD in the areas of emergency nursing, triage, high dependency nursing, intensive care nursing, inflammatory bowel disease, casemix, nursing informatics, midwifery, health service management and leadership, nursing workloads and workplace satisfaction for nurses.

Committees

• Hearing Panel Member, Health Practitioner Registration Boards, DHS 
• Standing Committee Ethics in Research Involving Humans, Monash University 
• Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University 
• Education Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow, Royal College of Nursing Australia 
• Fellow, Australian College of Health Service Executives 
• Member, Clinical Costing Standards Association of Australia

Recent Publications

Plummer, V. (2006). Informing Nursing Resource Management – a Study of TrendCare data. Full paper, submitted for presentation at HISA conference, Sydney August 2006. Refereed.

Plummer V.,  Heslop L. (2005). Accounting for nurse staffing resources. Abstract submitted for Royal College of Nursing Australia, Nurse leadership conference, Adelaide, July, 2005

Plummer V. (2005). It’s a perfect match: Dependency and skills.  Hospital and Health Care July 2005.

Plummer, V. (2005). The Australian Mandatory Staffing Experience, Book chapter. Policy and Politics in Nursing and Health Care. Eds Mason, D.J., Lewitt, J.K., Chaffee, M. W. 5th edition.

Plummer V. (2005). An analysis of patient dependency data utilizing the TrendCare System, PhD, Monash University, Australia.

Plummer V., H eslop L. (2004). Accounting for nurse staffing. Abstract submitted for Royal College of Nursing Australia, Nurse leadership conference, Sydney February 2005

Plummer V.,  Heslop. L. (2004). Fair and Equitable workloads - An International Study. Conference Proceedings, Health Care Dimensions Conference incorporating the 15th Casemix Conference in Australia, Sydney October 2004. Refereed.