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Associate Professor Margaret McAllister Dip App Sc(Nursing) QIT., BA, UQ, M Ed, ACU, Ed D, QUT. RN, MHN, FACMHN, MRCNA

Position:

Associate Professor in Nursing, University of the Sunshine Coast

Contact Details:

Tel: +61 7 5456 5032
Fax: +61 7 5456 5004
Email: mmcallis@usc.edu.au

Profile:

As a registered nurse and credentialed mental health nurse with lengthy experience teaching in the tertiary sector. Her interest in self-injury stems from a project exploring nursing care of women who dissociate. Her team has produced an attitude scale being replicated in many countries, and completed a study that revealed most Queensland emergency nurses deal with self-harming patients but lack response skills.

Currently McAllister is implementing an education intervention to develop emergency nurses’ effective, brief intervention strategies, as well as supervising a PhD project examining self-harm in gay men.

She is working with several teams on nationally funded grants, each exploring ways to advance person-focused, effective health-care. Margaret is a member of the International Self-Injury Research Network.

Research Interests:
  • Self injury
  • Transformative education
  • Humanistic approaches in nursing and health
  • Mental health

Publications:

Book

  • McAllister, M. (Ed) (2007). Solution Focused Nursing: Rethinking Practice.  London: Macmillan- Palgrave.

Journal articles (selected)

  • McAllister, M. (2007). Using cultural theory to transform nursing education and practice. The International Journal of the Humanities, 4(2), 71-80.
  • McAllister, M., Osborne, S. (2006). Teaching and Learning Practice Development for Change. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 37(4), 154-59.
  • McAllister, M. (March, 2004). Working with women with Dissociative Identity Disorder --Using Solution-Focused Nursing. In M. DeChesnay (Ed.). Caring for Vulnerable Populations (Editor, De Chesnay, M). New York: Jones & Bartlet.
  • Estefan, A., McAllister, M. & Rowe, J. (2004). Difference, dialogue, dialectics: A study of caring and self-harm. In K. Kavanagh & V. Knowlden (Eds.). Many Voices: Toward caring culture in healthcare and healing.(pp. 21-61). Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences. Volume III. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • McAllister, M. (2003). Self-harm in the emergency setting: Understanding and responding. Contemporary Nurse. 15 (1-2), 130-139.
  • McAllister, M. (2003). Multiple meanings of self-harm: A critical review. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 12(3), 177-185.
  • McAllister, M., & Estefan, A. (2002). Principles and strategies for teaching therapeutic responses to self-harm. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 9, 573-583.
  • Shepperd, C. & McAllister, M. (2003). C.A.R.E: A framework for responding therapeutically to the client who self-harms. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.10(4), 442-447.