Completed student projects
Master of Nursing (Thesis)
Doctor of Nursing
Doctor of Midwifery
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Publication
Master of Nursing (Thesis)
The Master of Nursing (Thesis) was replaced by the Master of Nursing (Honours), the Master of Midwifery (Honours), and the Master of Health Services (Honours) in 2004.
| Name | Project title | Supervisor | Co-supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Psaila (2007) | Maintaining equilibrium: Altering maternal perceptions of mothering in the NICU. | Sue Nagy | Lynn Chenoweth |
| Denise Kinross (2006) | Family-centred care: A decade of change in the neonatal nursery. | Virginia Schmied | |
| Noreen Murray (2006) | "Hula" Habitual urinalysis is a laborious activity. | Caroline Homer | |
| Rosalind Elliott (2006) | Investigating the effect of an algorithm-based sedation protocol on duration of mechanical ventilation in intensive care patients. | Sharon McKinley | |
| Lyn Dean (2005) | The effect of providing concrete objective information during the procedure of turning ICU patients in bed. | Sharon McKinley | Jane Stein-Parbury |
| Tauaitala Lees (2004) | Safe motherhood in Samoa: a needs assessment. | Caroline Homer | |
| Thomas Buckley (2004) | The effect of education and counseling on knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about responses to acute myocardial infarction. | Sharon McKinley | |
| Susan Brazil (2004) | Improving the practice of family centered care in the neonatal nursery: Implementing change in nursing practice. | Lesley Barclay | |
| Suzanne Rochester (2001) | An opportunity for change: Developmental care and neonatal nursing. | Jackie Crisp | |
| Agnes Willyman (2000) | Infection control and nursing in two provinces of Papau New Guinea : A pilot program training nurses in surveillance and measurement of nosocomial infections. | Lesley Barclay | |
| Kay Woollett (1999) | Special babies: A special place and time the neonatal nurses experience of caring for a baby withdrawn from life support. | Anne Adams | |
| Athena Sheehan (1999) | A comparison of two methods of antenatal breastfeeding education. | Lesley Barclay | |
| Stephen Van Vorst (1999) | New graduate nurses' perceptions of their experience in mental health nursing. | Elizabeth Cameron-Traub | |
| Janice Forbes (1999) | Nursing assessment and identification of changes in symptoms of hypercalcemia following treatment for hypercalcemia in patients with advanced malignancy. | Judith Donoghue | |
| Patricia Brodie (1997) | Being with women: The experience of Australian team midwives | Lesley Barclay | |
| Kathryn Spence (1997) | Ethical advocacy: A model of practice for neonatal nurses. | Michael Carey | |
| Cheryl Lyndon (1997) | Intravenous therapy: The patient's experience. | Elizabeth Cameron-Traub | |
| Marlene Eggert (1996) | The moral responsibility of the nurse in the health care organisation as demonstrated by the example of microallocation decisions in dialysis. | Michael Walsh | |
| Nerida Ambler (1996) | The role of the midwife: A comparative study of women's and midwives' perceptions. | Judith Donoghue | |
| Andrew Cashin (1995) | A study of seclusion: The quest to determine effectiveness. | Cheryl Waters |
Doctor of Nursing
| Name | Project title | Supervisor | Co-supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Graham (2012) | Retention of an Ageing Nursing Workforce in New South Wales, Australia | Christine Duffield | Judith Donoghue and Rhonda Griffiths |
| Kathryn Holloway (2011) | Development of a Specialist Nursing Framework for New Zealand | Jacqueline Baker | Judy Lumby |
| Bernadette Eather (2010) | Failure to rescue: A descriptive study of the experience of nurses in the intervention for patients at risk in the acute ward setting | Mary Chiarella | |
| Ann McKillop (2010) | Opening the black box of guideline implementation: Primary health care nurses' use of a guideline for cardiovascular risk | Jackie Crisp | Kenneth Walsh |
| Carolyn Briggs (2009) | Policy and Practice: The impact of the NSW Government's Families First strategy on child and family health nursing | Virginia Schmied | Lesley Barclay |
| Robyn Rosina (2008) | Young people and chronic illness: A more responsive healthcare world. | Jackie Crisp | Mary Chiarella |
| Janine Bothe (2006) | An evolution of day surgery nursing: An action research process to improve principles of care for people having complex day surgery | Judith Donoghue | Jane Stein-Parbury |
| Shelley Tranter (2006) | From machine to patient: Shifting the focus of care within a hospital haemodialysis unit | Judith Donoghue | |
| Jennifer Dempsey (2006) | Fighting falls with action research: A practice development project. | Judith Donoghue | |
| Lois Hamlin (2006) | Setting the standard: The role of the Australian College of Operating Room Nurses | Sharon McKinley | |
| Beverley Mackay (2005) | An analysis of forces influencing innovative roles in Primary Health Care Nursing | Mary Chiarella | |
| Anita Bamford (2004) | Leadership for cultural change: generating new growth from old. | Cheryl Waters | |
| Francis Hughes (2003) | Policy, politics and nursing: A case study of policy formation in New Zealand | Mary Chiarella | |
| Annabel Watson (2010) | Examining the content validity of the BUDSET instrument within a woman-centred framework | Caroline Homer |
Doctor of Midwifery
| Name | Project title | Supervisor | Co-supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nancy Olan Buasi (2012) | The Implementation of Providing Support in Labour by a Person of the Birthing Woman’s Choice at the Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) | Caroline Homer | Nicky Leap |
| Carole Gilmour (2010) | Renovating midwifery care: The complexity of organisational change for midwives in Victoria, Australia | Caroline Homer | Linette Lock |
| Sally Pairman (2006) | Workforce to Profession: An exploration of New Zealand Midwifery's professionalising strategies from 1986 to 2005 | Jill White | |
| Insaf Shaban (2006) | Midwifery: Contemporary Issues in Jordan | Caroline Homer | |
| Nicky Leap (2005) | Rhetoric and Reality: Narrowing the gap in Australian midwifery | Lesley Barclay | |
| Christine Hendry (2004) | Midwifery in New Zealand 1990-2003: The complexities of service provision | Lesley Barclay | |
| Patricia Brodie (2004) | The invisibility of midwifery - will developing professional capital make a difference? | Lesley Barclay | |
| Sally Tracy (2003) | Counting maternity: The measure of midwifery in Australia , 2002 | Lesley Barclay |
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
| Name | Project title | Supervisor | Co-supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosalind Elliott (2012) | Improving the Quality and Quantity of Sleep for the Intensive Care Patient | Sharon McKinley | Peter Cistulli |
| Manal Kassab (2011) | Immunisation Pain in Infants: A Jordanian Study | Maralyn Foureur | Cathrine Fowler |
| Jann Foster (2011) | The construction of the Nurse Practitioner role in New South Wales: An ethnographic study | Mary Chiarella | Sue Nagy |
| Nicole Brooke (2011) | Case management Rhetoric or Reality. Exploring the issues for residential aged care facilities in Australia | Doug Elliott | Lynn Chenoweth |
| Nerilee Baker (2010) | Exposing the complex realities of nursing unresponsive patients’ pain in intensive care | Jackie Crisp | Jill White |
| Julia Poole (2010) | An evaluation of a person-centred approach to care of older people with cognitive impairment and disturbed behavior in the acute care setting using action research | Sharon McKinley | Lynn Chenoweth |
| Lesley Seaton (2010) | Cultural care in nursing: A critical analysis. | Kim Walker | Jane Stein-Parbury |
| Michael Roche (2010) | The relationship between the work environment and therapeutic commitment of nurses working in mental health. | Christine Duffield | Edward White |
| Suellen Allen (2010) | Developing a safety culture: the unintended consequence of a 'one size fits all' policy. | Caroline Homer | Mary Chiarella |
| Joanne Gray (2010) | 'Placements with women, not institutions' - Learning and the follow-through experience in three year Bachelor of Midwifery programs in Australia. | Caroline Homer | Nicky Leap |
| Diane Twigg (2010) | Patient safety: Evaluation of the impact of nursing hours per patient day staffing method in Western Australia. | Christine Duffield | Patricia Rapley |
| Mahmoud Alja'Afreh (2010) | Developing a functional patient safety framework for transitioning health services: A vision for quality management in a Jordanian acute care hospital. | Judith Donoghue | Roslyn Sorensen |
| Nihaya Al-Sheyab (2009) | Evaluation of a School-Based Peer-Led Education Program for Adolescents with Asthma in Jordan | Robyn Gallagher | Jackie Crisp |
| Marilyn Cruickshank (2008) | An interpretive investigation of perinatal HIV transmission: From the population to the personal | Jackie Crisp | Cheryl Waters |
| Hannah Dahlen (2008) | Reduction of perineal trauma and improved perineal comfort during and after childbirth: The perineal warm pack trial | Caroline Homer | Margaret Cooke |
| Kerry Hoffman (2008) | A comparison of decision-making by "expert" and "novice" nurses in the clinical setting, monitoring patient haemodynamic status post abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery | Christine Duffield | Leanne Aitken |
| Phyllis Moran (2008) | The impact of mentoring and other factors on the career progression of nurse executives | Christine Duffield | Judith Donoghue |
| Ali Khlaifat (2007) | Self-management of Diabetes Type 2 in Jordan: An action research project | Judith Donoghue | Jane Stein-Parbury |
| Beverley Pegg (2007) | A mission of privilege and peril: The phenomenon of community palliative nurses caring for the suffering | Michael Walsh | Anne Adams |
| Reham Khresheh (2006) | Investigating the feasibility of introducing a consolidated birth record: The first step in an information system that identifies outcomes and enables improvement | Linette Lock | |
| Linda Jones (2006) | The challenges of change - planning a midwifery model of care | Christine Duffield | |
| David Smith (2006) | Doing the right thing? Values and pragmatism in contemporary Australian general practice | Michael Carey | |
| Margaret Duff (2005) | A study of labour | Lesley Barclay | |
| Jane Svensson (2005) | Antenatal education: Meeting consumer needs: A study in Health Services | Lesley Barclay | |
| Sue Kildea (2005) | Birthing Business in the Bush: It's time to listen | Lesley Barclay | |
| Alphonsa Ancheril (2005) | Evaluation of a program implemented to reduce surgical wound infection in an acute care hospital in India : A clinical practice improvement project. | Lesley Barclay | |
| Setyowati (2004) | The impact of village midwives and cadres in improving the nutritional status of pregnant women in selected rural villages in two districts, Banten province, Indonesia 2003: A longitudinal descriptive study | Lesley Barclay | |
| Andrew Cashin (2004) | A hermeneutic phenomenological study of the lived experience of parenting a child with autism | Cheryl Waters | |
| Denise Fassett (2004) | An exploration of the influences of medical science on the body: Rehabilitation, nursing, medicine and the physical body | Kim Walker | |
| Alison Short (2003) | Holistic aspects of rehabilitation post-cardiac surgery in the Bonny method of guided imagery and music | Heather Gibb | |
| Ann Mills (2003) | Knowing contraception: experiences, meanings and practices | Lesley Barclay | |
| Susan Jones (2003) | The implications of foregrounding in the implementation of participatory models of care in paediatric hospitals | Jackie Crisp | |
| Helen Callaghan (2003) | Birth dirt relations of power in childbirth | Lesley Barclay | |
| Jennifer Fenwick (2002) | Craving closeness: A grounded theory analysis of women's experiences of mothering in the Level II nursery | Lesley Barclay | |
| Michelle Cleary (2002) | The challenges of mental health care reform for contemporary mental health nursing practice | Cheryl Waters | Jane Stein-Parbury |
| Ying Chui (2002) | Resisting temporality: Why mid-aged Chinese Australians continue to struggle with advancing cancer | Judith Donoghue | |
| Suzanne Reid (2002) | Friend or intruder? Living with an implantable defibrillator: patients' and partners' experiences | Anne Adams | |
| Caroline Homer (2001) | Continuity of maternity care in a community setting: A randomised control trial using the Zelen design | Lesley Barclay | |
| Robyn Gallagher (2001) | Evaluation of telephone follow-up to promote psychosocial adjustment and risk factor modification in women with coronary artery disease | Jennifer Onyx | |
| Linette Lock (2000) | Mothers' experiences with early postnatal discharge | Heather Gibb | Judy Lumby |
| Virginia Schmied (1999) | Blurring the boundaries: Breastfeeding as discursive construction and embodied experience | Lesley Barclay | |
| Anne Adams (1999) | Captured and enraptured: The phenomenon of first-time parenting in the first year | Elizabeth Cameron-Traub | |
| Louise O'Brien (1997) | The nature of the relationship between community psychiatric nurses and clients with severe and persistant mental illness | Cheryl Waters | |
| Cecilia Lau (1997) | An investigation of Rogers' theory on the diffusion of a clinical system innovation | Esther Chang | |
| Diana Keatinge (1995) | And what about us? Understanding meanings to facilitate people centred change | Christine Duffield |
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Publication
| Name | Project title | Supervisor | Co-supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lesley Page (2005) | Working with women in childbirth | Lesley Barclay | Jane Stein-Parbury |
| Donna Diers (2003) | Between practice and ... | Jackie Crisp |
