Master of Nursing (Honours)

Marcos Canda

(2008)

Home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the City and Province of Maputo, Mozambique

Supervisor: Mary Chiarella, Cosupervisor: Andrew Cashin

Louise Maher

(2008)

Mapping chemotherapy-related mouth changes in gero-oncology non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients

Supervisor: Patricia Farrar, Co-supervisor: Vivien Lane

Greg Melbourne

(2008)

Patient controlled analgesia use by elderly postoperative patients

Supervisor: Robyn Gallagher, Cosupervisor: Tom Buckley

Karen Myors

(2008)

The two to five year old is magic: Child and family health nurses working with parents of pre-school children

Supervisor: Edward White, Co-supervisor: Virginia Schmied

Julia Smailes

(2008)

General nurses' recognition of psychological distress in prisoners

Supervisor: Donna Waters, Co-supervisor: Jane Stein-Parbury

Renee Trotter

(2008)

State anxiety in the PTCA and Stent population

Supervisor: Robyn Gallagher, Cosupervisor: Judith Donoghue

Leonie Weisbrodt

(2008)

A pilot study of the impact of a routine, daily interruption to continuous sedation in mechanically ventilated patients on duration of mechanical ventilation

Supervisor: Sharon McKinley, Cosupervisor: Andrea Marshall

Linda Thomson Mangnall

(2007)

Postoperative delirium in the colorectal surgical population

Supervisor: Jane Stein-Parbury, Co-supervisor: Robyn Gallagher

Sri Wahyuni Awaluddin

(2007)

Indonesian nurses' knowledge of, attitudes and adherence to standard precautions related to reducing the risk of occupational exposure to bloodborne infectious diseases (HIV/HBV)

Supervisor: Robyn Gallagher, Co-supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Master of Nursing (Thesis)

Kim Psaila

(2007)

Maintaining equilibrium: Altering maternal perceptions of mothering in the NICU

Supervisor: Sue Nagy, Co-supervisor: Lynn Chenoweth

Denise Kinross

(2006)

Family-centred care: A decade of change in the neonatal nursery

Supervisor: Virginia Schmied

Noreen Murray

(2006)

"Hula" Habitual urinalysis is a laborious activity

Supervisor: Caroline Homer

Rosalind Elliott

(2006)

Investigating the effect of an algorithm-based sedation protocol on duration of mechanical ventilation in intensive care patients

Supervisor: Sharon McKinley

Lyn Dean

(2005)

The effect of providing concrete objective information during the procedure of turning ICU patients in bed

Supervisor: Sharon McKinley

Tauaitala Lees

(2004)

Safe motherhood in Samoa : a needs assessment

Supervisor: Caroline Homer

Thomas Buckley

(2004)

The effect of education and counseling on knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about responses to acute myocardial infarction

Supervisor: Sharon McKinley

Susan Brazil

(2004)

Improving the practice of family centered care in the neonatal nursery: Implementing change in nursing practice

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Suzanne Rochester

(2001)

An opportunity for change: Developmental care and neonatal nursing

Supervisor: 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

Supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Anne Adams

Athena Sheehan

(1999)

A comparison of two methods of antenatal breastfeeding education

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Stephen Van Vorst

(1999)

New graduate nurses' perceptions of their experience in mental health nursing

Supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Patricia Brodie

(1997)

Being with women: The experience of Australian team midwives

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Kathryn Spence

(1997)

Ethical advocacy: A model of practice for neonatal nurses

Supervisor: Michael Carey

Cheryl Lyndon

(1997)

Intravenous therapy: The patient's experience

Supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Michael Walsh

Nerida Ambler

(1996)

The role of the midwife: A comparative study of women's and midwives' perceptions

Supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Andrew Cashin

(1995)

A study of seclusion: The quest to determine effectiveness

Supervisor: Cheryl Waters

Doctor of Nursing

Robyn Rosina

(2008)

Young people and chronic illness: A more responsive healthcare world

Supervisor: Jackie Crisp, Co-supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Shelley Tranter

(2006)

From machine to patient: Shifting the focus of care within a hospital haemodialysis unit

Supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Jennifer Dempsey

(2006)

Fighting falls with action research: A practice development project

Supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Lois Hamlin

(2006)

Setting the standard: The role of the Australian College of Operating Room Nurses

Supervisor: Sharon McKinley

Beverley Mackay

(2005)

An analysis of forces influencing innovative roles in Primary Health Care Nursing

Supervisor: Mary Chiarella

Anita Bamford

(2004)

Leadership for cultural change: generating new growth from old

Supervisor: Cheryl Waters

Francis Hughes

(2003)

Policy, politics and nursing: A case study of policy formation in New Zealand

Supervisor: Mary Chiarella

Doctor of Midwifery

Sally Pairman

(2006)

Workforce to Profession: An exploration of New Zealand Midwifery's professionalising strategies from 1986 to 2005

Supervisor: Jill White

Insaf Shaban

(2006)

Midwifery: Contemporary Issues in Jordan

Supervisor: Caroline Homer

Nicky Leap

(2005)

Rhetoric and Reality: Narrowing the gap in Australian midwifery

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Christine Hendry

(2004)

Midwifery in New Zealand 1990-2003: The complexities of service provision

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Patricia Brodie

(2004)

The invisibility of midwifery - will developing professional capital make a difference?

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Sally Tracy

(2003)

Counting maternity: The measure of midwifery in Australia , 2002

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Marilyn Cruickshank

(2008)

An interpretive investigation of perinatal HIV transmission: From the population to the personal

Supervisor: Jackie Crisp, Co-supervisor: Cheryl Waters

Hannah Dahlen

(2008)

Reduction of perineal trauma and improved perineal comfort during and after childbirth: The perineal warm pack trial

Supervisor: Caroline Homer, Co-supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Christine Duffield, Co-supervisor: Leanne Aitken

Phyllis Moran

(2008)

The impact of mentoring and other factors on the career progression of nurse executives

Supervisor: Christine Duffield, Co-supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Ali Khlaifat

(2007)

Self-management of Diabetes Type 2 in Jordan: An action research project

Supervisor: Judith Donoghue, Co-supervisor: Jane Stein-Parbury

Beverley Pegg

(2007)

A mission of privilege and peril: The phenomenon of community palliative nurses caring for the suffering

Supervisor: Michael Walsh, Co-supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Linette Lock

Linda Jones

(2006)

The challenges of change - planning a midwifery model of care

Supervisor: Christine Duffield

David Smith

(2006)

Doing the right thing? Values and pragmatism in contemporary Australian general practice

Supervisor: Michael Carey

Margaret Duff

(2005)

A study of labour

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Jane Svensson

(2005)

Antenatal education: Meeting consumer needs: A study in Health Services

Development Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Sue Kildea

(2005)

Birthing Business in the Bush: It's time to listen

Supervisor: 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.

Supervisor: 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

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Andrew Cashin

(2004)

A hermeneutic phenomenological study of the lived experience of parenting a child with autism

Supervisor: Cheryl Waters

Denise Fassett

(2004)

An exploration of the influences of medical science on the body: Rehabilitation, nursing, medicine and the physical body

Supervisor: Kim Walker

Alison Short

(2003)

Holistic aspects of rehabilitation post-cardiac surgery in the Bonny method of guided imagery and music

Supervisor: Heather Gibb

Ann Mills

(2003)

Knowing contraception: experiences, meanings and practices

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Susan Jones

(2003)

The implications of foregrounding in the implementation of participatory models of care in paediatric hospitals

Supervisor: Jackie Crisp

Helen Callaghan

(2003)

Birth dirt relations of power in childbirth

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Jennifer Fenwick

(2002)

Craving closeness: A grounded theory analysis of women's experiences of mothering in the Level II nursery

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Michelle Cleary

(2002)

The challenges of mental health care reform for contemporary mental health nursing practice

Supervisor: Cheryl Waters

Ying Chui

(2002)

Resisting temporality: Why mid-aged Chinese Australians continue to struggle with advancing cancer

Supervisor: Judith Donoghue

Suzanne Reid

(2002)

Friend or intruder? Living with an implantable defibrillator: patients' and partners' experiences

Supervisor: Anne Adams

Caroline Homer

(2001)

Continuity of maternity care in a community setting: A randomised control trial using the Zelen design

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Robyn Gallagher

(2001)

Evaluation of telephone follow-up to promote psychosocial adjustment and risk factor modification in women with coronary artery disease

Supervisor: Sharon McKinley

Patricia Farrar

(2000)

Relinquishment and abjection: a semanalysis of the meaning of losing a baby to adoption

Supervisor: Jennifer Onyx

Linette Lock

(2000)

Mothers' experiences with early postnatal discharge

Supervisor: Heather Gibb, Co-supervisor: Judy Lumby

Virginia Schmied

(1999)

Blurring the boundaries: Breastfeeding as discursive construction and embodied experience

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Anne Adams

(1999)

Captured and enraptured: The phenomenon of first-time parenting in the first year

Supervisor: Elizabeth Cameron-Traub

Louise O'Brien

(1997)

The nature of the relationship between community psychiatric nurses and clients with severe and persistant mental illness

Supervisor: Cheryl Waters

Cecilia Lau

(1997)

An investigation of Rogers ' theory on the diffusion of a clinical system innovation

Supervisor: Esther Chang

Diana Keatinge

(1995)

And what about us? Understanding meanings to facilitate people centred change

Supervisor: Christine Duffield

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Publication

Lesley Page

(2005)

Working with women in childbirth

Supervisor: Lesley Barclay

Donna Diers

(2003)

Between practice and ...

Supervisor: Jackie Crisp