Research in progress
- Development of an International
Nursing Minimum/essential Data Set (I-NMDS) as Australia’s team leader. This project is
being sponsored by the International Medical Informatics Association’s
Nursing Informatics special interest group and the International Council
of Nurses (ICN). The steering committee is Chaired
by Dr
Connie Delaney, University of Iowa.
- E-Communication
Guidelines – a Standards Australia work item IT/14/6/8
- Clinical
concept presentation - a Standards Australia work item IT/14/2
- HealthConnect, a joint Commonwealth, State and Territory
initiative: Evaluation of Consumer and Provider Perspectives for those
involved in the HealthConnect North Queensland Trial.
Doctoral
Thesis Supervision in progress
o
Clinical Model for Predicting Potential Risk and
Decision Support in Micro-Vascular Flap Reconstruction Surgery.
o
Security Policy Implementations and the Protection
of Privacy in Australian Health Care.
Professional Doctorate Project Supervision
- Maximising returns on public investment in Electronic Health
Records: An analysis of consumer participation potential.
Master Thesis Supervision
- Impact of Technology on Communication and
Decision Making
- Will the developing Electronic Health Record
(EHR) architectures supoprt automation of morbidity coding and meet user
needs?
Master of Health
Informatics
Minor Thesis
Supervision in progress
o
Determining clinical concecpts in a multidisciplinary role: Using
structured case studies to provide a critical analysis of the information
requirements of Case Managers.
Research proposals
submitted for funding 2004
o A generic process for
establishing informatics principles enabling clinical information systems to
support nursing practice.
o Improving shared antenatal care
by computer-supported routine use of a basic data set for antenatal care.
o Develop a practical toolkit of
ways to measure the safety and quality of clinical services within healthcare
facilities across Australia.
Research Grants/Tenders Received as Chief Investigator
·
2002 Commonwealth Department of
Health and Aging, Research and Provide Expert Advice on work that has been
undertaken both nationally and internationally of relevance to the
development of Australian clinical event summaries.
·
2002 Commonwealth Department of
Health and Aging, Research and Provide Expert Advice on Standards relevant to
electronic health records and the roles, current directions and priorities of
major international standards organisations (including Standards Australia)
regarding health information standards relevant to EHRs.
·
2001 Faculty Advancement/Top-up Grant to study
Cost Determination: Development of a Methodology to Allocate Academic Input
Costs Relative to Output Activities. Co-recipient Dr Greg Whymark
·
2000 Faculty Research Grant to study relationships
between patient acuity, outcomes of nursing care, nurse staffing levels and
skillmix variables for selected groups of patients in a teaching hospital.
Co-recipient Dr Kevin Tickle.
·
1999 and 2000 Faculty Research Grant to study
first year students’ computer attitudes and experiences. Co-recipient Dr Kevin Tickle.
·
1998 Rockhampton District Health Services
successful tender to conduct an Employee Opinion Survey Consultancy Project.
Co-recipient Dr. Kevin Tickle
·
1998 Faculty Research Grant to conduct a National Review
of IT Education for Health Professionals.
·
1997 University Research Grant to research if
there is a link between patient acuity, outcomes and nursing skill mix at the
Prince Charles hospital in Brisbane. Co-recipient
Ms Sandra Walker, Lecturer Faculty of Health Science.
·
1995 Queensland Health consultancy contract to
review and update standard time values associated with each PAIS nurse
dependency category for general medical/surgical and midwifery patients.
·
1993 Research Incentive Grant from the Faculty of
Health Science to develop an object oriented database for a Nursing Data
Dictionary and Thesaurus - Co recipient Bruce Shannon Lecturer Faculty of
Health Science.
·
1993 Casemix Study Grant from the Commonwealth
Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Service under
the Casemix Development Program - Co recipient Dr. Greg Whymark ,
·
1990 and 1991 Private Hospitals Association of
Victoria consultancy contract for research into hospital nursing work which
led to the development of a point factor position evaluation system for
nurses now used in 35 private hospitals.
Completed
Doctoral Thesis Supervised
o
Black Deborah Ann 1996 Patient-Assessed Health
Outcomes in a Cycle of Continuous Quality Improvement: A Case Study of
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Faculty of Health Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton
o
Plummer A. Alison, 2004
Organisational Issues in Health Informatics and Performance: A
Structured-Case Study of Systems Integration in Public Sector Health Care Organisations.
Completed Master Thesis Supervision
- Ho Mee Yong (Jessica), 2004
The Study of Queensland Nurses
Attitude and Behaviour Towards Computerisation.
Completed
Minor Thesis Supervised for Master of Health Administration and Information
Systems.
- 1996
Evaluation of an Information System in a Community Health Centre – a
case study.
- 1996 Job
Design, Workplace Interaction and Job Satisfaction among Nursing Staff
at the Rankin Park Unit.
o
2001 Loss and Grief in Aged Care Facilities –
Understanding Nurses’ Experience of the Daily Reality.
o
2003 Assessing the impact of a recall system on hospitalisations for
patients with diabetes in the Torres Strait, 1997-2000
o
2004 Job satisfaction in the Intensive Care Nursing Workforce
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