SCHOOL OF NURSING SCIENCES
Present research interests in
the School of Nursing Sciences are as follows.
Perinatal dysphoria: recognition and management
at three sites in Australia.
An examination of the implications of corporate management
structures on health services.
The experience of taking neuroleptic medication.
Psychiatric/mental health nurse psychotropic medication
knowledge, practice and attitudes.
Action research: a strategy for professional development
in clinical nursing.
Women’s mental health.
A consultative model for mental health needs assessment
in rural and remote communities.
Assessment and development of student literacy skills.
Reflection: an innovative teaching strategy
for nursing students.
Transcultural nursing practices.
Nursing in developing countries.
Nurses’ and patients’ perceptions
of professional matters.
Tropical medicine.
Health and tourism.
Legal aspects of medical and nursing practice.
Critical care nursing.
Nursing misconduct in Queensland.
Women’s decision making in breast
cancer treatment.
Tourists and Leishmaniasis.
Travel health advice in Townsville.
Critical care nursing for pregnant and birthing women.
Sexual assault and the pregnant birthing and
post partum woman.
Computer-assisted learning in undergraduate
and postgraduate nursing courses.
Mental health nurses’ psychotropic
medications administration behaviour.
Phases of reflection.
Nursing students’ attitudes to the
elderly.
The acquisition of medication calculation skills
for nursing students.
Women’s health delivery in Mt Isa.
Sexual health.
HIV and Hepatitis C.
Patients’ perception of the Private Emergency Room experience.
Impact of tourism on the health of the host communities.
Health status of tourism employees in developing countries.
Health and safety of airline passengers.
Postnatal issues for mothers and babies.
Regional and rural postnatal health care.
Rural nursing practice.
Childbearing women’s perceptions of health delivery services
in rural and remote areas.
Domestic violence in the childbearing years.
Management of health in childcare settings.
Rural and remote women’s health issues.