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;
Psychiatric/mental health nurse psychotropic
medication knowledge, practice and attitudes;
Women’s mental health;
Women’s decision making in breast
cancer treatment;
Mental health nurses’ psychotropic
medications administration behaviour;
Health status of tourism employees in developing countries;
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;
Rural and remote women’s health issues;
Nurses’ role in general practice settings;
Recruitment and retention of Indigenous students;
Historical exploration of the roles and experiences of midwives
in adoption practices in Queensland between 1969 and 1990;
Nurses’ understanding of the process of informed
consent;
Experiences of Australian Army nurses in the Korean War;
Renal nurses’ knowledge of renal anaemia management
of haemodialysis;
The experiences of adult children of parents with a psychosis;
The experience of chronic pain in adults in rural North
Queensland;
Postnatal depression – Queensland site for a national
project funded by BeyondBlue;
Maintenance of mental and physical health for childbearing
women in rural areas;