Research Collaboration and Partnerships
Uniting Care
Uniting Care Ageing, Sydney is a collaborator on the research project led by Dr Susan Ronaldson on aged care nurses’ and carers’ knowledge of palliative care. One of the researchers on that project, Michelle Carey, is a Clinical Nurses Consultant (Palliative Care) from Central Sydney Community Nursing Service.
Christina is a research assistant for the funded research project investigating palliative care in residential aged care facilities being conducted with Susan Ronaldson, Lillian Hayes & Michelle Carey, who is a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Palliative Care. In 2007, Christina plans to commence her Honours research on the bereavement experience of elderly women who have been carers. Christina is a past undergraduate student of the Faculty.
Sacred Heart
From June 2006 Ms Jane McGuire of the Sacred Heart Palliative Care Team has been working with Professor Kate White at the Faculty to develop culturally appropriate palliative care services.
At present Dr Cannas Kwok and Professor Kate White are working with Dr Daniel Fong of Hong Kong University to develop an instrument to ascertain the breast cancer screening behaviour of women of Chinese ancestry.
The group is pleased to welcome visiting staff members Dr Mary Ryan and Ms Kathryn Nattress. Both Dr Ryan and Ms Nattress are specialists in the field of gynae-oncology and we look forward to broadening and deepening our research areas with them.
Collaborative AROUSE Study Endorsed by ANZICS Clinical Trials Group
The collaborative AROUSE study involves the work of nurse researchers, from the Faculty and University of Technology, Sydney, medical researchers and clinical colleagues at Sydney-area hospitals. Mrs Andrea Marshall of the Faculty is participating in this study, which recently received accolades from the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society’s (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group (CTG), marking the first time a nursing research project has been endorsed by this group.
Collaborative Qualitative Nursing Research Project Presented at Medically Dominated Conference
Faculty researchers Mr Murray Fisher and Mrs Andrea Marshall are working with colleagues at the University of Technology, Sydney on the project, ‘The life experiences and risk behaviour modification of individuals recovering from an acute cardiac event: A life history project’, which is being undertaken at the Royal North Shore and Prince of Wales Hospitals. In an important breakthrough for nursing research, this qualitative nursing research project was accepted at the prestigious National Heart Foundation Conference, ‘Cardiovascular Disease in the 21st Century: Shaping the Future’, which rarely takes non-medical papers.
RPA Women and Babies Centre for Midwifery and Nursing Research
The Centre is committed to developing partnerships with the University of Sydney, all relevant health professionals and consumers to develop, implement and evaluate best practice. The Centre primarily directs its efforts towards improving outcomes for childbearing women, their partners and children through scholarship, research, debate and education. The work of the Centre is governed by an evidence based ethos promoting best practice, the development of evidence based guidelines and improved clinical outcomes.
Contact:
Ms Maureen Ryan, RPA Women and Babies
maureen.ryan@email.cs.nsw.gov.au, 9515 6672
Dr Maureen Boughton, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sydney, 9351 0626
Email:
Centre for Women’s Health, Royal Hospital for Women
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Mr Murray Fisher and Mrs Andrea Marshall
Mr Murray Fisher and Mrs Andrea Marshall are collaborating with researchers at UTS on a large qualitative study addressing women’s experiences and risk behaviour modification following an acute cardiac event.