Staff Profile
Ms Maureen Ahern
Lecturer
RN, BA MHP(UNSW)
Biography
Maureen has many years experience as a registered nurse. She has worked in a variety of public hospitals as well as the University of Sydney and Mitchell College of Advanced Education. Maureen is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery.
Maureen’s clinical background is in adult and paediatric cardiac nursing. She completed her general nursing certificate at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. She later completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Health Planning at the University of New South Wales. Maureen has published in the areas of pain management, functional status, and the educational needs of Indigenous and non-English speaking background students.
Areas of Expertise
Maureen has research interests in pain, nursing practice, education and shift work.
Current Research Projects
At present Maureen is working on the following projects: “Work, shiftworking and the mid-life registered nurse: A problematic combination?”
Recent Publications
Books and book chapters
Romanini J, Daly J, Elliott D & Ahern M et al (1994) Cardiovascular problems, in Romanini J & Daly J (eds.)
Critical care nursing: Australian perspectives, W.B. Saunders, Sydney
Journals
West S, Ahern M, Byrnes M & Kwanten L (2006 In Press) New graduate nurse adaptation to shift work: Can we help? Collegian
Omeri A, Malcolm P, Ahern M & Wellington B (2003) Meeting the challenges of cultural diversity in the academic setting. Nursing Education in Practice 3: 5 – 21
Sloman R, Ahern M, Wright A & Brown L (2001) Nurses’ knowledge of pain in the elderly, Journal of Pain & Symptom Management 21 (4): 317 – 322
Glynn G & Ahern M (2000) Determinants of critical care nurses’ pain management behaviour, Australian Critical Care 13 (4): 144 – 151
Snow L, Walker M, Ahern M, O’Brien E & Saltman D (1999) Functional status and health service planning, Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice 19, 99 – 102
Omeri A & Ahern M (1999) Utilising culturally congruent strategies to enhance recruitment and retention of Australian indigenous nursing students, Journal of Transcultural Nursing 10 (2): 150 – 155
Snow L, O’Brien E, Saltman DC & Ahern M (1999) When should we measure functioning? A comparison of serial measurement of the MOS SF-36 in an Australian hospital sample with Australian norms, Australasian Journal of Aging 18 (1): 40 – 43
Lawler J, Ahern M, Stanley A & West S (1997) Who wants to be a Nurse? The Sydney Nursing Research Centre, The University of Sydney.
Recent Presentations
West SH, Ahern MA & Kwanten L (2005) New graduate adaptation to shift work: A major challenge, Paper presented at the Royal College of Nursing Australia, Annual Conference, Adelaide.
West S & Ahern M (2007) Adaptation to shift work: A contributor to New Graduate Nurse attrition? 2nd Recruitment & Retention in the Health Workforce, Queensland Health, Gold Coast, Australia
Grants
TIES
Maureen Ahern, Michelle Maw & Dr Murray Fisher (2007) Nursing Students Numeracy Skills: Assessment and Development, $35,000.00. This project was completed in April 2009.
Maureen Ahern, Melinda Lewis & Associate Professor Sandra West (2008-9) The question is the answer! Facilitating critical thinking through higher-level questioning in the Bachelor of Nursing (Post-registration) $48,467.00.
Awards
Maureen Ahern, Fran Everingham, Dr. Gary Lee, Stuart Newman & Dr. Kate O’Loughlin (2006)
Carrick Citation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for a decade of provision of high quality, innovative and culturally appropriate offshore health professional education programs in Singapore, $10,000.
Areas of Teaching
(Post Registration)
Current Issues in Nursing
Health, Illness and Care: International Perspectives
Graduate Entry Program
Nursing and the Politics of Health Care