Nursing & Midwifery

APRICOT-NQ: Advancing Pressure Injury Risk Classification & Outcome Testing - North Queensland
Rachel Walker
01 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
• Pressure Injury (PI) continues to be a major problem: In Australia, PI is a significant hospit al-...
Facing the feedback: Exploring students and staff assessment feedback preferences
Peter Hartin
1. Which feedback modalities (text-based, audio and video) do students and staff prefer and what are...
Improving Asthma Outcomes for First Nations Pregnant Mothers: A Co-designed Implementation Strategy
Rachel Walker
30 Jun 2026 - 30 Jun 2030
MRFF – Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative – 2024 Chronic Respiratory Conditions
Evidence, Policy, and PRActice: UNveiling the Gaps in Surgical and Pressure Injury Prevention Care - An Environmental Scan of Four Hospitals: Gold Coast University Hospital; Townsville University Hospital (TUH); The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane; St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney.
Rachel Walker
01 Mar 2025 - 01 Mar 2026
Evidence, Policy, and PRActice: UNveiling the Gaps in Surgical and Pressure Injury Prevention Care -...
Examining final year nursing students’ knowledge, values, beliefs and educational exposure to advance care planning
Rachel Walker
01 Feb 2025 - 01 Feb 2026
Examining final year nursing students’ knowledge, values, beliefs and educational exposure to advanc...
Testing the efficacy of two sacral dressings in preventing pressure injuries in adult intensive care population: TOWARDS ZERO pilot study
Rachel Walker
03 Apr 2026 - 03 Apr 2026
Queensland Health, Health Innovation, Investment and Research Office Nursing and Midwifery Fellowshi...
PHYSIOtherapy management for hypoxaemia following abdominal surgery: walk + talk + breathe + noninvasive ventilation. A pilot, feasibility, randomized controlled trial (PHYSIO+++)
Rachel Walker
01 Jan 2022 - 01 Jan 2025
Metro South Research Support Scheme Project Grant (2022)
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Wiser Wound Care
Rachel Walker
03 Apr 2020 - 03 Apr 2025
Wound care
EffEctiveness of Prophylactic fOam dressings in the prevention of saCral pressureinjuries in at-risk hospitalised patients: The EEPOC Trial
Rachel Walker
10 Mar 2020 - 01 Jun 2026
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant (2018)
Peripherally inserted central catheter Innovation to reduCe Infections and Clots: the PICNIC trial.
Rachel Walker
03 Apr 2018 - 25 Mar 2026
NHMRC Early Career Grant (2018)

Description of a healthy lifestyle intervention for people with serious mental illness taking second-generation antipsychotics

Results of a randomised control trial to test the effectiveness of a nurse led intervention on weight gain for people with serious mental illness

Travel medicine research priorities: establishing an evidence base

The experience of rural midwives in dual roles as nurse and midwife: "I'd prefer midwifery but I chose to live here"

Australian senior adventure travellers to Peru: Maximising older tourists' travel health experience

Teaching health issues in tourism: bringing the two disciplines together

Travellers' perspective on travel health advice in North Queensland/Australia

The health of local tourism employees: a challenge for travel medicine. The case of the Inca Trail porters

Knowledge and behaviour of tourists to Manu National Park, Peru in relation to Leishmaniasis: preliminary findings

Knowledge and practices of tour guides in Cuzco on the prevention and treatment of traveler's diarrhea

Title: Asia Pacific Society of Travel Health
Reseracher: Irmgard Bauer (Adjunct Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2004
Title: Adjunct Professor, Monash University
Reseracher: Melanie Birks (JCU Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2012
Title: Certificate in Safer Healthcare for Australia's First Peoples, Griffith University
Reseracher: Rachel Walker (Professor of Nursing & Midwifery)
End Date: 01 Jan 2018
Title: International Society of Travel Medicine
Reseracher: Irmgard Bauer (Adjunct Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1997
Title: James Cook University Inclusive Practice Award
Reseracher: Peter Hartin (Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2017
Title: World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (WFCCN)
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2023
End Date: 01 Jan 2026
Title: Australasian College of Tropical Medicine
Reseracher: Irmgard Bauer (Adjunct Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2001
End Date: 01 Jan 2013
Title: National OLT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
Reseracher: Peter Hartin (Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2015
Title: University of Tasmania, Course Advisory Committee
Reseracher: Peter Hartin (Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery)
Title: James Cook University, Curriculum Committee
Reseracher: Peter Hartin (Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery)