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)

Perceptions of hand hygiene amongst health care workers in Sibu, East Malaysia

The challenges experienced by Iranian war veterans living with chemical warfare poisoning: a descriptive, exploratory study

Candiru – a little fish with bad habits: Need travel health professionals worry? A review

Providing travel health care – the nurses' role: an international comparison

Motivations to nurse: an exploration of what motivates students in Pacific Island countries to enter nursing

Discharge planning in mental health care: an integrative review of the literature

The use of physical assessment skills by registered nurses in Australia: issues for nursing education

"I don't want to become a scientist": undergraduate nursing students' perceived value of course content

Babies and machines that go 'beep': first year nursing students' preferred areas of future practice

Undergraduate nursing studies: the first-year experience

Title: Townsville University Hospital Research Committee
Reseracher: Rachel Walker (Professor of Nursing & Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2024
Title: Townsville Hospital and Health Service, Research Trust Advisory Committee
Reseracher: Rachel Walker (Professor of Nursing & Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2024
Title: Invited reviewer ACCCN’s Critical Care Nursing textbook
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: Journal of Clinical Nursing
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018
End Date: 01 Jan 2025
Title: Australian College of Nursing
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2011
Title: Principal Research Officer, James Cook University
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2023
Title: Research Officer, CQUniversity
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2020
End Date: 01 Jan 2023
Title: Senior Research Officer, Queensland Health
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2017
End Date: 01 Jan 2019
Title: Making change happen within a diverse workforce: Hearing the voices of nurses. National Nurses Forum, Sydney
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2017
Title: The strength of diversity in Australia’s nursing workforce: Contribution of internationally qualified nurses. National Nursing Forum, Gold Coast
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018