Rachel Walker

2025 UPDATE

Grants

1.  My current research focus is on pressure injury (PI) prevention. I successfully secured a Townsville University Hospital SERTA Research Capacity Grant [$140,000] in July 2025 to identify predictors of PI using machine learning. 
2. I am also a Chief Investigator of a Medical Research Future Fund project [under embargo] that will involve collaboration with First Nations communities and research related to Women and Children.

Publications

1. Walker RM, Chaboyer W, Latimer S, Thalib L, Tuffaha H, Cooke M, Gillespie BM. EffEctiveness of Prophylactive fOam dressings in the prevention of saCral pressure injuries in at-risk  hospitalised patients (EEPOC): A randomised controlled trail. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 173, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.innurstu.2025.105258
2. Deakin JL, Latimer SL, Walker RM, Dyer B, Gillespie BM. 2025. Predicting Pressure Injury Prevention Education by Acute Care Nurses Within 24 h of Hospital Admission: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Advanced Nursing 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.70181
3. Latimer S, Walker RM, Hewitt J, Ray-Barruel G, Shaw J, Hunt T, Gillespie BM. Testing the study protocol and interrater reliability of a new end-of-life assessment tool: a feasibility study. BMC Palliat Care 24, 2016 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-025-01853-9
4.  Ullman AJ, August D, Kleidon TM, Walker RM, Marsh N, Bulmer AC, Pearch B, Runnegar N, Leema J, Lee-Archer P, Biles C, Gibson V, Royle R, Southham K, Byrnes J, Chopra V, Coulthard A, Mollee P, Rickard CM, Harris PNA, Ware RS. A comparison of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter Materials. New England Journal of Medicine. 2025 Jan 9; 329(2): 161-172. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEjMoa2406815

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