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Ylona Chun Tie

Projects

1

Publications

12

Awards

8


Contact Details

Associate Dean, Research Education

Biography

Dr Ylona Chun Tie, Associate Dean, Research Education for the College of Healthcare Sciences. Dr Chun Tie is an experienced registered nurse and senior academic with qualifications in nursing, critical care, health professional education, advanced nursing practice, doctoral research, and corporate governance. Ylona is a Fellow and Life Member of the ACCCN, holds national and international executive board appointments with the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (WFCCN) and the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). Ylona is active on a number of state and national committees including the Australian College of Nurses Global Health Faculty, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (AhpraNMBA) Registered Nurse Examination Committee, and chair of the Global Health Advisory Panel (GHAP) for Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) ANZICS/ACCCN.

Dr Chun Tie is recognised as an expert on cross cultural healthcare, internationally qualified healthcare workforce, with a focus on wellbeing and retention. In addition, Ylona has a special interest in critical care and building leadership capacity in LMICs.   Ylona’s vison is dedicated to work with community to co design resources that will improve the knowledge and capacity of nurse leaders, and particularly those working in low resource setting to deliver safe quality healthcare.  Ylona was an invited speaker and attended the 2024 WFCCN council meeting in Dubai where an MOU was signed with the World Health Organization to work on projects that support the emergency, critical, and operative care initiative to improve patient care in LMICs in these areas.

In 2024 Dr Chun Tie represented JCU as an invited panel chair at the PAH seminar, a keynote speaker at  ECCC conference in Dubai and 21st South Pacific Nurses Forum in PNG, and is an invited Plenary speaker at a healthcare conference in Leon, Mexico, to share her understanding of the cultural context of healthcare delivery and to promote international collaboration and research.

Dr Chun Tie is an advisor for nine HDRs PhD candidates and welcomes cross collaboration between health professions. Dr Chun Tie is a ECR Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, and a peer reviewer for several international peer refereed journals and textbooks.

Dr Chun Tie is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence.

Dr Chun Tie is a recipient of the JCU 2020 Award for Excellence in the category of Leadership.

Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2022).

Appointed as a Commissioner for Declarations (2013).



Research

Research Interests

Grounded Theory

Qualitative research methodology and methods

Internationally qualified nurses and healthcare professionals

Science content in nursing curriculum, Teaching Science content

Qualitative data analysis

Mental health

Psychology

Evidence-Based Practice

Translational research


Projects
Research Collaborators and Partners
Murdoch University

Teaching

Research Advisor Accreditation
Advisor Type

Mentor

Research Advisor Accreditation
Role

Chair; Independent Academic


Taught Modules
Current JCU Research Students
Clubfoot in the Northern Territory
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
Psychedelic harm reduction and integration for psilocybin users in Australia: An evaluation of harm reduction and integration interventions
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
Interprofessional collaborative practice in the physiotherapy private practice setting: A mixed methods study in Northern Queensland
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
How is Health Information Technology changing Nurses' Social Practices when Caring for Patients?
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
Online Postgraduate Nursing Programs in Australia - Impact on Professional Practice
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
A Single Centre comparison of Efficacy and user experience of Open-source do-it-yourself Artificial PancreasSystems against commercially available Hybrid-closed Loop Insulin Pump Systems in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes
Doctorate by Research - time-based
Becoming a Defence member: A Qualitative Study into Construction of the Defence Identity and its impact on Mental Health
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
An occupational perspective of co-occurring transitions for people who migrate to Thailand at retirement.
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
Supporting a Healthy Kinship System for Indigenous Australian Infants: A Cultural Strengths Approach
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
Completed JCU Research Students
Caring Under Fire: A Grounded Theory of Contemporary Australian Army Nursing Officers in Armed Conflict
Doctor of Philosophy (Health)- 2024

Activities

Other Activities
Education
Associations
Awards
Outreach
Media
Employment
Consultancy
Committees

Output

Chun Tie, Ylona Audrey Diana (2019) Playing the game: a grounded theory study of the integration of . [Thesis] [DOI] ...
Other Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Heward, Carolyn; Li, Wendy; Chun Tie, Ylona; Waterworth, Pippa (2024) 'A Scoping Review of Military . Military Medicine, . [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Birks, Melanie; Harrison, Helena; Zhao, Lin; Wright, Helen; Chun Tie, Ylona; Rathnayaka, Nadun (2024...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Browne, Caroline; Chun Tie, Ylona (2024) 'Promoting Well-being: A Scoping Review of Strategies Imple. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 6 . [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Chun Tie, Ylona; Birks, Melanie; Francis, Karen (2019) 'Playing the game: a grounded theory of the i. Collegian, 26 :470-476. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Chun Tie, Ylona; Birks, Melanie; Francis, Karen (2019) 'Grounded theory research: a design framework. SAGE Open Medicine, 7 :1-8. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Chun Tie, Ylona; Birks, Melanie; Mills, Jane (2018) 'The experience of internationally qualified reg. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 29 (3):274-284. [DOI] ...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Birks, Melanie; Ralph, Nicholas; Cant, Robyn; Chun Tie, Ylona; Hillman, Elspeth (2018) 'Science know. Collegian, 25 (2):2...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Ralph, Nicholas; Birks, Melanie; Cant, Robyn; Chun Tie, Ylona; Hillman, Elspeth (2017) 'How should s. Collegian, 24 (6):5...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Birks, Melanie; Ralph, Nicholas; Cant, Robyn; Hillman, Elspeth; Chun Tie, Ylona (2015) 'Teaching sci. BMC Nursin, 14 (24):...
Journal Publication ResearchOnline@JCU
Chun Tie, Ylona (2024) 'Strategies to integrate culturally and linguistically diverse nurses into fo International Journal of Nursing Studies, 27 (1) :21-21. [DOI] ...
Journal Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Chun Tie, Ylona (2023) 'JCN Editor’s Choice [Involving Families in the Care of Indigenous Infants: A Journal of Clinical Nursing, January, 2023 . ...
Journal Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU