Ylona Chun Tie

Projects

7

Publications

13

Awards

8


Contact Details

Senior Lecturer
    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,  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. More recently, Ylona was an invited speaker and attended the 2025 WFCCN council meeting in Dubai where an MOU was signed with both ECCC and the WFCCM to improve access and delivery of critical care healthcare to LMIC.

    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 as an invited Plenary speaker IX Congress International de Enfermeria AMEEMCTI 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 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).

    Full member Margaret Roderick Centre for Mental Health Research

    

    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
    University of Canberra
    Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Mahidol University
    Murdoch University
    National Institutes of Health
    Monash University
    The University of Sydney

    Teaching

    Teaching Interests

    RM8501:06 Research Planning

    RM8502:06 Research Project

    NS3881 Nursing Practice 5

    NS3882 Nursing Practice 6

    Post Graduate Research

    International healthcare workforce

    Internationally qualified nurses

    Cultural diversity and inclusion

    Mental health and wellbeing

    Higher education learning and teaching innovation

    Indigenous Health Studies




    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)
    An occupational perspective of co-occurring transitions for people who migrate to Thailand at retirement.
    Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
    How is Health Information Technology changing Nurses' Social Practices when Caring for Patients?
    Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
    Supporting a Healthy Kinship System for Indigenous Australian Infants: A Cultural Strengths Approach
    Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
    Becoming a Defence member: A Qualitative Study into Construction of the Defence Identity and its impact on Mental Health
    Doctor of Philosophy (Health)
    Making a degree of difference: A grounded theory study of Masters qualified registered nurses in Australia.
    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
    Interprofessional collaborative practice in the physiotherapy private practice setting: A mixed methods study in Northern Queensland
    Doctor of Philosophy (Health)- 2025
    Teaching Grants

    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 Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
    Dunn, Anita; Harrison, Helena; Northam, Holly L.; Chun Tie, Ylona; Birks, Melanie (2024) 'Master of . Heliyon, 10 (15...
    Journal Publication Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
    Birks, Melanie; Harrison, Helena; Zhao, Lin; Wright, Helen; Chun Tie, Ylona; Rathnayaka, Nadun (2024...
    Journal Publication Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
    Heward, Carolyn; Li, Wendy; Chun Tie, Ylona; Waterworth, Pippa (2024) 'A Scoping Review of Military . Military Medicine, 189 (11-12):e2382-e2393. ...
    Journal Publication Open Access 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 Open Access 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 Open Access 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 Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
    Birks, Melanie; Ralph, Nicholas; Cant, Robyn; Chun Tie, Ylona; Hillman, Elspeth (2018) 'Science know. Collegian, 25 (2):2...
    Journal Publication Open Access 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
    Ralph, Nicholas; Birks, Melanie; Cant, Robyn; Chun Tie, Ylona; Hillman, Elspeth (2017) 'How should s. Collegian, 24 (6):5...
    Journal Publication Open Access ResearchOnline@JCU
    Birks, Melanie; Ralph, Nicholas; Cant, Robyn; Hillman, Elspeth; Chun Tie, Ylona (2015) 'Teaching sci. BMC Nursin, 14 (24):...
    Journal Publication Open Access 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 Open Access 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