Research Projects
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 - An Environmental Scan of Four Hospitals: Gold Coast University Hospital; Townsville University Hospital (TUH); The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane; St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney.
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 advance care planning
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 Fellowship
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)
Identifying acute wound care priorities to inform research and an evidence-based practice agenda across two hospitals
Rachel Walker
03 Apr 2017 - 03 Apr 2019
Gold Coast Health (GCH) and the Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Grant Scheme, 2017
Vascular AccesS Catheter Use in Latin AmeRica (VASCULAR) study
Rachel Walker
03 Apr 2016 - 03 Apr 2020
Becton Dickson Industry Grant, USD$55, 285.