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-acquired complication requiring early clinical intervention(3). Hospital-acquired PI (HAPI) are a persistent and serious patient safety threat(1, 3) and financially burdensome. HAPI prevalence remains high (between 8-10%(4, 5), and the cost is substantial, estimated to be $9 billion per year in Australian public hospitals(6). • Current risk assessment is inadequate: Existing tools like the Waterlow Score and Braden Scales(7, 8) are outdated, subjective, and lack robust validation(9). They were developed using small samples and without advanced statistical methods(10, 11). This raises ethical concerns about their continued use. • Need for better solutions: A new approach is therefore urgently needed to bridge this gap in knowledge to accurately classify PI, their risk factors and effective prevention strategies.• Machine learning challenges: While AI and machine learning offer potential solutions, they are hampered by the poor quality of existing PI risk assessment data(9); exemplifying the "garbage in, garbage out" principle. • Data quality issues: PI documentation is often free text, incomplete, and inaccurate, further complicating the problem. This unstructured data makes it difficult to train reliable machine learning models.
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 the key factors driving student and staff preferences for feedback delivery? 2. What is the effectiveness of the feedback modalities (text-based, audio and video) in promoting student engagement with and utilisation of feedback? 3. What are the benefits and challenges experienced by staff with using the different feedback modalities (text-based, audio and video)?
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)
Title: Post Graduate Certificate of Nursing Science (Intensive Care), James Cook University
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2000
End Date: 01 Jan 2002
Title: Bachelor of Nursing Science, James Cook University, James Cook University
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 1996
End Date: 01 Jan 1998
Title: Bachelor of Nursing , Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University)
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
End Date: 01 Jan 1992
Title: Graduate Diploma of Education, Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University)
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
End Date: 01 Jan 1993
Title: Master of Arts , Deakin University
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
End Date: 01 Jan 1997
Title: Doctor of Philosophy , Deakin University
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
End Date: 01 Jan 2004
Title: Master of Public Health (with Distinction), James Cook University
Reseracher: Jenny Kelly (Associate Professor, Nursing and Midwifery)
End Date: 01 Jan 2013
Title: Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine
Reseracher: Irmgard Bauer (Adjunct Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2016
Title: Golden Key International Honor Society
Reseracher: Irmgard Bauer (Adjunct Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2002
Title: Advances in Critical Care Medicine: AI and digital Health Technologies
Reseracher: Ylona Chun Tie (Senior Lecturer)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2025