Nursing & Midwifery 1

Andrea Grimes

Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery
andrea.grimes@jcu.edu.au

Megan Dale

Lecturer, Nursing & Midwifery
megan.dale1@jcu.edu.au

Elspeth Hillman

Lecturer
elspeth.hillman@jcu.edu.au

Student Perspectives on GenAI Integration in Higher Education

Megan Dale - Nursing & Midwifery 1

10 Dec 2025

Background Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming tertiary education, offering students personalised, interactive and adaptive learning experiences. GenAI tools support feedback, engagement, identify learning gaps and generate tailored resources that enhance academic performance and autonomy (Zhan et al., 2025; Park et al., 2025). While students are eager to use GenAI (Alenazi & Alhalal, 2025), institutional policies and educator practices often lag behind. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA, 2024) highlights the need for strategic planning across process, people and practice to ensure ethical and effective integration. Educators are beginning to use GenAI for personalised resources and administrative efficiency (Kim et al, 2025; Moorhouse et al., 2024), but student trust in these practices is essential. Misalignment or lack of transparency may undermine engagement and perceptions of educational integrity. Aim To explore student perspectives on GenAI integration in tertiary education, focusing on its use in learning and teaching.

Exploring registered nurses understanding of micro trauma: A hybrid concept analysis

Megan Dale - Nursing & Midwifery 1

26 Jul 2024 - 10 Apr 2025

The aim of this project is to explore registered nurses’ understanding of micro trauma. A hybrid concept analysis using qualitative enquiry will be undertaken. Current literature does not specifically use the term micro trauma but describes the frequency and impact of endpoints of micro traumas such as burnout and compassion fatigue. Without acknowledgment of an individual’s lived experiences and the influence and impact those experiences have on overall health and wellbeing, it is difficult to fully understand the root causes of what creates harm in nurses. The inference in the literature to micro trauma existing and, that the culmination of micro traumas manifesting in to known phenomenon such as burnout, compassion fatigue and cumulative trauma, has steered the methodology of this project to undertake a concept analysis as the first stage.

The extent, cause and direct healthcare costs of non-fatal deliberate self-harm in Far North Queensland (Old ID 26649)

Natalie Conley - Nursing & Midwifery 1

20 Jan 2020 - 20 Jan 2021

This project aims to perform a retrospective epidemiological analysis of hospital-treated self-harm episodes to determine the incidence, prevalence, characteristics and healthcare costs of self-harm in Far North Queensland.

A sequential explanatory mixed methods approach to examining the experiences and perceptions of nurses treating persons who self-harm.

Natalie Conley - Nursing & Midwifery 1

30 Sep 2024 - 30 Sep 2025

Nurses are often the initial provider of treatment and care to persons who self-harm. However, research suggests that the attitudes and perceptions of nurses towards people who self-harm is quite negative. This project aims to investigate and understand the experiences of nurses at Cairns Hospital who have treated persons that have self-harmed to inform the development of a potential future education intervention.