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• Testing the validity of the STRATIFY falls screening tool for use in Queensland hospitals
• Making nursing work - Development of an operational model for assigning advanced nursing roles
• Exploring experiences and associations between breastfeeding outcomes and assisted conception
• Undergoing peripheral blood stem cell collection: the patients' experiences.
• Obstetric patients perspectives and experiences of intensive care following admission for a critical illness or event
• Measuring competence in the operating room: psychometric testing of the revised perceived competence scale
• Quality of life for clients and their carers in the palliative phase of Advanced Heart Failure (AHF)
• Disclosure of clinical errors and unethical behaviour: the impact on midwives and mental health nurses
• Developing leadership capacity to enable best utilisation of the nursing workforce
• Creating a therapeutic environment: trialling a quiet time intervention for patients in acute care.
• Indicators of quality for Australian aged care facilities: establishing reliability, validity and quality benchmarks
• Promoting patient centred care: An investigation of the peri-operative journey.
• A randomised clinical trial comparing two anti-bacterial solutions in the treatment of skeletal pin-sites.
• Child health services: evaluation of support of 'low risk' families with infants aged 0 - 18 months.
• The development of an Australian survey tool to measure nurse's moral sensitivity and hospital ethical climate.
• Lets evaluate the advantages and validity of the exit interview (LEAVE study).
• Development of emotional intelligence in nursing undergraduate students
• Implementing a solution focused model to improve nursing management of young people who self-injure.
• Developing a research base for intravenous peripheral catheter dwell times (The DRIP Trial)
• An exploration of clinical leadership among Registered Nurses in Residential Aged Care in Qld
• Low back pain in nurses: Investigating causes in order to identify a solution
• Enhancing the understanding of clinical decision making for PRN medications within mental health facilities
• The lived experience of chronic persistent pain in rural adults
• Standardising heart failure care in hospital
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of on-line policies and procedures
• An investigation of Complementary Therapy on disruptive behaviour in people with Dementia: A random controlled trial
• Effectiveness of Biotene mouthwash for chemotherapy-induced mucositis: A pilot study
• Mental Health nurses and smoking
• What are the decision making processes that under-pin self management of persistent pain
• Parent & staff perceptions of bereavement support following loss of a child
• Program evaluation of the Aged Care early intervention management strategy
• Against all odds: A retrospective study of women who succeed at breastfeeding despite extraordinary difficulties
• Enhancing self-management of type 2 diabetes in older people
• The effect of supportive telephone counselling on medication compliance in rural consumers with schizophrenia
• Development of competency standards for specialist palliative care nursing practice
• Early detection of swallowing problems in patients with neurological conditions
• Investigating the care trajectory of elderly patients with comorbidities in the acute care setting
• The influence of exercise on behaviour symptomatology, physical and cognitive functioning in people with dementia
• To study child health nursing practice in pharmacy baby clinics
• To develop and evaluate a methodology for practice development that created a sustainable culture of evidence-based practice in nursing
• Enhancing midwives' emotional care of childbearing women - evaluating an educational based intervention
• An investigation into the factors influencing adoption of wireless applications for data management by nurses
• The experience of shame and its meaning for nursing culture
• For an investigation of lay caregivers' perceptions regarding their administration of subcutaneous medications for palliative patients
• An investigation into the efficacy of nipple stimulation for inducing labour when the cervix is favourable
• To conduct the OBS study - observing bedside signs and symptoms: rationalising the use of nursing time
• Indigenous graduates experience of their university nursing education
• An exploratory pilot study of nursing practice that support patients' rights through dignified care
• Student understanding of the role of the registered nurse buddy during facilitated clinical experience
• The effectiveness of massage with aromatherapy on occupational stress levels of emergency department nursing staff
• Evaluation of a model of radiation oncology nursing practice
• An evaluation of the effectiveness of a Co-ordinated Team Preceptorship Model in the clinical setting.
• Health Issues and Violence: Women's Perspectives
• Post traumatic stress disorder in intensive care unit survivors
• The Toowoomba Adult Trauma Tool (TATTT)
• An evaluation of the impact of undertaking screening for domestic violence on nurses and midwives.
• Health related quality of life 2-3 years after total hip replacement surgery
• Clinical Pathway Evaluation: An evidence based study of the nursing care of children with bronchiolitis
• The social functioning of young males with psychotic disorders: An evaluation of a psychosocial group intervention.
• Evaluation of an educational intervention to improve paediatric pain management by nurses.
• Home-based care for advanced cancer patients: the impact on family carers.
• A randomised controlled trial of nursing interventions for managing patients with chronic venous leg ulcers.
• Exploring paediatric nurses experiences of negotiating and maintaining professional boundaries with children and families.
• Removal of Catheter (ROC) trial.
• Successful strategies for the retention of indigenous students in nursing courses
• The impact of organisational climate on the efficacy of a Transition Support Programme.
• The long term impact of hospitalisation on patients reported sleep quality
• Family outcomes following client transfer from an Intensive Care Unit: an educational intervention.
• The administration and supply of controlled and restricted medications by Queensland rural/remote area nurses.
• Development and validation of a pain assessment tool for use with cognitively impaired adults.
• Comparing perceptions of care in the intermediate postnatal period from mothers and health professionals.
• Exploring the development of an appropriate women's health service for Mt Isa City.
• Analysis of the chemotherapy education needs of rural and remote area nurses
• Pain intensity and vomiting in children following tonsillectomy and adeno-tonsillectomy
• An investigation into the relationship between fluid warmers and core temperature in patients treated with Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT)
• An investigation of the cultural and procedural factors that impact on hospital infection rates.
• The role and activities of the occupational health nurse: an Australian perspective.
• A randomised trial of a fatigue management intervention for breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy
• Improving emotional care for childbearing women: an intervention study
• Nursing responses to patients who self injure
• Transition to fatherhood: an Australian study
• The Experience of Long-term Mechanical Ventilation in a Critical Care Unit
• The socialisation of beginning nursing students in academia to prevent ageism: An action theory approach.
• An exploration of the midwife-client relationship in maternity services that provide for continuity of care
• Descriptions by informal care givers of formal palliative care nursing interventions at home.
• Coronary Heart Disease and quality of life - To what extent can a cardiac rehabilitation program make a difference?
• Postnatal depression: enhancement of predictive index
• Continuity of care in older patients discharged following hip replacement surgery
• A survey of Queensland public sector nurse executives: responsibilities, job satisfaction and professional development needs.
• Nurses facilitating empowerment: The informational needs of the newly diagnosed person with Multiple Sclerosis and their family.
• Education choices of acute medical/surgical RNS with 20 years or more experience.
• Factors influencing the administration of PRN psychotropic medications in acute mental health settings
• A description and evaluation of the implementation of innovative nursing practice in dementia care
• Closed versus open moisture chamber for the prevention of corneal epithelial breakdown
• Sense-making of dialysis-dependency: a constructivist approach
• A single cohort study of physiological vs active management of third stage labour for women assessed as being of low risk of post partum haemorrhage
• Surviving breast cancer: stories from rural women.
• Beyond the hospital wall: the expanding role of the infection control nurse
• Physical restraint use in nursing homes - a grounded theory analysis of nurse's experiences
• Ratification of ACORN competencies for perioperative nurses: utilising action research
• The preliminary development of a stressors and resources scale for AMI (Acute Myocardial Infarction) couples
• Proposed investigation to determine if nurse initiated x-rays will reduce the total time spent in Emergency Dept for triage category (3, 4 & 5) patients with suspected bony injury
• A comparison of critical care and non critical care nursing practice
• Women's choice: a maternity option focusing on a midwifery model of antenatal care
• Analysis of models of care of children in hospitals in developed and developing countries
• Clinical Partnership Models: an exploration of creating learning environments for undergraduate nursing students
• Development of a scale to assess cancer patients' self efficacy with managing symptoms and treatment side effects
• The final stages of dying: a participatory action research study based on domiciliary nursing practice
• The effects of head position in children on continuous jugular venous oxygen saturation readings
• The specialist nurse: an investigation of the common and distinct aspects of nursing practice
• Making the most of learning opportunities with the use of learning logs and computer-supported collaborative learning in post-registration nurse educator
• In pursuit of the quality use of medications: empowering patients through self-education
• Implementing the Code of Professional Conduct: developing an effective continuing education model
• General Practice Nurses: Current Scope of Practice and Potential Expanded Role.
• Factors impeding nurse-patient interaction on an acute psychiatric unit: an exploration
• A professional development program for rural nurses: improving supportive communication in terminal care
• The type and usefulness of information given to patients about pain relief and wound care on their discharge home
• Effectiveness of pressure ulcer screening tools for preventing pressure ulcers. A randomised controlled trial.
• Developmental surveillance in high-risk children: a nursing response to a growing health service dilemma (6 month cohort)
• Promotion of physical and psychosocial well being of nurses in a regional Queensland hospital
• Identifying practice nurses’ roles and responsibilities in child health and development: an online survey
• Development of a scale to measure neonatal nurses’ self-efficacy to practice
• Nurses Keeping “KIDS-SAFE”. Implementing best practice into the PICU
• Information transfer for multi-trauma patients upon discharge from the Emergency Department
• SMS reminders and incentive payments: will they increase re-screening for clients diagnosed with C. trachomatis?
• Does protocol initiated discharge improve patient flow and patient satisfaction?
• Prevention of weight gain with second generation antipsychotics: a nurse led intervention
• Prevalence and determinants of the health-promotion and risk reduction practices of younger female survivors of cancer
• Nurses’ experienced of working with CALD nurse undergoing transition in a Queensland Health setting
• Trial of an information package to prevent sleep loss in carers of people with dementia
• From incubator to open cot: an investigation of optimal timing for preterm infants
• Beautiful one day: What next? Work satisfaction of overseas qualified nurses in far North Queensland
• Self-efficacy, functional performance and quality of life in geriatric rehabilitation units
• Development of a tool to measure practicing nurses’ perception about support for their teaching role
• What informs nurses’ clinical decision making in relation to activation or non-activation of the MET
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