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Nursing the future: celebrating research in nursing and midwifery
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Date: Tuesday 9 June 2009
Location: Monash University Clayton campus – Building 25, Rooms S1 & S2
Time: 8.30am – 4.00pm, Followed by cocktail function at the Strip
The School of Nursing and Midwifery is committed to engaging
in academic-clinical partnerships in research with the aim of
generating clinically relevant knowledge. Towards this aim the
research agenda remains contemporary, in addressing issues
of relevance to clinical practice. This ensures that translational
research remains dominant, in improving outcomes for patients
and families as well as for the staff and the organisations in which
they work.
During the Symposium, two concurrent sessions will showcase
the breadth and complexity of nursing research encompassing
the key research areas in the School, as well as early career
researcher activity. Utilising a range of methodologies, the key
areas are: starting life well, psychological health in life, Health
in crisis and the final phase of life, combining aspects like
educational models and rurality.
This one day symposium also marks the inauguration of the
School’s presence on the Clayton campus.
Keynote Speaker:
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Jan Duke has professional qualifications in nursing, midwifery
and social work. Between 2000 and 2008 Jan was Professor
of Nursing and Head of the Graduate School of Nursing,
Midwifery and Health at Victoria University of Wellington
in New Zealand. Prior to this she had held senior nursing
academic positions at RMIT University and the University of
Sydney.
Jan also has expertise in professional regulation. She worked
for a time as the CEO of the ANCI, has worked for WHO developing professional regulatory frameworks in Vanuatu
and Cambodia and is currently working with the New Zealand Social Workers Registration Board.
Jan’s qualification in social work and her early work as a
community development social worker has had a strong
influence on her professional nursing career. It has ensured
that she always sought to engage with and be attentive to
the needs of all communities, particularly those that are more
vulnerable and have less access to resources. This has focused
Jan’s more recent work on the need for community engaged
scholarship for nursing and allied health professions and the
challenges this presents for health professional schools in the
current environment.
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