A5048947936- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Community Health and Development
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Nursing education and management
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
La Trobe University
2020-2025
Melbourne Health
2015-2024
Peter Doherty Institute
2016-2018
Mental health nurses aim to provide high-quality care that is safe and person-centred. Service users require individualized care, responsive their preferences, needs, values. The views of service users, mental nurses, nurse academics, psychiatrists, managers about the core competencies have not been explored. Our study aimed describe contrast multiple stakeholder groups on nurses. Concept mapping a six-step mixed-methods design combines qualitative data with principal component analysis...
To review the programmatic use of tuberculin skin test (TST) following tuberculosis (TB) exposure in Victoria, Australia.A retrospective data collected for public health surveillance was performed to identify contact demographic factors, including bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) status and age outcomes TST.Contact tracing 15 094 people, whom 13 427 (89.0%) had a TST performed. The positive 31.4% (95%CI 30.6-32.2) all contacts, 48.8% contacts born outside Australia. Amongst who were...
To evaluate care cascades for programmatic active case finding and latent TB infection (LTBI) management in young child contacts (aged <5 years) Victoria, Australia.This was a retrospective review of public health surveillance data to identify all pulmonary cases notified from 2016 2019.Contact tracing identified 574 251 cases. Active found 28 (4.9%) contacts, none whom had previously received bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination, 529 were tested using the tuberculin skin test (TST). The...
Objective: The aim of the study was to describe patterns injuries sustained by nurses during restraining aggressive patients and identify factors in process that can be modified improve safety restraining. Design: Within‑method triangulation used this involved two quantitative data collection methods. Setting: An adult acute psychiatric unit Victoria, Australia. Subjects: Seven male twenty‑six female nurses. Main outcome measures: measures are ways reducing injuries. Results: Incident...
Regionality is often a significant factor in tuberculosis (TB) management and outcomes worldwide. A wide range of context-specific factors may influence these differences change over time. We compared TB treatment regional metropolitan areas, considering demographic temporal trends affecting diagnosis outcomes.Retrospective analyses data for patients notified with Victoria, Australia, were conducted. The study delays outcomes. Multivariable Cox proportional hazard model performed to...
Globally, rates of tuberculosis (TB) cases in prisons are substantially higher than the general population. The goal this study was to review TB notifications Victorian correctional facilities, and consider whether additional interventions towards elimination may be useful setting. All patients who were notified with or treated for Australian state Victoria from 1 January 2003 December 2017 included study. Descriptive analysis performed. Demographic treatment outcome data individuals without...
This study aims to identify and contrast key stakeholder perspectives about the core competencies of mental health nurses. Mental nurses provide much direct care treatment patients with disorders. The users services, nurses, nurse clinical leaders, psychiatrists, academics regarding a are informative improve quality given patients. We will use concept mapping compare views different groups (n = 50, 10 per group) (knowledge, skills, attitudes) There six stages in mapping: preparation,...
Higher levels of educational preparation for nurses are associated with lower mortality rates in both medical and surgical wards. In mental health inpatient wards, few studies have examined whether specialist nurse training has any impact on patient outcomes. The aim this retrospective observational study was to establish the feasibility extracting linking education outcome data from hospital administrative sources inform design future nursing skill mix studies. Study participants were...
International research on nursing skill mix has focused primarily medical and surgical patient populations. The association between clinical outcomes for psychiatric inpatients not been explored. aim of this study is to establish the feasibility extracting linking nurse inpatient data from hospital administrative sources. This an observational study. Data will be extracted sources linked together. Patient information include duration number admissions. We extract educational preparation...