- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Usability and User Interface Design
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Online and Blended Learning
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring
- Social Media in Health Education
- Quality and Safety in Healthcare
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- E-Learning and COVID-19
- Risk Perception and Management
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Accounting and Organizational Management
- Conflict Management and Negotiation
University of Alberta
2024-2025
Healthwise
2016-2021
Australian National University
2011-2020
Mercy Hospital
2020
Children's Mercy Hospital
2017-2020
University of Canberra
2013-2018
ACT Government
2014-2016
Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre
2016
Humana (United States)
2016
Office of Infectious Diseases
2015
Reading relies on the incremental processes that occur across all words in a passage to build global comprehension of text. Factorial experimental designs are not well-suited examine these processes, which influenced by multilevel factors an overlapping manner. Exemplifying alternative approach, we combined event-related potentials, probabilistic language models, authentic texts, and statistical methods time course linguistic influences during reading each word. We found indicators initial...
Many studies have shown that morphological knowledge has effects on reading comprehension separate from other aspects of language knowledge. This implications for instruction and assessment: it suggests children could difficulties are due to a lack knowledge, thus, explicit morphology might be helpful them, indeed all children. To find who especially benefit specific in morphology, we would need good tests We evaluated set awareness assessments determine whether they conclusively tapped into...
The development of wind energy in Australia has been subject to ongoing public debate and characterised by concerns over the health impacts turbines. Using discursive psychology, we examine 'wind turbine syndrome' as a contested illness analyse how people build undermine divergent arguments about wind-farm effects. This article explores two facets dispute. First, consider participants construct 'facts' effects farms. We rhetorical resources used farms harmful or benign. Second, local...
Objectives: Screening of immunization status at each health care encounter is recommended to improve coverage rates but often limited primary practices. A pilot intervention study was performed ascertain the hospitalized children and determine if development an plan before discharge would vaccination for such children. Methods: On basis power calculations estimated detect increase in from 60% 70% with 80% power, 356 randomly selected were enrolled between March 6, 2012 June 14, 2012....
Despite growing interest in evaluative inquiry as a trigger for development of organizational learning capacity, there exists paucity empirical research this area. This is particularly the case context schools, where systematic to support decision making and problem solving hardly mainstream activity. The purpose present was examine nature benefits schools understand forces that serve enhance or impede propensity embrace making. We selected four that, on basis prior field survey, scored...
Immunization education for physicians-in-training is crucial to address vaccine concerns in clinical practice. Vaccine not standardized across residency programs. The Collaboration Vaccination Education and Research (CoVER) team developed an online curriculum pediatric (Peds) family medicine (FM) residents.A cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) was performed during the 2017-2018 academic year evaluate CoVER curriculum. A convenience sample of institutions were randomly allocated...
This investigation was motivated by physician reports that patient compliments often raise 'red flags' for them, raising questions about whether are being used in the service of achieving some kind advantage. Our goal to understand discomfort with through analyses audiotaped surgeon-patient encounters. Using conversation analysis, we demonstrate both placement and design consequential how surgeons hear respond them. The offered after treatment recommendations neither designed nor positioned...
This article examines the significant interactional work undertaken by orthopedic surgeons in delivery of recommendations not for surgery—recommendations against surgery or nonsurgical treatment. Surgeons recurrently use a number features prior to these recommendations: Projecting turns, parenthetical remarks, brightsides, logical inferences and syllogisms, general case/usual course descriptions, turns that display relevance surgery. Through features, manage, treat as relevant, issues...
Cognitive bias is the tendency to subconsciously change ones actions or thought process based on someone else’s comments behavior. It important consider cognitive when performing a usability study because it can significantly alter impair validity of results. While cannot always be entirely eliminated, identifying key biases which results are particularly susceptible first step mitigating them. Once experimenters alert these subtle traps, they approaches that sidestep and greatly improve...
This article examines treatment recommendations in orthopedic surgery consultations and shows how is treated as "omni-relevant" within this activity, providing a context which the broad range of proposed by surgeons offered. Using conversation analysis to analyse audiotaped encounters between patients, we highlight treat having special, privileged status relative other options (1) invoking (whether or not it actually being recommended) (2) presenting "last best resort" (in relation are...
In an era where digital and co‐present involvements become entangled, the role of face‐to‐face conversation now vies with mediated communication. Applying insights provided by Erving Goffman, we explore conversational interaction consider how engrossing can be understood as a form socialized trance. We this represents one type “involvement obligation” that disrupted and, increasingly, uniquely impacted are enabled through mobile “smart” devices. The crux argument is considered in context...
Introduction: The Nurse Practitioner - Aged Care Models of Practice Initiative supported the roll-out a range nurse practitioner (NP) models practice, across Australia. One these was community-based clinic-located situated in remote tourist destination where there is no resident general practitioner. Services were delivered by NP to local population as well many seasonal tourists passing through region. These included growing number older people, whom had chronic health conditions such...
Meeting the primary health care needs of an aging population is increasing challenge for many Western nations. In Australia, federal government introduced a program to develop, test, and evaluate nurse practitioner models in aged settings. this article, we present documentary analysis 32 project proposals awarded funding under Nurse Practitioner–Aged Care Models Practice Program. Successfully funded were diverse operated by range organizations across Australia. We identified three key...
In the field of antenatal care, there is limited research studying communication between midwives and pregnant women in authentic consultations. This paper addresses this gap. Based on transcripts 16 consultations from a private obstetric practice, we examine agreements as examples affiliation Using conversation analysis, discuss ways that agreement accomplished institutional setting. We identify clusters back-to-back upgraded high-grade agreements. Through agreements, validate endorse...
This paper examines how participants in psychotherapy reconnect at the beginning of sessions through 'updates', and role time references managing this activity stage. Drawing on 18 from a corpus 123 audio-recorded between one client her therapist over course two years utilizing principles conversation analysis, we show updates near sessions, producing new or newly relevant tellings about aspects herself life, for example, events happenings, developments personal relationships, changes...
<ns4:p>This article was migrated. The not marked as recommended. Background: Vaccine education during residency is standardized. Little known about resident perspectives on vaccines and ideal vaccine training. Methods: A convenience sample of pediatric family medicine (FM) residents were surveyed using a de novo 22 question survey to understand current preferred curriculum. Responses analyzed categorically compared by year Fisher's Exact test. Results: In October 2016, 126 from 9 FM programs...
In its location at the intersection of political science and psychology, psychology draws on many research techniques both disciplines in exploration power, voting behavior, leadership, attitudes, values. One hitherto relatively underutilized approach for understanding public policy debate is discursive (DP). Applying this perspective to a contentious issue Australia, we seek demonstrate that can add richness depth our how ordinary citizens engage debates. We suggest type analysis augment...