Penny Heidke

ORCID: 0000-0002-8991-6570
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Research Areas
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Thermal Regulation in Medicine
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Film in Education and Therapy
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Families in Therapy and Culture
  • Communication in Education and Healthcare
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Thermoregulation and physiological responses
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations

Central Queensland University
2017-2025

Queensland University of Technology
2023-2024

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
2023

Noosa Hospital
2017

Monitoring body temperature is essential for safe perioperative care. Without patient monitoring during each surgical phase, alterations in core will not be recognised, prevented, or treated. Safe use of warming interventions also depends on monitoring. Yet there has been limited evaluation practices as the primary endpoint.To investigate all stages We examined what characteristics are associated with rate monitoring, along clinical variables such intervention exposure to hypothermia.An...

10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2023.104508 article EN cc-by-nc-nd International Journal of Nursing Studies 2023-04-28

Abstract Studying at university is stressful, which can lead to unhealthy lifestyle behaviors. This study aimed explore perceived reasons and barriers preventing Australian nursing students from engaging in a healthy strategies overcome barriers. Fifty‐four bachelor of participated seven focus groups between July November 2018. Participants defined behaviors as eating well; regular physical activity; water consumption; limiting alcohol, caffeine, nicotine; good sleep quality; stress...

10.1111/nhs.12749 article EN Nursing and Health Sciences 2020-06-13

ABSTRACT Professional education for licensed nurses in Australia is a complicated matter involving two systems—vocational and training, higher education—each characterized by different curriculum model. The contribution of the systems follows division workforce into Enrolled Nurses Registered Nurses, with vocational serving first second. Although are intended to provide connecting educational career pathways, it results binary landscape featuring distinct forms contrasting assumptions about...

10.1111/nin.70026 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Nursing Inquiry 2025-04-01

Objective: The aim of this paper is to report on registered nurses’ adherence current Australian health behaviour recommendations. Barriers and facilitators healthy lifestyles, their attitudes towards being role models promoting lifestyles patients. Background: It widely accepted that a diet, limiting alcohol consumption, abstinence from smoking regular physical exercise are important components play significant in preventing chronic diseases. Nurses well situated contribute providing...

10.37464/2020.372.65 article EN Australian journal of advanced nursing 2020-04-16

Abstract Lack of time, financial issues, and stressful clinical educational environments in nursing studies promote higher intakes convenience fast foods loaded with fat sugar, which are linked to reduced mental physical health. In this study, we examined the dietary patterns students their associated sociodemographic factors inform development future health‐promotion interventions. A total 548 Bachelor Nursing were invited complete a survey. Associations explored using χ 2 logistic...

10.1111/nhs.12643 article EN Nursing and Health Sciences 2019-08-30

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is being increasingly studied as an indicator wellbeing. This study evaluated the HRQoL nursing students and relationships between lifestyle behaviors including smoking, diet, alcohol intake physical activity. A cross-sectional was conducted in 2018 using Short-Form 12V2 to measure 475 from both regional metropolitan universities Queensland, Australia. z-scores were aggregated into a Physical Composite Score (PCS) Mental (MCS). Multivariate linear...

10.1111/nhs.12832 article EN Nursing and Health Sciences 2021-04-01

Vaccination for COVID-19 has become a cornerstone management plan many countries. Australian state governments made vaccinations mandatory all healthcare workers. Despite evidence on the important role vaccines hold in preventing or decreasing serious disease, there have been nurses and midwives who demonstrated vaccine hesitancy. This hesitancy also present undergraduate nursing midwifery students. The aim of this study was to explore factors influencing students' intentions towards...

10.1016/j.jvacx.2023.100352 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Vaccine X 2023-07-08

Debriefing practices that encourage individuals to reflect and explore emotions clinical reasoning are essential when preparing nursing paramedicine participants for contemporary practice1. There no evaluated debriefing models currently used guide debriefers2. In nursing, available; however, the time spent is often underutilised. 2019, a group of 34 Australian students (n = 20) academics 14) participated in structured debrief allowed equal reasoning. Students chose either act scenario or...

10.1016/j.sctalk.2023.100132 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Science Talks 2023-01-18

Blogging is a practice that educators in creative and professional writing, journalism, communication variety of other writing-based programs utilise to enhance their students’ reflective alongside skills. This article suggests this may be useful non-writing based disciplines, case the discipline nursing, where has been identified as framework assist developing personal growth, problem solving identification innate strengths, allowing maturation difficult environments. It describes use...

10.52086/001c.26855 article EN TEXT 2017-04-30
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