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About CDNM – Executive Committee
The Council is governed by an Executive Committee consisting of four office-bearers – the Chair, the Deputy Chair/Secretary, the Immediate Past Chair and the Treasurer – one New Zealand member and three ordinary members.
Chair
Professor Patrick Crookes
Head, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health
Dean, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue WOLLONGONG NSW 2522
Phone: (+61) 2 4221 3174 Fax: (+61) 2 4221 3137
Email: pcrookes@uow.edu.au
Professor Patrick Crookes RN BSc (Nursing) RNT Cert Ed PhD MRCNA is the Dean of the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Wollongong and currently holds a Chair in Nursing. Professor Crookes is Chair of the Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (ANZ) having been on the Executive of Council since 2001. Between 2006 and 2009, Professor Crookes was Coordinator of the National Project Group for Dementia Training and Study Centres around Australia whilst also being Deputy Director of the Eastern Australia Dementia Training and Studies Centre. Professor Crookes has a clinical background in cardio-respiratory nursing, then chose to specialise in nursing education, first in the hospital sector and then in HE.
Professor Crookes has over 25 years experience as a nurse educator, the last 17 of which have been in Universities in Australia and the UK (Universities of Sydney; Sheffield and Wollongong). In each University, Professor Crookes has been heavily involved in curriculum review, development and implementation. A significant component of his teaching and research over time has focused on how best to teach research skills for which he received a Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning in 2007.
Professor Crookes has experience in project leadership and management and in recent years has won grants including the development of a journal ranking system for Nursing and Midwifery journals; and the development of a generic clinical learning assessment tool for undergraduate nurses, for use by all Universities across Australia (ALTC grant).
Deputy chair
Professor Wendy Cross
Head, School of Nursing and Midwifery
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Building 13 Monash University
Wellington Road CLAYTON VIC 3800
Tel: (+61) 3 9905 4843 Fax: (+61) 3 9905 4837
Email: wendy.cross@monash.edu
Professor Wendy Cross joined Monash University in 2007 as Associate Professor, Mental Health Nursing, in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Prior to commencing her work at Monash Wendy held senior appointments in nursing at Southern Health, Deakin University and the University of Western Sydney.
Wendy has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Advanced Nursing from Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, a Master of Education by research (Ed Psych) from Monash University and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of NSW.
Wendy’s primary research interests include mental health and mental health nursing, clinical supervision, practice development, workplace learning, and broad based research methods including both quantitative and qualitative paradigms. She is currently involved in funded research projects on early psychosis, clinical supervision, evaluation of mental health services and workplace learning.
Treasurer
Professor Catherine Turner
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Faculty of Health Sciences
The University of Queensland
11 Salisbury Road IPSWICH QLD 4305
Tel: (+61) 7 3381 1165 Fax: (+61) 7 3381 1166
Email: nursing-midwifery@uq.edu.au
Cathy Turner has nursing and education qualifications, clinical experience in critical care and emergency nursing and a PhD in population health.
Since 1992 Cathy has been involved in the tertiary education of nurses and in 2000 Cathy joined the School of Population Health [UQ] to teach epidemiology and coordinate the Master of Public Health Program.
Concurrently her background in nursing education led her to develop and implement a new undergraduate nursing program at UQ in 2004 for which she received a UQ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005. It is in this context that Cathy brought together a research team with a range of expertise to focus on workforce issues within the nursing and midwifery professions and population health outcomes by establishing the Nurses & Midwives e-cohort which is funded by the Australian Research Council and a range of industry partners.This has also led to the establishment of the Doctors e-cohort and Graduate e-cohort studies.
In 2006 Cathy received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to spend several months at Harvard University learning about longitudinal study methods from the Nurses’ Health Study research group. Cathy has also been awarded an NHMRC Fellowship [2007-2011] for her research on the e-cohort studies.
In 2008 Cathy commenced as Head of the UQ School of Nursing and Midwifery, was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from Flinders University, and became a member of the Board of Directors of the Mater Health Services.
In 2011 Cathy was appointed as an Assistant Commissioner of the Health Quality and Complaints Commisssion Queensland (HQCC).
Cathy has published over 90 peer reviewed journal publications and conference presentations and attracted over $4million in competitive ARC, NHMRC and industry grant funding within the last 5 years as the lead investigator.
New Zealand Member
Associate Professor Annette Huntington
Nursing Programme
School of Health Sciences
Massey University
Tel: (+64) 4801 2794
Email: A.D.Huntington@massey.ac.nz
Annette is currently an Associal Professor in the School of Health Sciences, Massey University (Wellington Campus). Annette is also Chair of the Nursing Council of New Zealand (2004-2006) and in April 2005 was appointed Colonel Commandant of the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps.
Annette has extensive experience in post-graduate nursing education, and the development of research in nursing. Her research has been in the area of women’s health, including more recently the health of nurses and the identification and impact of workplace stress. Her focus in nursing has been the promotion of clinical excellence through research, advanced practice roles and relevant policy development. Annette has been actively involved in the development and implementation of national policy for nursing innovations generally and nursing education specifically. Annette has experience in both qualitative and quantitative research.
Executive Members
Professor Ysanne Chapman
Dean, School of Nursing & Midwifery
CQ University Australia Mackay Campus
Boundary Road PO Box 5606
Mackay MC Queensland 4741
Tel: (+61) 7 4940 7409 Fax: (+61) 7 4940 7472
Email: y.chapman@cqu.edu.au
Professor Desley Hegney
Winthrop Professor
School of Population Health
The University of Western Australia (M431)
35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009
Tel: (+61) 8 6488 1416 Fax: (+61) 8 6488 1188
Email: desley.hegney@uwa.edu.au
Professor Desley Hegney is the Winthrop Professor of Nursing in the School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia. She is also Chair of Nursing Research in the Centre for Nursing Research, Innovation and Quality at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth. She is head of discipline in nursing at UWA. Prior to this she was the Director of Research in the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at the National University of Singapore. Desley is an experienced researcher having developed two research centres in Australia and having attracted approximately $10 million in research grant funding. Her research studies utilize a mixed method methodology and focus mainly in the areas of the nursing workforce, nurse-led models of care, and compassion fatigue in nurses and family caregivers. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications and has provided input into health and nursing policy, particularly in the area of rural nursing and rural health. She is an experienced supervisor of research higher degree students.
Professor Di Twigg
Head, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Postgraduate Medicine
Edith CowanUniversity
270 Joondalup Drive
JOONDALUP WA 6027
Tel: (+61) 8 6304 2400 Fax: (+61) 8 6304 2200
Email: d.twigg@ecu.edu.au
Dr Di Twigg is Professor of Nursing and Head of School with the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edith Cowan University, Perth.
Di brings 15 years industry experience in senior leadership roles to the Head of School position; strategically leading the largest undergraduate nursing program in WA and a broad range of postgraduate offerings developed in consultation with industry. Di was President of the Royal College of Nursing Australia from 2005 to 2007 and is an executive member of the Australian and New Zealand Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery.
Di co directs the Clinical Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre at ECU and her key research interests focus on nursing workforce characteristics, positive patient outcomes and quality care. Di has attracted over $0.5 M research funding since joining academic life in 2009, most recently as a co Chief Investigator in ARC Linkage Grant of $300,000 to study the impact of adding nursing support workers (Assistants in Nursing) to patient, nurse and system (ward) level outcomes.
The Council engages the services of a consultant who acts as an advisor to the Council and attends Council meetings:
Consultant
Ms Eithne Irving
Irving Consulting
PO Box R1738
Royal Exchange NSW 1225
Phone: 0419 550 186
Email: eithnemary@gmail.com
Eithne has over 30 years experience in clinical nursing, education and training and health workforce policy. Until 2010, she was the Principal Nurse Advisor/Principal Health Workforce Advisor, Health Workforce Division of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Prior to this role, she was the Executive Officer of the National Health Workforce Secretariat – the operational arm of the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council (AHMAC) Health Workforce Principal Committee, Australian Medical Workforce Advisory Committee and the Australian Health Workforce Advisory Committee.
She has held many other significant roles including the National Liaison Officer for AHMAC’s Community Services and Health Industry Vocational Education and Training Group, was a Senior Policy Analyst to the National Nursing and Nursing Education Taskforce and Manager of the Nurse Policy Branch of the Department of Human Services in Victoria.