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Health Expectations, 2019

BackgroundA Dementia Health Literacy Project was undertaken in the north coast region of NSW, Aus... more BackgroundA Dementia Health Literacy Project was undertaken in the north coast region of NSW, Australia, after it was identified as having a high prevalence of dementia. A Dementia Support Kit was produced with service user engagement to provide useful information to people with dementia and their families.ObjectiveTo evaluate the Dementia Health Literacy Project using a realist evaluation framework.Setting and participantsThe setting was the region of the north coast of New South Wales. Eight people diagnosed with dementia and their carers, 13 members of social groups of older people in the local area, and 22 local GPs and other health‐care and service providers participated in this study.ResultsTwo context‐mechanism‐outcome configurations were identified: (a) co‐design workshops where the stakeholders’ opinions were equally valued (context) led service users to feel listened to and prompted them to provide feedback (mechanism) to develop a practical resource that they would use (o...

Technology provides one means of meeting the challenge of providing for frequent and meaningful i... more Technology provides one means of meeting the challenge of providing for frequent and meaningful interaction amongst students and staff which underpins students' feelings of being valued, leading to deeper and more meaningful engagement university studies (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991). The challenge lies in providing for interaction in an environment where students and casual academic staff are spending less time on campus as a result of busy and complex lives. This paper relates the experiences of one lecturer/tutor using texting to stay in contact with her students and how this contact has supported and encouraged students to persist. It also discusses some of the implications for using mobile telephony to provide connection and community for first year students in higher education.

The Australian Universities' review, 2019

Australian universities offer diverse approaches to bachelor's (honours) degrees as a means of de... more Australian universities offer diverse approaches to bachelor's (honours) degrees as a means of dealing with a range of contemporary demands. These demands include responding to (i) the Bologna Declaration, (ii) tensions between the conventional role for honours as a PhD pathway and an emerging role for honours as professional development, and (iii) the rigid Commonwealth funding model for honours. Benchmarking of honours across the Australian higher education sector remains problematic, much as it did in the 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council review of Australian honours programs. Little research into honours degrees has been done since that review. Nevertheless, while honours degrees continue as a pathway to higher degree research, other modes of honours and other programs (e.g. master's) vie for equivalent status in the Australian higher education sector, each seeking to adapt to professional development and accreditation education demands. These shifts raise questions about the role of honours in Australian higher education, hence our question, 'W(h)ither the honours degree in Australian universities?'

The aim of this investigation was to test the influence of temporal orientation on student engage... more The aim of this investigation was to test the influence of temporal orientation on student engagement for first year university students at an Australian multicampus university. The study adopted a repeated correlational method to identify the relationships between temporal orientation factors and student engagement variables in the first phase and to confirm these relationships in the second phase. Survey data from two distinct cohorts of commencing students, who completed a university-wide on-line first year experience survey, were examined. To ensure that the relationships and influences that were identified were not merely characteristics of a particular first year cohort, this investigation ran two separate studies, one in 2003 and the other in 2005. In this way, the relationships between the temporal orientation factors and the student engagement variables, and the influence exerted by the temporal orientation factors on the student engagement variables could be tested, retested, and confirmed. Over the decades, several psychological theories have been proposed as influencing students' engagement with their studies and on their approaches to study. This study proposed that the five factors of Zimbardo and Boyd's (1999) Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) would provide a quick and efficient means of assessing psychological concepts that have been considered instrumental in promoting student engagement. Specifically, it was hypothesised that these five factors (Past-Positive, Past-Negative, Present-Hedonistic, Present-Fatalistic, and Future) would act as useful predictors of students' adoption of deep, conceptual approaches to study, academic application, academic orientation, and satisfaction with their first year university experience. This hypothesis was supported by the study's findings.

The Australian Universities' review, 2013

We write in response to Eva Bendix Petersen's commentary on 'Australian early career rese... more We write in response to Eva Bendix Petersen's commentary on 'Australian early career researchers' narratives of academic work, exit options and coping strategies', published in Australian Universities' Review (AUR) 53(2). While the professoriate is, perhaps, unable to directly tackle the malaise that Petersen ascribes to what she sees as an unsustainable staffing condition in the universities, we argue that the professoriate has a duty of care to early career academics, a duty of care that can be articulated through active mentoring. Acknowledging the growing group of academics recruited from the professions and/or specifically for teaching, but now increasingly required to meet scholarly research performance targets, we describe an approach to guided and mentored team-based, multi-authored research. By aligning experienced and inexperienced researchers into small project teams, often with a scholarship of teaching and learning focus, we demonstrate how early career academics can be better inducted into the world of academe, start to be research-productive, and thus be acknowledged, validated and rewarded.

This paper provides data about the way that deaf people use of SMS (short message service), TTYs,... more This paper provides data about the way that deaf people use of SMS (short message service), TTYs, the National Relay Service and Computers to communicate with both deaf and hearing friends, family and work associates. The paper builds on the work of Horstmanshof and Power (2004) and Power and Power (2004) by examining data from a survey of deaf people on their use of these technologies.

The journal of occupational health and safety : Australia and New Zealand, 2002

... Training for the role of workplace health and safety officers in Queensland. Louise Horstmans... more ... Training for the role of workplace health and safety officers in Queensland. Louise Horstmanshof, Bond University Emma Hassall, H30 Solutions Stacy Hassall, H30 SolutionsCherie O&amp;#x27;Connor, H30 Solutions Ian Glendon, Griffith University. Abstract. ...

Advances in Simulation, 2016

In this paper, we report on a series of placements for clinical exercise physiology students in a... more In this paper, we report on a series of placements for clinical exercise physiology students in a simulation-based education environment with older, independent adults. The purpose of these placement opportunities was to help prepare students to work confidently and competently with older adults in primary healthcare settings. The effectiveness of these placements was measured through semi-structured interviews with the students, their supervisors and the volunteer patients, and also by analysing the content of the students' written reflection assignments. A combination of directed content analysis, informed by the research objectives and imposed upon the data, and conventional content analysis, in which codes were developed from themes emerging from the data, was adopted. Coding was based on units of meaning. Overall, the placement aims were met. Students reported increased confidence in communicating with older adults and in using the tools of their trade. This innovative simulation-based education experience helped students gain an understanding of their developing professional identities. However, the data show that some students still failed to recognise the value and importance of communication when working with older adults. The older adults reported that they enjoyed interacting with the students and believed that they had helped the students gain a positive impression of the cognitive and physical abilities of older adults. These older adults had also gained insight into the benefits of exercise physiology in terms of their own wellbeing. This paper demonstrates the benefits of engaging community support in developing healthcare workers and provides guidelines for replication of these innovative simulation-based education experiences. The paper is limited to reporting the social and community engagement benefits for older adults and the learning opportunities for the clinical exercise physiology students. Further research is needed to demonstrate the health gains for older adults who participate in such programmes. Clinical exercise physiology (CEP) is an emerging healthcare profession that has seen significant growth over the past decade [1]. University-trained CEPs are recognised nationally by Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) as accredited exercise physiologists. A CEP graduand is eligible to apply to ESSA for such recognition. CEPs utilise exercise to prevent and manage injury, disability and chronic disease, thus performing a vital role in primary healthcare. Participation in clinical placements and gaining competence while accruing clinical practicum hours is an accreditation requirement for CEPs in Australia. CEP students are required to complete a minimum of 500 h of practicum of which 360 h must be with patients with chronic or complex health conditions [2]. This innovative simulation-based education (SBE) project was designed to address some of the many challenges associated with meeting these clinical placement requirements. Engagement with a community of independently living older adults provided an innovative and authentic SBE environment for these CEP students close to graduation, with unexpected benefits for both groups. An important aim of this project was to engage students with older adults in a simulated clinical environment. Older Australians are major consumers of general practitioner (GP), nursing and other allied health services.

The Australian Journal of Communication, 2005

ABSTRACT Text messaging, or SMS (Short-Message-Service), allows users to send and receive short m... more ABSTRACT Text messaging, or SMS (Short-Message-Service), allows users to send and receive short messages from handheld digital mobile phones or from a computer to a mobile phone, giving almost instant access to others so connected. The privacy and immediacy of SMS and its widespread use have implications for human behaviour and social intercourse. The focus-group research with SMS users reported in this paper provides rich details and nuances of how text messaging affects young adults' patterns of communication and social behaviour. The paper goes beyond documenting commonly held beliefs about young adults' use of SMS- that it is prevalent and used for coordination - to probe issues of privacy, control of access, the dilemma of availability, and gender differences in use. The paper examines the way SMS messages are used not only for the content of the messages per se, but for the sense of being in social (phatic) contact with others.

Geriatric Nursing, Sep 1, 2011

Social engagement and meaningful relationships are critical determinants of the quality of life o... more Social engagement and meaningful relationships are critical determinants of the quality of life of older people. Human beings have an intrinsic need for social connections and an engagement with the social environment. Deficits in the quality of these social relationships lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness in older people. Loneliness can have serious physiological and health implications. It is well established that loneliness is a risk factor for poor physical and mental health, comparable in size to obesity, a sedentary lifestyle and possibly even smoking. The aim of this article is to present an argument for the management of loneliness in aged care residents as an important therapeutic target in gerontological nursing. To date little is known about the effectiveness of intervention strategies designed to alleviate loneliness in aged care residents. Nurses can address this deficit in our understanding by evaluating the impact of loneliness intervention strategies.

Higher education research and development, May 24, 2023

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Dec 12, 2022

This paper summarises data on attitudes and use of SMS from an on-line interactive group session ... more This paper summarises data on attitudes and use of SMS from an on-line interactive group session with 150 students who had read an academic paper and a magazine article on SMS and who were located in five separate classrooms equipped with Blackboard chat. After each question set by the authors, thirty students in each classroom posted individual responses in an instant message format to their own classroom forum viewed on their individual screens. At the end of two to five minutes a student representative in each room summarised the general trends of discussion in that room. These were then posted to all 5 rooms. With these responses in view, the authors constructed further questions designed to explore knowledge, behaviours and attitudes towards SMS in the groups. Analysis of transcripts showed that there was a gender divide in the way that both men and women viewed the way that the other sex constructed messages. In this interactive method, through comparison with other’s views, subjects became aware of how their own behaviours using this technology affected and influenced receivers. In addition, rules for the use of SMS were proposed, discussed and refined. This paper reports on the development of new research techniques in gathering qualitative data from a large number of subjects simultaneously

Leadership in Health Services, Jul 23, 2020

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the response and adaption to cha... more Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the response and adaption to change of allied health professionals. Understanding how individuals respond and adapt to change is essential to assist leaders to manage transformational change effectively. Contemporary health-care environments are characterised by frequent and rapid change, often with unrealistic and challenging time frames. Individuals operate independently, but also as members of teams, professions and organisations. Therefore, having a sound understanding of individual response to change is important for change leaders. In the Australian context, allied health professionals represent a quarter of the health-care workforce. There is a significant gap in understanding how allied health professionals respond and adapt to change. Design/methodology/approach-A scoping review was designed to report on the nature and extent of the literature on the response and adaption to change in the context of allied health professionals. Change leaders in the health-care environment face a number of complex challenges when attempting to facilitate change. While this scoping review did not identify any specific literature on the response and adaption to change of allied health professionals, it did however provide information on change models and factors to take into consideration when implementing a change process. Findings-The results of this scoping review identified findings in two main areas with regard to response and adaptation of allied health to change: a review of change management literature at the organisation level and change management for allied health. Most of the literature described organisational level change management without providing a structural framework for change. At the professional individual level, the literature focused on specific clinical interventions, rather than on the response and adaption to change for allied health. Minimal literature was identified in regard to the response and adaption to change of allied health professionals. In an environment characterised by continuous change and policy reform, a greater understanding of the response and adaption to change by allied health is a priority for research, policy and practice. Research limitations/implications-This scoping review was undertaken to explore the response and adaption to change of allied health. It sought to identify the factors that may explain why certain disciplines within the allied health professional group responded to change differently. Scoping reviews do not set out to comprehensively source all relevant literature but rather to ascertain the nature and extent of the published literature in the field. Therefore, it is possible that a systematic review might uncover additional relevant papers. However, this scoping review provides a clear indication of the nature and extent of the literature in allied health. Practical implications-Social implications-This scoping review will assist change leaders to gain a better understanding of theoretical frameworks of individual, team and organisational change processes and the impacts these have individually and collectively on change processes. Originality/value-To the best of the authors' knowledge, this scoping review is the first of its kind to identify the minimal literature available on the way allied health professionals respond and adapt to change.

Appendix 3-Analyses training level Appendix 4-List of frameworks Appendix 5-Data extraction table... more Appendix 3-Analyses training level Appendix 4-List of frameworks Appendix 5-Data extraction tables and figures Appendix 6-Excluded Articles Sax Institute | Workforce education and training standards frameworks for dementia 3 Plain English Summary Why do a review? The increasing incidence of dementia requires an effective highly skilled dementia care workforce. Dementia education that meets quality and safety standards is essential to ensure high quality care. Dementia Training Australia (DTA) commissioned a review of existing education and training frameworks that may be able to be used, modified or adapted for use in Australia to meet that goal. How was the review done? The peer reviewed and grey literature were searched (2010 to 2020). Key search domains were education, workforce, frameworks, and dementia. Thirteen frameworks were found. After careful analysis, the three frameworks best able to support Australian standards development were selected. Which standards frameworks would be useful in Australia? The top three recommended Standards Frameworks to support an Australian standards framework are:

Asia-Pacific journal of cooperative education, 2016

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is vital for preparing health-work students for practice. WIL acti... more Work-integrated learning (WIL) is vital for preparing health-work students for practice. WIL activities have multiple stakeholders, each with their own set of expectations and requirements, both explicit and implicit. Negotiations to provide these learning experiences for students happen at many levels and those at the coalface are often unaware of the different expectations of the various stakeholders. By developing their ability to consider multiple stakeholder perspectives, health students and their clinical educators are in a strong position to maximize the benefits, limit the disadvantages, and increase the satisfaction of the multiple stakeholders. Social awareness, communication skills and relationship development and maintenance hold the key to building capacity to manage the WIL experiences more skillfully, leading to better outcomes for all. This discussion paper examines an example from the field that drew attention to the need for a better understanding of the needs of all stakeholders.

The search for answers to the first year departure puzzle continues unabated. Despite decades of ... more The search for answers to the first year departure puzzle continues unabated. Despite decades of research and countless interventions the issue remains and grows increasingly complex as the contemporary first year student population becomes increasingly diverse. We propose that individuals who see education as a priority and find their studies personally relevant to their goals, are likely to negotiate substantially more time and energy for their studies, and are also more likely to engage in behaviours that promote academic success. This paper explores the relationship between student satisfaction, the role of orientation to time and approaches to learning in a first year student population that has persisted and re-enrolled in their second year of university study. The findings show associations between a future orientation and a meaningful approach to study; higher levels of satisfaction and a meaningful approach to study; and hedonism and age. Young men appear to have low perceptions of the relevance of higher education; a situation that needs further research.

Health Expectations, Jan 2, 2019

Dementia is a common, complex and disabling disease, and many people have early cognitive decline... more Dementia is a common, complex and disabling disease, and many people have early cognitive decline that is not recognized or diagnosed. 1 There are more than 400 000 Australians living with dementia and this number is expected to increase by 90% over the next 20 years. 2 In the north coast region of NSW, Australia, 20% of residents are aged over 65 years, and almost 1 in 10 people over 65 years have dementia. 3 This region has been classified as a region with a high