Profiles And Contributions To This Article
Planning research in rural and remote areas
qualifications: MD
position: Head of Region
Australia
General Practitioner with research and education background
qualifications: PhD
position: Professor of Rural Nursing
Australia
Professor Desley Hegney is a Professor of Nursing at the Research Division, Central Queensland University, Brisbane Campus She was the inaugural President of the Association for Australian Rural Nurses and was the inaugural Editor of the Australian Journal of Rural Health (1992 - 2002). Her research has concentrated on nursing workforce issues in primary health care including the first published research on the role and function of the rural nurse in Australia. She is extensively published in rural nursing workforce issues, compassion fatigue and resilience. She has also undertaken research into the role of the registered and enrolled nurse employed in general practice.
Other research into health service delivery models in rural Australia have included the effectiveness of a community health nurse in the ED to prevent re-presentations of elderly patients; infant feeding support services in rural Queensland; the effectiveness of an outreach palliative care service in rural Queensland; and the use of a triage tool to standardise triage assessment by nurses in the ED.
qualifications: PhD
position: Senior Lecturer
Australia
Nurse researcher, interested in rural health issues especially emotional health and wellbeing, emotional resilience, cancer survivorship
qualifications: MMedStat
position: Lecturer in Statistcs
Australia
Lecturer in Statistics, University of Southern Queensland (USQ) and Member, Centre for Rural and Remote Health, USQ Research interest: Quality monitoring, clinical performance indicators, outcomes from acute hospitals, patient transitions between health care providers, quantitative methods
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