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I am a radiographer/academic and Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health. I am based in Taree on the New South Wales Mid-North Coast, where I look after undergrad and postgrad students, organise continuing education for clinical colleagues and research rural health and interprofessional workforce issues. I am interested in interprofessional boundaries in rural health care delivery and their effect on service quality and efficiency. The topic of my PhD, which I completed in 2006, was the role of nurse and GP limited license x-ray operators in remote and rural NSW. It was a qualitative study using in-depth interviews of rural radiographers, rural nurses and rural GPs about their experiences and perceptions surrounding limited x-ray licensing of non-radiographers. I also have extensive cross-disciplinary teaching experience in this field. This has led me to explore issues of rural health professional practice and workforce planning. My current area of interest is the boundaries that exist betwwen health professionals in rural practice.
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Editorial 29 October 2007
Australian Rural Health Education Network's position on interprofessional education and practice in health care
Original Research 22 March 2011
Self-reported competency and continuing education needs of limited licence remote X-ray operators in New South Wales, Australia
Original Research 24 April 2009
The influence of a continuing education program on the image interpretation accuracy of rural radiographers
Original Research 13 September 2005
Effect of an on-site emergency physician in a rural emergency department at night
Commentary 26 May 2020
Adapting to a new reality: COVID-19 coronavirus and online education in the health professions
Commentary 6 November 2020
Teaching psychomotor skills online: exploring the implications of novel coronavirus on health professions education
Short Communication 21 December 2008
The rural allied health workforce study (RAHWS): background, rationale and questionnaire development
Project Report 29 September 2021
Rationale and protocol for the Nursing and Allied Health Graduate Outcomes Tracking (NAHGOT) study: a large-scale longitudinal investigation of graduate practice destinations
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