Natashia Scully
Lecturer, School of Health
Qualifications
RN, BA (Monash), BN (ACU), PGDipNSc (LaTrobe), MPH (with Merit, USyd)
Contact
| Email: | nscully2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Pat O'Shane Building (C13) 229 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 4582 (or +61 2 6773 4582 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3666 |
Natashia joined the School of Health at UNE in 2010, and holds a concurrent position as a Registered Nurse at the Armidale Rural Referral Hospital. Natashia received her Bachelor of Nursing from the Australian Catholic University (ACU) in Melbourne, where she received the Faculty of Health Sciences Medal. She has a background in emergency nursing, working in the Emergency and Trauma Centre at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. During her time at the Alfred, she completed the Postgraduate Diploma of Nursing Science in Emergency Care and taught at ACU as an undergraduate tutor. Her experience in emergency nursing developed into an interest in injury and chronic illness management in the primary and community care setting, and also public health policy relating to these conditions. Natashia completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Sydney, with a focus on injury prevention and chronic disease management.
Natashia has recently enrolled in a PhD which will examine the current management of chronic heart failure and the future implications for health policy and service provision, given Australia’s ageing population and projected prevalence of this chronic illness.
Natashia is passionate about the nursing profession, critical care nursing and educating excellent nurses for the future.
Affiliations
Member of:
Royal College of Nursing Australia
New South Wales Nurses Association
Areas of Teaching
Fundamental nursing skills
Nursing practice development
Critical care nursing
Research interests
Nursing and Nurse Education:
- Interprofessional education, combining nursing, medical, social work and counselling students.
- The use of simulation in undergraduate nursing education.
- Critical care nursing.
- Developing the role of nurses in patient self management
- Methods to close the theory-practice gap in nursing education and practice.
Public Health:
- Ageing population and its impact on acute care services, with a particular interest in chronic illness.
- Non-communicable disease prevention and control: chronic disease and injury.
Publications
Rebreido, G., Jack, L & Scully, N. & Wilson, D. (2013) Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing: Clinical Skills Workbook 2e Elsevier: Sydney
Scully, N. & Wilson, D. (2013) Fundamentals of Nursing- Clinical Cases App Elsevier: Sydney
Rebreido, G., Jack, L & Scully, N. (2011) Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing: Clinical Skills Workbook Elsevier: Sydney
Scully, N. (2011) The theory-practice gap and skill acquisition- an issue for nursing education. The Collegian: Journal of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia 18(2), 93-98.
Scully, N. (2011) “Critical Thinking and the Nursing Process” in Berman, A. et al eds Kozier and Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing 2nd Australian Ed, Pearson: Australia
Selected presentations:
Scully, N. (2013) “Australia’s Ageing Population: Implications for the prevention and management of chronic heart failure” UNE School of Health HDR Conference, Armidale
Sanderson, H. & Scully, N. (2011) “Implementing critical care simulation within a rural undergraduate nursing curriculum” SimHealth2011 Conference, Sydney
Scully, N. (2010). “Faking it: Clinical Simulation at UNE.” AMCON- Armidale Medical Conference, University of New England
Scully, N. (2008). “The use of restraint and seclusion in the management of aggressive psychiatric patients in the emergency department.” Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
Publication Reviews:
Nay, R & Garratt, S. (2013)Older People: Issues and Innovations in Care 4ed Elsevier: Sydney
Chang, E. & Johnson, A. (2013) Chronic Illness and Disability: Principles for Nursing Care 2ed Elsevier: Sydney
Elliot, D., Aitken, L. & Chaboyer, W. (2012) ACCCN’s Critical Care Nursing 2ed Elsevier: Sydney
Crisp, J. & Taylor, C. (2011) Potter and Perry’s Fundamentals of Nursing 4ed Elsevier: Sydney