Yoni Luxford
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Health
Qualifications
PhD, RN, RM, BSW, GradDipPHC, GradCertTertTeach
Contact
| Email: | yoni.luxford@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Pat O'Shane Buidling (C13) |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2547 (or +61 2 6773 2547 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3666 |
Yoni is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing in the School of Health. She came to UNE from South Australia in 2007. Yoni brings a strong social justice in health care agenda to her teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as supervising higher degree students. She is registered as a nurse, and a midwife and has qualifications in social work, primary health care and education. She has practice expereince in managing projects, and developing partnerships between health and eduction sectors to meet the changing needs of health service provision in Australia. Recently these have been in the area of develping new practice roles in health care, such as nurse practitioner. She has served as consultant to maternity services as they shift focus to midwifery led models of care. Yoni has a particular interest in the intersections between health care policy and practice, and culture.
Research interests
Current Research Supervision
- PhD thesis: Culture and communication in child health practice. J. Grant
- PhD thesis: Palliative Care (working focus) A Davis
- PhD thesis: Resilience and Youth homelessness (working focus) E Arriaga
Research Supervision Completed
- PhD thesis: Understanding second chance: reconstructing identity following coronary bypass surgery. S. Mikic
- PhD thesis: Mapping the scope of practice of advanced practice palliative care nurses towards developing nurse practitioner roles. D Stephenson
- Exploring the construction of fear in pregnancy and its impact on birth decisions. PhD thesis: B Maier 2007
- Sa´mi Nurses and how their culture shapes their nursing practice. Hons thesis: N Sivertsen: 2006
- Evaluating the use of portfolios as an assessment strategy for graduate students in clinical practice: a case study from perioperative nursing. Master Nursing thesis: D Hutt 2005
- Young men's decision making experience of harm minimisation in relation to using alcohol and other drugs. Master Nursing thesis: D Holloway 2004
- How do non-indigenous nurses provide culturally appropriate sexual health care to young Indigenous women? Master Nursing thesis: J Kelly 2004
- Identifying the care expression patterns of English speaking Saudi patients having haemodialysis for chronic renal disease, utilising Leininger's Sunrise Model. Master Nursing thesis: H Al Halwani 2002
- Bullying in the nursing workplace. MN coursework 18 unit thesis, student located in New Zealand. Master Nursing thesis: J Beck 2002
- All in the family: an oral history of 3 generations of nurses in the one family. Master Nursing thesis: L Fitzgerald 2001
- An analysis of personal mastery among remote area community health nurses in South Australia. Honors thesis J Grant 2001
- An oral history of Japanese nursing: the voices of five senior nurses who have experienced nursing since the 1950s. Master Nursing thesis: M Kako 2001
- Parents’ perceptions of having a child with disabilities in Taiwan. Master Nursing thesis: Li-Ching Chen 2000
- Older women's experience of planning for old age. Master of Women’s Studies: I Allen 1997
Current research projects
Student centred teaching and learning in flexible delivery
ICT skills, confidence, and resources among undergraduate nursing students
Current Grants
Luxford Y, Brown J, Tynan B 2007 ‘Academic Renewal: making 2 degrees into one flexible course’ University of New England, Faculty of The Professions, Competitive Internal Grant $44000
Publications
Kelly J, Luxford Y 2007 ‘Yaitya tirka madlanna warratinna; exploring what sexual health nurses need to know and do in order to meet the sexual health needs of young Aboriginal women in Adelaide’ Collegian vol 14, no 3, pp15-20
Grant J, Luxford Y, Derbyshire P 2005 ‘Culture, communication and child health, Contemporary Nurse, vol 20 no 2, pp 134-142
Morcom J, Dunn S & Luxford Y 2005 ‘Establishing an Australian Nurse Practitioner-Led Colorectal Cancer Screening Clinic’, Gastroenterology Nursing, vol 28 no 1, pp 33-42
Luxford Y 2003 ‘Troublesome breasts: older women living in the liminal state of being ‘at risk’ of breast cancer’ Health Sociology Review, vol 12: 146-154
Luxford Y 2001 ‘The Clinical is Political: implementing masters level education for nurse practitioners’. Whence the Nurse Practitioner Conference proceedings, RCNA. Adelaide
Luxford Y 1999 Book Review– ‘Carolyn Latteier, Breasts: the Women’s Perspective on an American Obsession’ (Haworth Press) New York, (1998) Australian Feminist Studies. Summer
Luxford Y 1999 Breasts talk back: a discursive analysis of breast health in older women’s narratives. Unpublished PhD Flinders University Adelaide Australia
Luxford Y 1998 ‘Back to the Future: making better use of the topic guide as a support to student reading/learning’. In Janice Orrell (ed) Improving University Teaching and Learning Vol 3. FUAA Adelaide
Luxford,Y 1994 The health of older women: unveiling the practices, Chapter 6 in Jan Thompson (ed) Women's health :a continuing education program for nurses. Australian Nurses Federation Melbourne:111-129
Luxford, Y 1992 ‘The problem with the 'Old' word’. Stating women's Health.December:19-20
Anderson, J; Luxford Y & Neveraskus, D 1988 ‘Women growing older - a case study in community work’. Community Initiatives. Winter
Anderson J & Luxford Y 1987 Women growing older: a manual for working with women around the age of 60 and over. Southern Women's Community Health Centre. Adelaide.
Referred Abstracts
2006 ‘Learning to dance the tango: Designing education partnerships to support implementation of innovative practice roles in nursing and midwifery’ July 2006 RCNA National Conference with Dunn S
2002 ‘Dancing the Tango: Rethinking the relationship between university and health care sectors in the education of nurse practitioners in the South Australian context’. Making the Future: Practice, Policy and Partnerships 2rd ICN International Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Practice Nurse Conference. Adelaide
2002 ‘Developing a model of clinical education for the Master of Nurse Practitioner degree’ Discovering Resources—Making Global Connections, International Networking Inaugural ICN International Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Practice Nurse Network Conference. Dublin
2001 ‘Ensuing effects: working the hyphen between the research 'field' and the researchers’. Contesting Conversations in practice, Education, Research and Policy. 4th Biennial International Nursing and Midwifery Conference Adelaide
2001 ‘Unsettling the mechanistic practice of breast health for older women' Women’s Health, Politics, Action, Renewal: 4th Australian Women’s Health Conference. Adelaide
2000 ‘Brewing Pleasure as a discursive antidote to the mechanistic practices of breast health’ Narratives for a new millenium -4th Biennial International Conference of the discursive construction of knowledge group. Adelaide
1999 ‘Breast health, screening practices and monsters in the cultural landscape of breast cancer’. 10th Annual Critical and Feminist Theory in Nursing Conference Williamsberg Virginia
1998 ‘Everywhere and Nowhere: scanning the territory of breast health for midlife and older women’. 9th Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference. Adelaide
1998‘Dangerous territory: (Re) Considering the discourses of ‘breast health’ for midlife and older women’. Postmodernism in Practice – 3rd Biennial International Conference of the discursive construction of knowledge group. Adelaide
1998 ‘Reconceptualising breasts: a postcard history of breasts in Western Culture’. 6th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women. Adelaide
1995 ‘Past the use by date: what ‘is’ breast health for midlife and older women’. 3rd National Women’s Health Conference. ANU Canberra
1995 ‘Talking breasts: breast health for midlife and older women’. Caring for the Body Conference. Flinders University Adelaide
1993 ‘Teaching women's health in nursing curriculum: a contradiction in terms’ Teaching women's health in nursing and medical curriculums. 1st International Conference. London paper presentations with Power C, and Thompson J.
1993 ‘Using women's experience as a powerful teaching strategy in undergraduate nursing programs’ Teaching women's health in nursing and medical curriculums. 1st International Conference. London 2 paper presentations
1992 ‘Women and ageing’. SA Women's Health Conference, Adelaide Workshop presentation
1987 ‘Women Growing Older Project: progress report’. National Community Health Conference, Adelaide
1985 ‘Homebirth Midwifery Practice in SA’– International Confederation of Midwives Sydney
Invited papers
2002 Invited speaker, International Panel, Girl Child Issues. Paper entitled ‘Girl Child Issues: Nursing Education and issues of cultural safety’. 3rd International Nurse Practitioner Conference. Adelaide
2002 Key Note Speaker. ‘Hand in Glove: Nurse Practitioner role development and education’. Australian Gastroenterology Nurses Association - Annual National Conference. Adelaide
2001 Invited speaker, The Clinical is Political: implementing masters level education for nurse practitioners. Everything you wanted to know about Nurse Practitioners in SA’. DHS Seminar Adelaide
1999 Invited seminar presentation ‘Breasts talk back: a discursive analysis of breast health in older women’s narratives’, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London UK
1995 Seminar presentation, ‘Body talk in narratives: the possibilities of reading the body in interview transcripts’. Methodology Matters. Australian Institute of Nursing Research Adelaide
1994 Invited speaker ‘Role analysis of Women's Health Nurse Practitioner’. Role of the Women's Health Nurse in SA Seminar Adelaide
1990 Workshop presentation ‘Older women and sexuality’,. Second Australian Older Women's Festival Adelaide
1988 Workshop presentation ‘Older women and their adult daughters’. First Australian Older Women's Festival Adelaide
1985 Seminar presentation ‘Politics of Independent Midwifery Practice’. College of Midwives Conference, Mt Gambier
Submissions and reports
Luxford Y 2006 ‘An evaluation of student and clinician experience of Bachelor of Midwifery practice placement 2004’ unpublished report for the School of Nursing and Midwifery
Submission to SA DHS 2002 ‘Generational Health Review: Better Services: Health Care Models’, submission, Sandra Dunn, & Yoni Luxford FUSA, Meg Lewis RAH, Karen Glaetzer, RGH, Sara Fleming WCH, Joylene Morcom RGH, Kaye Sutton, FMC, Libby Birchmore QEH, Grace Davey and Jacqueline Jones Uni SA. Submission promotes the role and contribution of Nurse Practitioners to the changing models of health care delivery
Flinders University School of Nursing and Midwifery 2002 written submission to SA DHS Generational Health Review: ‘Better workforce: Workforce, Research and Training’
Flinders University School of Nursing and Midwifery 2001 written submission to the DEST -National Inquiry into Nursing Education, contributing member of report team. Specifically on the issues as they relate to graduate education for the Nursing and Midwifery Workforce