Staff

Dr Kerryann Cook
Discipline Lead - Counselling and Mental Health Programmes
Lecturer in Counselling

• Health services management
• Organisational performance
• Quality and safety improvement
• Health management workforce
• Health management competency framework
• Innovation and creativity in leadership

• Health Management
• Health Care Systems
• Safety and Quality in Health Care
• HIV/AIDS
• Ageing, Gender and Sexuality

Professor Jane Conway
Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning,
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Discipline Lead, Nursing,
Course Coordinator Master Nursing
School of Health

(02) 6773 3653
jconway4@une.edu.au

• Mental health (including substance use)
• Patient safety issues
• Disasters
• Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Young peoples’ health

• Primary health care
• Sexual health
• Vulnerable populations
• Qualitative research
• Family health
• Women's health

Dr Zaneta Smith
Senior Lecturer in Nursing
Master of Nursing Practice Course Coordinator

• Perioperative Nursing
• Policy, Practice and Standards
• Clinical Governance and Risk Management
• Surgical Safety and Quality
• Organ Donation Procurement and Transplant Surgery
• Nursing Psychosocial Issues and Support Resources

• Cancer Nursing
• Palliative Care
• Chronic Illness Patients and Family
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Qualitative Research
• Mix Methods

Fiona Barrett
Lecturer in Nursing
Clinical Coordinator Academic

(02) 6773 3606
fbarret3@une.edu.au fcpnursing_academic@une.edu.au

Julie Dol
Associate Lecturer in Nursing

(02) 6773 3645
jdol@une.edu.au

• Reform of contemporary child protection systems and the impacts on children, families and practitioners.
• Human Services workforce planning and development
• Rural communities, social care and social welfare service delivery issues including the recruitment and retention of human service practitioners
• Disaster response and recovery for human service agencies and vulnerable communities
• Ethical practice within the changing Human Services environment.
• The interface between social policy frameworks and human services practice.

• Suicide
• Bereavement
• Trauma
• Mental health/illness
• Youth

• Child protection
• Domestic Violence
• Child-centred practice
• Early intervention and family support
• individual and group counselling

• Patient safety
• Sun protective behaviours
• Health services research
• Nurse retention
• Indigenous health
• Indigenous sleep apnoea
• Methamphetamine-related injury
• Alcohol-related injury
• Student nurse preparedness for practice
• Statistics

(02) 6773 5310
agray41@une.edu.au