Associate Professor Adam Burston
Associate Professor in Nursing - Faculty of Medicine and Health; School of Health
Email: abursto2@une.edu.au
Biography
Dr Adam Burston is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of New England and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Nursing Research and Practice Development Centre (Australian Catholic University and The Prince Charles Hospital).
Completing a Bachelor of Nursing in 1997 Adam then gained extensive experience around metropolitan Brisbane in surgical nursing (cardiothoracic, vascular, urology, hepatobiliary, colorectal, plastics) as well as ad-hoc episodes in medical areas and aged care. He began working with graduate nurses in 2005, and academic teaching in 2009. Teaching interests include healthcare ethics, organisational culture, health research, and surgical nursing care.
His research focus centres upon nursing ethics, the nursing workforce, and nursing education. Adam completed his PhD at The University of Queensland in 2018, examining moral distress in the Australian aged care workforce. He has since extended this work into higher education, investigating moral distress and moral injury among nurse academics, and the moral character and academic integrity of nursing students.
His nursing workforce research includes internationally qualified nurses' specialty skills, the work of nurse-surgeons, and nursing academics. He has also led several projects addressing pressure injury (PI) care, the prevalence of PI, the psychometric properties of pressure injury risk assessment tools, and patient and carer experiences. He has also contributed to studies of PI risk assessment and incidence in palliative care and PI in cardiac surgery patients.
Adam is an approved supervisor for PhD, MPhil, and Honours students.
