2021 Queensland Nurse Education Symposium: About the event
Innovate, Integrate, Motivate
Building a Community of Practice to Develop Nurses of the Future
Wednesday December 1, University of Queensland St Lucia
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Keynote speakers
Adjunct Professor Veronica Casey AM
Adjunct Professor Casey has held nursing executive leadership positions in Queensland Health since 1998. She worked in nursing director roles at The Prince Charles Hospital, the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Royal Women’s Hospital prior to her appointment as Executive Director, Nursing Services at Princess Alexandra Hospital.
During her time at PAH, she was instrumental in helping the hospital achieve re-designation under the Magnet® credentialing program, and the introduction of the Nurse Sensitive Indicator performance monitoring system.
In 2010, she was appointed as one of three inaugural international commissioners for the American Nurses Credentialing Centre. Veronica was appointed as a Board Member on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia in May 2014 and Chair of the Organisation in October 2020. In that year Adjunct Professor Casey also received the Association of Queensland Nursing & Midwifery Leaders (AQNML) Outstanding Achievement in Nursing and Midwifery Award.
AQNML representatives said Adjunct Professor Casey is an outstanding role model, professional mentor and leader known for her ability to create a culture of care, continuous improvement and compliance to clinical practice standards.
Professor Roianne West
Born and raised Kalkadoon on her grandmother’s ancestral lands in North West Queensland with connections to the Djunke/Djaku-nde peoples in South West Queensland, Professor West continues a family legacy of four generations of Aboriginal nurses and a long line of healers that include her mother, a twin sister and a brother who are Registered Nurses and twin daughters who are studying Nursing and Midwifery.
Professor West has completed a Bachelor of Nursing, a Masters of Mental Health Nursing, and a PhD which developed a model of excellence for increasing Indigenous nurses in Australia 2012.
She was Australia’s first Nursing Director in a tertiary hospital with a dedicated portfolio of Indigenous Health and Australia’s first Professor of Indigenous Health in a joint appointment between a state health service and a University school of nursing and midwifery, Foundation Chair in First Peoples Health, Director of the First Peoples Health Unit and the inaugural Dean of First Peoples Health at Griffith University.
Professor West is an active researcher who leads the Yuwan Gulgan study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety Education and Training at Griffith University which aims to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety education and training through an Indigenous Research lens.
Professor West was recently acknowledged for her outstanding research leadership as the 2020 Lowitja Institute Cranlana Award recipient and she is the only Aboriginal Nurse in the country who is a recipient of both the CATSINaM Sally Goold Award and Fellowship.
Panel presenters
Adjunct Professor Callan Battley EDNS
Callan began in the role as Executive Director, Nursing Services at Children’s Health Queensland in late 2019. Prior to this, he was the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer at Mater Health Services and previously worked in a range of health services, including Uniting Care Queensland. Callan is a highly respected executive nurse leader and his professional achievements reflect a depth of strategic leadership as well as operational expertise. He has a strong track record of leading transformation to deliver sustainable and contemporary models of care. Callan has a professional interest in patient experience, nursing education and research, and is actively involved in children’s health and wellbeing in rural and remote Queensland through volunteer work he is involved in.
Adjunct Professor Donna Bonney
Donna has more than 30 years’ experience as a clinician, educator, manager and leader across both the public and private healthcare sector. As Executive Director of Mater Education across Queensland, Donna leads a diverse team of multidisciplinary education professionals and is responsible for Mater's teaching and learning strategy and operations, as well as the design, development and delivery of communication and cultural development programs, leadership and management training, clinical education and practice development and simulation programs at Mater and beyond. Donna is passionate about interprofessional education and practice, improving workplace culture, communication and teamwork behaviours, supporting the clinical workforce, and the power of simulation in education.
Adjunct Professor Alanna Geary EDNMS
Alanna is Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services for Metro North Hospital and Health Service. Prior to this appointment in 2015, Alanna was Nursing Director of RBWH’s Cancer Care Services, a position she held for just over 10 years, and this then evolved into her being appointed as the Cancer Care Services Directorate Stream Lead for Nursing. Among many achievements, Alanna created the vision, strategy and led the implementation of the Cancer Care Nursing Services Professorial Precinct and the establishment of a dedicated Cancer Care Nursing Research Unit, an initiative awarded a Premier’s Award for Excellence in Leadership in 2014. Now as the EDNMS and with senior nursing leaders here at RBWH and MNHHS, Alanna plans to ensure that nursing services at RBWH and Metro North remain contemporary and cutting edge.
Dr. Sandra Johnston
Sandra is the Director of Clinical Partnerships, in the School of Nursing (SoN), Queensland University of Technology. Sandra’s role as Director of Clinical Partnerships involves collaboration with external health care partners, clinical unit coordinators, clinical facilitators, the Work Integrated Learning Support Team and students, to ensure quality clinical experiences for undergraduate nursing students. Sandra is an experienced academic who has extensive teaching and learning experience and demonstrated leadership in curriculum design and implementation for the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing course in the SoN. Sandra’s clinical and research interests include simulated learning and transfer to practice, using different methods of simulation for resuscitation training, clinical placement issues and interprofessional education.
Professor Victoria Terry
Victoria is the Deputy Head of School and the Associate Head Clinical Education. Her teaching profile spans more than two decades in the clinical and academic arenas and reflects her passion for clinical education. Victoria is affiliated with the National Network of Clinical Coordinators, the National Rural Health Alliance and has been a proud member of the Queensland Nurses Union for over 20 years. Her research has focused primarily on the investigation of nursing workforce issues. More than eighty percent of her publications are in top quartile journals and are well cited in the literature (Scholar H-index 11: 1165 total citations). With total grant income in excess of $250K, Victoria has a solid record of securing internal and external research funding, most recently exploring the resilience of nurses working in the South West Hospital and Health Services throughout rural Queensland.