Nursing research snapshot
Dr Elizabeth Manias - Nursing - The University of Melbourne
emanias@unimelb.edu.au
My areas of research expertise
- Medication management
- Pain assessment and management
- Consumer participation in health care
- Medication adherence
- Risk assessment
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Ethnography
- Interventional designs
- Development of risk assessment tools
Areas that I am currently researching
- Medication management for people of non-English speaking backgrounds
- Communication about medications in health care settings
- Open disclosure processes in hospitals
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Sensitivity and specificity analysis for risk management
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- Medication management
- Pain assessment and management
- Medication errors in hospital
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- Human factors leading to medication errors and medication adverse events in hospital
Resources/facilities currently available to me that I would like to highlight
- Visiting scholars will have access to office facilities (including a desk, computer, library databases, email, SPSS etc.) and the ability to access university resources that are currently available to academic staff
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