Nursing research snapshot
Dr Anthony Tuckett - Nursing - The University of Queensland
a.tuckett@uq.edu.au
My areas of research expertise
- Nursing ethics
- Truth-telling
- Open disclosure
- Aged care
- Qualitative research methods
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Qualitative
- Symbolic interactionism
- Social constructionism
Areas that I am currently researching
- Data collection, analysis and evaluation of the Open Disclosure Standard: a national standard for open communication in public and private hospitals following an adverse event in health care (Assoc. Prof. Rick Iedema, UNSW);
- "CARE" in residential aged-care (nursing home): Larson's caring assessment instrument - an Australian pilot study
- Residential aged-care: towards an understanding of registered nurses' most important caring behaviours
- Heart failure - learning style and educational needs of patients and carers (Prof Simon Stewart/Ms Mary Boyde)
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Ethical issues in aged-care (Moral distress scale; ethical issues survey)
- Ethical issues: palliative care in HF patients
- Qualitative experience of 'vulnerable' HF patients in the nursing home
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- All listed above
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- Aged-care (ethics) research
Resources/facilities currently available to me that I would like to highlight
- University of Queensland travel awards for international collaborative research (Category 1) return international airfare for a scholar visiting UQ
- University of Queensland travel awards for international collaborative research (Category 2) return international airfare for a UQ scholar visiting abroad
Comment
- See www.nursing.uq.edu.au or http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers for further information about Dr Anthony G Tuckett.
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