Brief Biography 
   
Sue Lenthall is an educationalist with extensive remote area nursing experience. She has worked as a remote area nurse in remote communities in Queensland and Central Australia for over 20 years.  She was one of the first teachers with the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education Program in Queensland and has retained a strong interest in teaching about cross-cultural practice and cultural safety. Sue was the Executive Officer for the Council of Remote Areas Nurses of Australia before working as the education coordinator with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Townsville. Sue has contributed to the development of numerous curriculum documents relating to Indigenous and Remote Health.  She was the foundation course coordinator of the Remote Health Practice program at the Centre for Remote Health and is responsible for oversighting the development of the program designed to prepare health professionals to practice in remote areas of Australia. She is currently managing an ARC research project ‘Back from the Edge’ reducing occupational stress among nurses in very remote Australia and working towards her PhD.

Education

Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Bachelor of Adult Teaching
Registered Midwife
Registered Nurse

Awards

2009 CRANAplus awardfor contribution to Remote Health through  Research and Education
2007 Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for the design and implementation of a multidisciplinary curriculum to meet the learning needs of Remote Health Professionals.

Teaching Areas

• Public Health 
• Learning and Teaching in Clinical Practice
• Primary Health Care
• Cross cultural education

Research Interests

Stress among RAN’s; Culture Shock.

Industry / community / professional activities / interests and affiliations

• CRANAplus Fellow
• Associate editor International Electronic Journal of Rural Health

Publications (selected)

Refereed papers

• Opie, T., Lenthall, S., Wakerman, J., Dollard, M., MacLeod, M., Knight, S., Rickard, G., & Dunn, S. 2011. "Occupational stress in the Australian nursing workforce: a comparison between hospital-based nurses and nurses working in very remote communities". Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing. 28(4): 36-43.
• Muecke, A., Lenthall, S., and Lindeman, M.A. 2011. "Culture Shock and Health Care Workers in Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia: What Do We Know and How Can We Measure It?" Rural and Remote Health. 11 (1607 online), 1-13.
• Lenthall, S., Wakerman, J., Opie, T., Dollard, M., Dunn, S., Knight, S., and MacLeod, M. 2011. "The Nursing Workforce in Very Remote Australia, Characteristics and Key Issues." Aust. J. Rural Health 19: 32-37.
• Opie, T., Dollard, M., Lenthall, S., Wakerman, J., Dunn, S., Knight, S., and MacLeod, M. 2010. "Levels of Occupational Stress in the Remote Area Nursing Workforce" Aust. J. Rural Health 18: 235-241.
• Opie, T., Lenthall, S., Dollard, M., Wakerman, J., MacLeod, M., and Knight, S. 2010. "Trends in Workplace Violence in the Remote Area Nursing Workforce." Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 27(4): 18-23.
• Lenthall S., Wakerman J., Opie T., Dollard M., Dunn S., Knight S., et al. 2009. "What stresses remote area nurses? Current knowledge and future action." Aust. J. Rural Health 17: 208-213. 
• Lenthall S., Wakerman J., and Knight S. 2009. "The frontline and the ivory tower: A case study of service and professional-driven curriculum." Aust. J. Rural Health 17: 129-133.
• Cook S., Ellis I., Knight S., Lenthall S. 2007. "Headlice: a percurer to Group A Streptococcal infection in remote indigenous children" Primary Intention 15(4).

• Opie, T., Lenthall, S., and Dollard, M.F. 2011. "Occupational stress in remote area nursing profession." In J. Langan-Fox and C. Cooper (eds), Handbook of stress in the Occupations. UK: Edwards Elgar Publishing Ltd.
• Kruske, S., Lenthall, S., Kildea, S., Knight, S., Hegney, D., and MacKay, B. 2008. Chapter 11, "Rural and Remote Area Nursing." In Brown and Edwards 2nd Ed, Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing.
• Wakerman, J., and Lenthall, S. 2002. "Remote Health" In D. Wilkinson and I. Blue (eds), The New Rural Health. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.