Research Fellow / PHCRED
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 Brief Biography
Karen is part of the PHCRED NT programme. After graduating as a nurse and working in various clinical positions in Australia and internationally, Karen has been for the last twenty years working in community health in the urban and rural settings. This includes forensic nursing at Berrimah, as a midwifery educator and as a child and maternal health nurse. Karen has been working with PHCRED since 2003 and is responsible for the PHCRED Enewsletter. She works collaboratively with a number of health services agencies in primary health care activities.
Education
Registered Nurse, Woden Valley Hospital, ACT, 1978
Registered Midwife, Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, NSW, 1979
Bachelor of Arts, Australian National University, ACT, 1985
Diploma of Applied Science Community Health, Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1986
Masters of Primary Health Care, Flinders University, SA, 1995
Teaching Areas
Evidence Based Practice Interest group: Community Health
Research Interests
Evidence Based Practice, social marketing and health promotion, knowledge transfer, community development, quality and safety in primary health care and project evaluation.
Industry/community/prof acti/interests and affiliations
She is a member of the Northern Territory Child and Family Nurses Association, the Northern Territory Council on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the Australian Council for Health Physical Education and Recreation Association and Course Advisory Group Graduate Diploma Child and Family Health (Charles Darwin University).
Karen is also active in a number of school based community groups including sports and music.
Publications
- Helped with chapters of the Women’s Business Manual 4th Edition
Conferences
- May 2008 Organisation group for the 10th International Paediatric and Child Health Nurses Darwin (450 delegates)
- June 2008 Presentation GP & PHC Research Conference Hobart: Evaluation of a solvent misuse prevention programme
- September 2008 Poster presentation at the Health Professionals Teaching and Learning Conference, Darwin
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