Laurie Grealish

Laurie Grealish

Associate Professor, Disciplines of Nursing & Midwifery

PhD, MNurs, GradDipNursStud, CertOncologicalNurs, DipNurs

Email: Laurie.Grealish@canberra.edu.au

Phone: + 61 (0)2 6201 2229

Fax: + 61 (0)2 6201 5128

Room: 10B34

 

Laurie is Associate Professor in Nursing and Post Graduate Course Coordinator for Nursing & Midwifery. She is an experienced academic, with over 80 publications since 1990 in the areas of work integrated learning, cancer nursing and palliative care. She has worked in the health, government, and university sectors. Her doctoral research focused on the production of nursing competence in clinical contexts.

Laurie is recognised as a leader in the area of learning in the workplace. She has been invited to speak to a range of professional groups on contemporary issues in workplace learning, locally, nationally, and internationally. Her leadership in nursing education has been recognised through fellowship of the University’s Learning and Teaching Centre, a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2008), and an Acknowledgement for Educational Excellence from the ACT Council of Nursing and Midwifery (2005). Laurie is an active Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia and has been appointed to national committees in the areas of policy, aged care and nursing education. Laurie’s earlier contributions to cancer nursing, most importantly leading the establishment of the Cancer Nurse’s Society of Australia (CNSA), has been acknowledged through a CNSA Lifetime Member Award (2007).

Laurie's research investigates workplace learning using communities of practice, practice development and distributive leadership frameworks. Laurie is leading the advancement of learning and research in aged care in partnership with Calvary Retirement Community Canberra, Kangara Waters IRT, Morshead Home and Ginninderra Gardens (Anglicare).

As Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Health from 2008-2010, Laurie led the Learning & Teaching agenda through a period of significant growth across the faculty portfolio, including the introduction of the Bachelor of Public Health, the Master of Occupational Therapy, and the Graduate Certificate in Remote Industrial Health. Laurie led the Work Integrated Learning Project, a DEEWR-funded project that delivered a strategic and best practice approach to incorporating work integrated learning across the seven faculties in the University of Canberra in 2010.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy Conferred in 2009 by the University of Canberra. Thesis title: Crafting competence: the governance of multiplicity in nursing
  • Master of Nursing Conferred in 1993 by the University of Canberra.
  • Graduate Diploma in Nursing Studies (Education) Conferred in 1988 by the Armidale College of Advanced Education.
  • Certificate in Oncological Nursing Conferred in 1987 by the New South Wales College of Nursing.
  • Diploma of Nursing Conferred in 1980 by the University of Alberta Hospital School of Nursing

Teaching

Teaching Interests

  • Supportive care in cancer and other chronic diseases;
  • Ageing;
  • Governance of human behaviour;
  • Critical thinking;
  • Advanced Nursing theory and practie; and
  • Workplace learning.

 Educational Leadership

  • Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Health 2008-2010;
  • Leader of the University-wide Work Integrated Learning Project ($830k) 2009-10;
  • Chair Faculty of Health Learning and Teaching Committee 2007-2010.

Reseach Interests

  • Ageing;
  • Workplace learning for staff and students;
  • Chronic illness and supportive care;
  • Primary Health; and
  • Practice development.

Research

Research Grants

Researchers: Associate Professor Laurie Grealish, Associate Professor Daniel Nicholls, Associate Professor Monica Kennedy, Dr Gylo Hercelinskyj, Dr Carmel McQuellin, Holly Northam, Lacey Smale, Professor Amanda Henderson (Griffith University)
Title: Investigation into the impact of team generated learning strategies on organisational learning culture in aged care
Funding: $19,150 UC DVCR External Collaboration Grant Scheme (2011)

Researchers: Professor Anita Mak, Professor Michelle Barker, Associate Professor Laurie Grealish, Professor Anne Daly,  Dr James Neill, Professor Nick Buys, Associate Professor Saras Henderson, Dr Peter Woods.
Title: Internationalisation at Home: Enhancing Intercultural Capabilities of Business and Health Teachers, Students and Curricula
Funding: $220K Australian Learning and Teaching Council (2011): Ethics approval UC stage one, pending for stage two.

Researchers: Associate Professor Laurie Grealish,  Dr Nikki Lucas, Dr Carmel McQuellin, Dr James Neill, Rachel Bacon, Joanne Latimer, Dr Franziska Trede
Title:       Learning and participation in student nurse led wards in residential aged care
Funding: $75K Department of Health and Ageing (2010). Ethics approval pending.

Researchers: Associate Professor Laurie Grealish, Kristen Ranse, Kasia Bail
Title:      Staff learning in the DEU in residential aged care (2007)

Researchers: Associate Professor Laurie Grealish
Title:         Governance of nursing assessment
Funding: $ 10.1K ACT Nursing and Midwifery Board (2002). Ethics approval completed.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Grealish L, Stunder S (2011) Cooperative and work integrated education in nursing. In RK COll and K Zegwaard (Eds) International Handbook for Cooperative and Work Integrated Education 2e. pp 165-172.
  • Grealish L, Smale L (2011) Theory before practice: implicit assumptions about clinical nursing education in Australia as revealed through a shared critical reflection. Contemporary Nurse 39(1): 60-74.
  • Pearce-Brown C, Grealish L, McRae I, Douglas K,Yenn L, Wells R, Wareham S (2011) A local study of costs for private alliedhealth in Australian Primary Health Care: variability and policy implications. The Australian Journal of Primary Health. 17(2): 131-134.
  • Dugdale A, Grealish L. (2010). New modes of governance and the standardization of nursing competencies. In V Higgins & W Larner (Ed) Calculating the Social: Standards and the reconfiguring of governing. Palgrave McMillan, UK.
  • Grealish L, Bail K, Ranse K. (2010) Investing in the future: Residential aged care staff experience of working with nurses in a ‘community of practice. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 19 (15-16): 2291-2299.
  • Moss C, Grealish L, Lake S (2010) Valuing the gap: A dialectic between theory and practice in graduate nursing education from a constructivist educational approach. Nurse Education Today 30(4): 327-332.
  • Grealish L, Ranse K. (2009) An exploratory study of first year nursing students’ learning in the clinical workplace. Contemporary Nurse 33(1): 80-92.
  • Bail K, Gardner A, Cooke R, Grealish L. (2009) Writing ourselves into a web of obedience: a nursing policy analysis. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 46(11): 1457-1466.
  • Boogaerts M, Grealish L, Ranse K (2008) Policy and practice: Exploring tensions to develop practice. Practice Development in Healthcare. 7(1): 49-57.
  • Ranse K, Grealish L (2007) Nursing students' perceptions of learning in the clinical setting of the Dedicated Education Unit. Journal of Advanced Nursing 58(2): 171-179.
  • Owen J, Grealish L. (2006) Clinical education delivery A collaborative, shared governance model provides a framework for planning, implementation and evaluation. Collegian 13(2): 15-21.
  • Grealish L, Trevitt C. (2005) Developing a professional identity: Student nurses in the workplace. Contemporary Nurse 19(1-2): 137-150.
  • Grealish L, Kaye L (2004) Change and challenge: The implementation of a new model of clinical learning for undergraduate nursing students in a cancer setting. Australian Journal of Cancer Nursing 5(2):3-4, 6-7, 9-11.
  • Trevitt C, Grealish L, Reaby L (2001) Students in Transit: using a self-directed preceptorship package to smooth the journey. Journal of Nursing Education. 40(5): 225-228
  • Gibson J, Grealish L (2001) Relating palliative care principles to the promotion of undisturbed sleep in a hospice setting. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 7(3): 140-145.
  • Proctor M, Grealish L, Coates M, Sears P (2000) Nurses’ knowledge of palliative care in the Australian Capital Territory. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 6 (9): 421-428.
  • Grealish L (2000) Mini-mental State Questionnaire: problems with its use in palliative care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 6(6): 298-302
  • Grealish L (2000) The skills of coach are an essential element to foster clinical learning. Journal of Nursing Education 39(5): 231-233.
  • Grealish L, Lomasney A, Whiteman B (2000) Foot Massage: an effective nursingintervention for the management of pain and nausea in the patient hospitalised with cancer.  Cancer Nursing. 23(3): 237-243.
  • Grealish L, Thoms M (1999) Off campus education activities at the University of Canberra. PEPE Research Monograph 3: 30-41.
  • Grealish L (1998) Credentialling specialty nursing practice - a dissenting view. Australian Journal of Nursing. 5(7): 18-19.
  • Grealish L, Carroll G (1997) Beyond preceptorship and supervision: a third clinical teaching model emerges for Australian nursing education. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing. 15 (2): 3-11.
  • Grealish L (1997) Beyond Hippocrates: ethics in palliative care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 3(3): 151-155.

Recent Invited Conferences and Presentations

“I am learning to be a ........” Pedagogies to shape identity in work-integrated learning. Invited plenary paper. Informa Higher Education Work Based Learning Forum, 22-23 November 2011, Melbourne.

Work integrated learning at UC. Invited plenary paper, with Associate Professor Monica Kennedy (Business & Government). OctoberVET, 26 October 2011, Canberra Institute of Technology.

Building a learning culture in healthcare. Invited plenary speaker, National Leadership and Learning Conference, 25-26 August 2011, Brisbane.

Realising research into attraction and retention initiatives. Invited speaker, Australian College of Health Service Executives Seminar, 7 July 2011, Canberra.

Revealing, sharing and expanding practical knowledge of practice-based education, 2011 Invited keynote speaker. Practice-based Education Summit, Education for Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University and Australian Learning and Teaching Council, Bathust NSW, 13-14 April 2011.

Growing cultures of learning and development, Master Class, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington New Zealand, 2006 and 2008. One manuscript published.

Clinical governance in palliative care. Invited speaker, Greater Southern Area Health Service, Young NSW, 2008.

Practice development – bringing together evidence and change. Invited speaker, Flinders University of South Australia Research Workshop, Adelaide SA, 2008.