Sharon Bourgeois
 | Assistant Professor, Disciplines of Nursing & Midwifery RN, BA, MA, MEd, PhD, FCN, FRCNA Email: Sharon.Bourgeois@canberra.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6201 5131 Fax: +61 (0)2 6201 5128 Room: 10B8 |
Dr Sharon Bourgeois is Assistant Professor at the University of Canberra. Dr Bourgeois has extensive educational experience related to the profession of nursing inclusive of clinical and academic learning environments, curriculum development to implementation. Her clinical experiences derived from the context of nursing in New Zealand have included aged care and surgical, general practice, perioperative nursing care, and voluntary after hours ambulance support. Within the Australian nursing context, Dr Bourgeois’ experiences have focused on perioperative practice, clinical teaching, management and education including clinical education. In the academic arena, she has undertaken various roles such as Facilitator, Lecturer, Clinical Director, Associate Head of School. Dr Bourgeois is also the unit convenor for Clinical Governance and Developing Clinical Judgment in the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing program, University of Canberra. Publications include co-authoring the 2007 best seller The clinical placement: An essential guide for nursing students. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier: Sydney 2007 and the 2009 UK and Europe version, The clinical placement. A nursing survival guide. Elsevier: Edinburgh UK. Her PhD thesis identified ‘An Archive of Caring for Nursing’ using a Foucauldian discourse analysis.
Dr Bourgeois is committed to the professional role of the nurse and is extensively involved in professional activities. A founding member of the Australian chapter, Xi Omicron, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (STTI), Dr Bourgeois has undertaken various leadership roles within the Chapter. She is also a founding member of the Virtual Honor Society and Vice- President of Phi Gamma the Virtual Chapter of STT in 2009-11. In advancing the profession of nursing and health care, Dr Bourgeois has contributed at the international level of the Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) through delegate representation, membership of various international committees and working parties such as governance committee – a competitive international position. She has also contributed to nurse leader, community of practice, service learning and technology task forces. Her work with the Community Advisory Board has been adopted by STTI to progress the organisation as a true global entity into the future.
Professional Leadership Activities
Dr Bourgeois is committed to the professional role of the nurse and is extensively involved inprofessional activities. A founding member of the only Australian chapter of Xi Omicron, Sigma The ta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (STTI), Dr Bourgeois has undertaken various leadershiproles within the Chapter. She is also a founding member of the Virtual Honor Society and Vice-President of Phi Gamma the Virtual Chapter of STTI. In advancing the profession of nursing and healthcare, Dr Bourgeois has contributed at the international level of the Honor Society of Nursing (STTI) through delegate representation, membership of various international committees and working parties such as governance committee – a competitive international position. She has also contributed to nurse leader, community of practice, service learning and technology task forces. Herwork with the Community Advisory Board has been adopted by STTI to progress the organisation as atrue global entity into the future.
Dr Bourgeois continues to be a member of the Perioperative Nurses Association and the Australian Nurse Teachers’ Society. She is a Fellow of Royal College of Nursing and a Fellow of The College of Nursing. Recent activities by Dr Bourgeois includes appointments such as Editorial Board for books(STTI), Unit Development Editor for Crisp, J. & Taylor, C. (2009), Fundamentals of Nursing, Elsevier, Sydney and she contributes to several journal review boards.
Dr Bourgeois is available to supervise in the following areas; caring, discourse analysis, Foucauldian archaeology, education including clinical education, models of teaching and learning, nursingtheory, conceptualising nursing and practice, interdisciplinary research, systematic reviews.
Recent Publications
Publications
Salamonson, Y., Bourgeois, S., Everett, B., Weaver, R., Peters, K., Jackson, D. (2011 under review). Psychometric testing of the abbreviated clinical learning environment inventory (CLEI-19). Journal of Advanced Nursing. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05704.x
Bourgeois, S., Drayton, N. & Brown AM. (2011). An innovative model of supportive clinical teaching and learning for undergraduate nursing students: The cluster model. Nurse Education in Practice 11 114-118.
Jeffrey, K., Bourgeois, S., (2011). The effect of personal digital assistants in supporting the development of clinical reasoning in undergraduate students: A systematic review. JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, JBL000382 2011;9(2):38-68.
Jeffrey, K., Bourgeois, S., Hillege, S. (2010). The effect of personal digital assistants in supporting the development of clinical reasoning in undergraduate students: Protocol. New South Wales Centre for Evidence Based Health Care, A Joanna Briggs Institute Collaborating Centre.
Hoffman, K., Dempsey, J., Levett-Jones, T., Hunter, S., Jeong, S., Bourgeois, S., Norton,C., Noble, D., Kenny, R., Roche, J., Hickey, N., Lapkin, S.,
Jeffrey, K., Morris, A. (2009). The 5 rights of clinical reasoning: An innovative teaching and learning approach. Poster presentation (University of Newcastle, Australian Learning and Teaching Council, University of Western Sydney Project). Presented at Third International Clinical Skills Conference and in Abstract Book (Refereed), Prato ,Tuscany, July 1-4 2009.
Levett-Jones, T., Kenny, R., Van der Riet, P., Hazelton, M., Kable, A., Bourgeois, S., Luxford, Y. (2009). Exploring the information and communication technology competence and confidence of nursing students and their perception of its relevance to clinical practice. Nurse Education Today 19(6) 612-616
Withnall, J.B., Hill, S.B., Bourgeois, S.R. (2009). Midlife women maintaining enriching recovery from alcohol dependence. Alcoholism – Clinical and Experimental Research 32(6) 194A
Withnall, J.B., Hill, S.B., Bourgeois, S.R. (2009). Alcohol, women and midlife. Of Substance 7(2) 14-14
Bourgeois, S. (2008). An archive of caring for nursing: Using Foucauldian archaeology for knowledge development. International Journal of Human Caring 11(4) 25-29
Dickson, C., Walker, J., Bourgeois, S. (2006). Facilitating undergraduate nurses’ clinical practicum: The lived experience of clinical facilitators. Nurse Education Today 26 416-422.
Bourgeois, S.R. & Johnson, A.J. (May 2006). A nurses challenge: Supporting caregivers caring for the person dying. Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand 12-14
Chapters/Books
Hungerford, C., & Bourgeois, S. (Sept 2011). Chapter 5: Supporting WIL: A faculty-wide mapping tool at the University of Canberra. In A. Williams,
T. Levett-Jones, W. Sher, C. Simmons, B. Bowen & N. Gu (Eds.), Facilitating work integrated learning through skill-enabled e-portfolios (pp. 64-80). Canberra: DEEWR.
Levett-Jones, T. & Bourgeois, S. (2011). The clinical placement. An essential guide for nursing students (2nd edition). Elsevier: Sydney
Bourgeois, S. and Vander Riet, P. (2011). Caring (Ch 25) in Bernam, Snyder, Levett-Jones, et.al. Kozier and Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing Vol 2. Pearson Education: Melbourne
Kable, A., & Bourgeois, S. (2010). Nursing care of clients having surgery. Chapter 4 in LeMone and Burke’s Medical Surgical Nursing, 1st Australian Edition. Pearson Australia: Frenchs Forest
Levett-Jones, T. & Bourgeois, S. (2009). The clinical placement. A nursing survival guide. Ballière Tindall Elsevier: Edinburgh (UK adaption)
Bourgeois, S. and Vander Riet, P. (2009) Caring (Ch 25) in Bernam, Snyder, Levett-Jones, et.al. Kozier and Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing Vol 2. Pearson Education: Melbourne
Crisp, J. & Taylor, C. (2008) Fundamentals of Nursing (3rd ed). Elsevier, Sydney, Contributor - Unit 2 developmental editor
Levett-Jones, T. & Bourgeois, S. (2007). The clinical placement. An essential guide for nursing students. Elsevier: Sydney (Bestseller in 2007)