Professor Margaret McAllister
BA Qld., MEd Aust.Cath., EdD Qld.UT, RN, MHN, FACMHN, MRCNA
Position: Professor in Nursing
Office: T2.25
Tel: +61 7 5456 5032
Fax: +61 7 5459 4767
Email: mmcallis@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Mental Health Nursing
- Nursing
- Critical and Interpretive Research Methods
Research areas
- self injury
- nursing history
- mental health leadership
- transformational pedagogies in nursing
Profile
Professor Margaret McAllister is a registered nurse and credentialed mental health nurse with lengthy experience teaching in the tertiary sector. She is a fellow of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, and a member of the Royal College of Nursing and Suicide Prevention Australia.
She is an active member of mental health nursing and self-injury research networks and is presently engaged in a number of projects. These include: improving the quality and safety in health care for non-suicidal self-injury; history teaching in nursing, quality of life in dementia and solution focused nursing in emergency settings.
Publications
Many of Professor Margaret McAllister's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Current projects
- Developing Cross-Disciplinary Leadership Capacity for Enhancing the Professional Education of Multidisciplinary Mental Health Care Workers [2008-2010]
- A study to determine the research priorities in the Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay District Mental Health Service [2009-10]
- Making history: noteworthy people and achievements in Qld Mental Health Nursing [2009-10]
- A program for school based nurses to empower young people on self harm [2009-10]
- Moving forward by looking backward: An exploration of history teaching in nursing and midwifery curricula across Australia [2008-9]
- Mental health in nursing DVD project [2009]
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