Dr Margaret Barnes
Registered Nurse, EM, BEd ACAE, MA NSW, PhD Griff
Position: Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Discipline Leader, Nursing and Midwifery
Office: T2.29
Tel: +61 7 5459 4686
Fax: +61 7 5459 4767
Email: mbarnes@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Infant Care
- Research in Health Care
- Midwifery in a Social Context
- Midwifery Practicum 1
- Midwifery Practicum 2
Research areas
- Health service evaluation
- Maternal and child health
- Practice development in midwifery and nursing
- Nursing and midwifery education
- Motherhood sociology
- Breastfeeding promotion
- Professional issues for nursing and midwifery
Profile
Dr Margaret Barnes' clinical and research interest is in the area of maternal and child health, midwifery and breastfeeding promotion. Dr Barnes has worked with community child health clinicians on a number of research projects. Most recently she has been involved with a team from the Sunshine Coast Private Hospital under a Queensland Nursing Council Research Grant to explore associations between breastfeeding experiences and assisted conception. This builds on earlier work to improve breastfeeding rates in the Redcliffe and Caboolture Health Service District. Dr Barnes is also interested in professional nursing and midwifery issues and has published in the area of professional roles and responsibilities of child health nurses and school-based youth health nurses.
Dr Barnes is an accredited assessor and educator for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and is a previous past President of the Australian College of Midwives (Qld), a member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia and a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Dr Barnes is co-editor of the text Child, Youth and Family Health. Strengthening Communites, the first Australian and New Zealand text of its kind.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Dr Margaret Barnes are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
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