Associate Professor Margaret McAllister
BA Qld., MEd Aust.Cath., EdD Qld.UT, RN, MHN, FACMHN, MRCNA
Position: Associate 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
Research
Older person
Research areas
- Self injury
- Transformational learning
- Clinical reasoning
- Solution focused nursing
Profile
Associate 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.
Recent publications
Books
- McAllister M (ed). 2007. Solution focused nursing: Rethinking practice, London, Macmillan-Palgrave.
Book chapters
- McAllister M. 2008. Working with patients who self-harm. In: (Facione N, Facione P. eds), Critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the health sciences: An international multidisciplinary teaching anthology. California Academic Press, Milbrae, CA. 267 278.
- McAllister M. 2008. Positive skills, positive strategies: Solution focused nursing. In: (De Chesnay M. ed.), Caring for the vulnerable, Jones & Bartlet, New York, 141 151.
- McAllister M, Handley C. 2008. Promoting mental health’. In: (Barnes M, Rowe J eds), Child, youth and family nursing. Elsevier, Sydney, 166 188.
Journal articles
- McAllister M. 2007. Using cultural theory to transform nursing education and practice, International Journal of the Humanities, 4:2, 71–80.
- McAllister M, Tower M, Walker R. 2007. Gentle interruptions: Transformative approaches to clinical teaching. Journal of Nursing Education, 46:7, 304–313.
- McAllister M, Matarasso B. 2007. Mental health community liaison in aged care: A service of value to all. International Journal of Older People. 2:2, 148–154.
- McAllister M, Moyle W. 2007. Stakeholders’ views in relation to curriculum development approaches for Australian clinical educators. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24:2, 16–20.
- McAllister M, Osborne S. 2006. Teaching and learning practice development for change, Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 37:4, 154–59.
- McAllister M, Moyle W, Iselin G. 2006. Solution focused nursing: An evaluation of current practice, Nurse Education Today, 26:5, 439–447.
- McAllister M, Moyle W. 2006. An online learning community for clinical educators, Journal of Nursing Education in Practice, 6:2, 106–111.
- McAllister M. 2005. Transformative teaching in nursing education: Leading by example, Collegian, 12:2, 11–16.
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