Dr Leonie Mosel Williams
Registered Nurse, DipAppSci SCAE, BNEd FlUni, MDE S.Aust, PhD C.Qld
Position: Senior Lecturer, Nursing
Office: T2.28
Tel: +61 7 5459 4549
Fax: +61 7 5459 4767
Email: LWillia2@usc.edu.au Teaching areas
- Health Assessment
- Aged Care
- Applied Pharmacology
Research areas
- Transcultural issues
- Nursing education
- Professional nursing issues
Profile
Dr Leonie Mosel Williams is a registered nurse who has a practice profile spanning a number of specialties in Australia and the US. She has been involved with the regulation of nursing (education) through membership on the Queensland Nursing Council (1997-2003, Chairperson of the Education Committee, Member and currently Chairperson of the Peer Review Panel (Pre-registration)). Dr Mosel Williams was also a member of the Curriculum Working Panel and moderated and accredited work programs for Health Education for the Queensland Studies Authority for 13 years.
Dr Mosel Williams is a Member of Sigma Theta Tau International, the Royal College of Nursing (Australia) and the Joanna Briggs Institute of Evidence-Based Nursing and Midwifery.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Dr Leonie Mosel Williams are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
Research grants
- Scope of Nursing Practice in Queensland, Mosel Williams L, Barnes M, Hingst M. 2007. Queensland Nursing Council.
- New Graduates in Rural Practice, Mosel Williams, L. Centre for Social Science Research, 1999, A qualitative exploratory study of nursing graduates, their colleagues and managers. The findings identified a number of barriers encountered by new graduates who were committed to working in rural areas for their professional careers.
- Interface between nurse-delivered patient education and expressed educational needs of elective orthopaedic patients in a private hospital, Mosel Williams L, Holzberger G. Collaborative Industry Grant, 1999, This exploratory project used data from client interviews, staff surveys and document audits. It identified that there were significant gaps in the client education desired and provided by nurses to patients undergoing orthopedic surgery at one site. The findings were utilised to strengthen care approaches and patient education.
- Sunsafe practices and knowledge of undergraduate students of Health, Mosel Williams L. Faculty Seeding Grant, 1999, This small descriptive project utilised survey and observation studies of university students.
- What needs? Nurses and Aboriginal Patients in Hospitals, Mosel Williams L. Faculty Scholarship, 1997-1999, This founding study using grounded theory culminated in the devlopment of a substantive theory of nurses and their interactions with Aboriginal clients who were hospitalised. Significantly, those aspects that enhanced care and interactions between nurses and clients were identified and the more significant barriers were illuminated.
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