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Professor Margaret McAllister
BA Qld., MEd Aust.Cath., EdD Qld.UT, RN, MHN, FACMHN, MRCNA
Position: Professor of 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
- inter-professional learning
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 the Royal College of Nursing Australia.
In 2010, she was awarded Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for outstanding contributions to student learning for the creation and development of Solution Focused Nursing, an innovative and internationally recognised model for student learning that develops high-level caring skills.
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; solution-focused nursing in emergency settings; and working with Young and Well national CRC on innovations in therapeutic interventions in mental health.
She is the co-leader (with Dr Christian Jones) of a cross-sector and cross-disciplinary Community of Practice, called Actlearn, that explores, develops and disseminates innovative teaching practices that aim to be transformative for students and health services.
Publications
Many of Professor Margaret McAllister's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Current projects
- Hello Sunday Morning: A content analysis of an online community designed to reduce alcohol misuse and improve health and wellbeing (2012)
- Computer Games, Young People and Wellbeing (2012–2015)
- Professional Development in Nursing: Current Awareness, Practice and Future Directions [2010–2011]
- Mental Health Interprofessional Education (MHIPE): Implementation, extension and evaluation of an inter-professional education module that prepares health students for collaborative mental health practice [2011]
- Development of STAR Learning Framework (Sensitise, Take Action and Reflect) [2010–2011]
- 2020 vision: The View from Queensland stakeholders on the changes affecting nursing [2010–2011]
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