Dr Julia Gilbert is a Lecturer in the School of Health at Federation University Australia. Dr Gilbert has a law degree and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland as a legal practitioner. Julia is also a registered nurse and midwife, and completed her PhD in dementia-specific care nursing.
Julia has published widely and her research interests include legal and ethical decision-making, professional practice, patient safety, mental health, aged care, dementia care and dementia-specific nursing. She has significant expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research paradigms.
Julia currently teaches and coordinates undergraduate nursing courses including legal and ethical decision making, mental health nursing and research.
Career Considerations in Nurse-Led Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinics: a Two-Center Qualitative Study
Nurses' Perspectives on the Proposed Seclusion Elimination in Mental Health Wards
Registered nurses knowledge, attitudes and practices of pain management for aged care residents with dementia: an integrative review
Nurse leadership in promoting and supporting civility in health care settings: A scoping review
Thank You for Listening: An Exploratory Study Regarding the Lived Experience and Perception of Medical Errors Among Those Who Receive Care
The issue of medical errors, or adverse events caused within a health care context or by a health...
A labour of love: Reward and satisfaction for nurses: Findings from a grounded theory study in dementia care
Aim: To understand nurses’ perceptions of quality nursing care in the dementia-specific care...
A critical appraisal of what organisational approaches are pivotal to improve patient safety.
Background: Patient safety remains a priority for healthcare organisations globally. There...
Factors influencing hand hygiene practice of nursing students: A descriptive, mixed-methods study
Developing nursing students' knowledge and practice of infection prevention and control (IPC) is...
Public perception of medical errors: Experiences and risks shared in Australia
Background: Research into patient safety has largely focused on healthcare organisations...
Chronic obesity
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Dementia care
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Diabetes mellitus
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Quality nursing care in dementia specific care units: a scoping review
Background: The concept of quality nursing care in a dementia specific unit is perceived as...
'To die, to sleep'- assisted dying legislation in Victoria: A case study
Background: Assisted dying remains an emotive topic globally with a number of countries...
Acute neurological conditions
Acute Nursing Care
Admitting and assessing medical and surgical clients
Nonstandard advance health care directives in emergency departments: Ethical and legal dilemma or reality: A narrative review
People have tattooed themselves for thousands of years, and it remains popular with various...
To err is human: medication patient safety in aged care, a case study
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore an identified medication error using a root...
Surgical consent and the importance of a substitute decision-maker: A case study
At law, all individuals are presumed to have the legal capacity to provide consent or refusal of...
'When no means no' - Adolescent right to refuse an elective surgical procedure: A case study
At law, adults are presumed to have legal competency to provide consent for or refusal to consent...
Chronic Obesity
Dementia Care
Diabetes Mellitus
The clinical environment - do student nurses belong? A review of australian literature
Objective – broad aim This paper aims to identify some of the issues related to the nursing...