Professor Wendy Cross
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
A mixed-method evaluation of peer-led education about attitudes towards consumers' recovery among Mental Health Nurses working in acute inpatient psychiatric units
Mental Health Nurses’ Attitudes on Consumers with Dual Diagnosis: A Thematic Analysis
Mental health nurses’ caring efficacy towards consumers with dual diagnosis: A descriptive study
Mental health nurses' empathy experiences towards consumers with dual diagnosis: A thematic analysis
Mental health nurses' empathy towards consumers with dual diagnosis: A descriptive study
"Resisting social identity threat and maintaining resilience": A qualitative study of Chinese parents following the loss of an only child
The effectiveness of chronic disease management planning on self-management among patients with diabetes at general practice settings in Australia: a scoping review
COVID-19: Factors Associated with the Psychological Distress, Fear and Resilient Coping Strategies among Community Members in Saudi Arabia
COVID-19: Psychological distress, fear, and coping strategies among community members across the United Arab Emirates
Mental Health Nurses' attitudes towards mental illness and recovery-oriented practice in acute inpatient psychiatric units: A non-participant observation study
Perspectives of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) community members regarding mental health services: A qualitative analysis
Psychological Distress, Fear and Coping Strategies among Hong Kong People During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to potential adverse effects on the mental health status of a...
The ethics of point of care devices and the need for AI policy frameworks in resources limited settings
The impact of COVID-19 on stress and resilience in undergraduate nursing students: A scoping review
Anti-stigma initiatives for mental health professionals—A systematic literature review
Associations between perceived overqualification, organisational commitment and work passion of nurses: A multicentre cross-sectional study
Associations between perceived overqualification, transformational leadership and burnout in nurses from intensive care units: A multicentre survey
Evaluation of interprofessional student teams in the emergency department: opportunities and challenges
Job experiences, challenges, revelations and narratives of nurse academics. A qualitative study
Mental health at the COVID-19 frontline: An assessment of distress, fear, and coping among staff and attendees at screening clinics of rural/regional settings of Victoria, Australia
Mental health nurses perceptions of missed nursing care in acute inpatient units: A multi-method approach
Psychological Distress, Fear and Coping Strategies During the Second and Third Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southern Germany
Quality of life in cancer patients with different preferences for nurse spiritual therapeutics: The role of psychological capital
Aim To explore the status of quality of life and psychological capital and analyse the different...
“Resisting Social Identity Threat and Maintaining Resilience”: A Qualitative Study of Chinese Parents Following the Loss of an Only Child
Transition Experiences of Indian Nurses Into Australian Mental Health System
Introduction: In the past decade, there has been an influx of migrant nurses from India to...
Association between psychological capital and spiritual care competencies of clinical nurses: A multicentre cross-sectional study
Aims: To investigate the status of spiritual care competencies among clinical nurses and their...
Condom use consistency and associated factors among college student men who have sex with men from seven colleges in changsha city: A cross-sectional survey
Background: College student men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk for HIV infection...
COVID-19: Factors associated with psychological distress, fear, and coping strategies among community members across 17 countries
Background The current pandemic of COVID-19 impacted the psychological wellbeing of populations...
COVID-19 Related Psychological Distress, Fear and Coping: Identification of High-Risk Groups in Bangladesh
Effect of recovery-based interventions on recovery knowledge and attitudes of mental health professionals, regarding recovery-oriented practice: A quantitative narrative review
Mental health recovery is an enabling process encouraging consumers to live a productive life,...
Feasibility of brief distress screening for family caregivers of adults diagnosed with schizophrenia in Changsha, Hunan, China
What is known on the subject? Distress screening amongst FGs is emphasized in worldwide studies,...
Influence of core competence on voice behavior of clinical nurses: A multicenter cross-sectional study
Background: Voice behavior, referred to as a positive guarantee for organizational development,...
Nursing Education to Enhance Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Community Access to Mental Health Services: A Scoping Review
Research has found that training health care professionals can enhance the access of the...
Psychological distress, fear and coping among Malaysians during the COVID-19 pandemic
Reliability of the tools used to examine psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping amongst migrants and non-migrants in Australia
Study tools examining psychological distress, fear of COVID-19 and coping amongst migrants and...
Resilience-based multifactorial model of depression among people who lost an only-child in China
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Severity of illness and distress in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia: Do internalized stigma and caregiving burden mediate the relationship?
Aims: To test a multiple mediation model of internalized stigma and caregiving burden in the...
Strategies for Implementing Consumer Involvement in Nursing Handover on Acute Mental Health In-Patient Units
Consumer participation in the process of care delivery is crucial to recovery-oriented care....
Willingness, preferred ways and potential barriers to use pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention among men who have sex with men in China
Work experiences of Nurse Academics: A qualitative study
Background: The evidence suggests that heavy workloads, pressure to publish, lack of recognition...
Assessing the quality of mobile applications targeting postpartum depression in China
Postpartum depression is a serious mental illnessdisorder that occurs after delivery and is one...
A unified call to action from Australian nursing and midwifery leaders: ensuring that Black lives matter
Nurses and midwives of Australia now is the time for change! As powerfully placed, Indigenous and...
A WeChat-based “Three Good Things” positive psychotherapy for the improvement of job performance and self-efficacy in nurses with burnout symptoms: A randomized controlled trial
Aim: To evaluate the effects of a WeChat-based “Three Good Things” on job performance and...
Chinese mental health professionals’ perceptions of shared decision-making regarding people diagnosed with schizophrenia: A qualitative study
The implementation of shared decision-making regarding people diagnosed with schizophrenia is...
Experiences of mental health nurses working in general practice: A qualitative study
Background: This paper reports on a qualitative study utilising in-depth interviews of sixteen...
Factors associated with psychological distress, fear and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the personal, professional and social life of...
Feeling responsible: Family caregivers’ attitudes and experiences of shared decision-making regarding people diagnosed with schizophrenia: A qualitative study
Objective: To explore the attitudes and experiences of family caregivers concerning their...
I am the person who knows myself best: Perception on shared decision-making among hospitalized people diagnosed with schizophrenia in China
hared decision-making is related to better health outcomes in serious mental illness. It is not...
Impact of WeChat-based 'three good things' on turnover intention and coping style in burnout nurses
Background: Few studies have considered functions of nurses’ positive personality and behaviours...
Mental Health Nurses’ Attitudes towards Consumers with co-Existing Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Problems: A Scoping Review
Consumers with co-existing mental health and drug/alcohol problems are exposed to more stigma...
Occupational stress facing nurse academics—A mixed-methods systematic review
Aim: To better understand occupational stress faced by nurse academics. Methods: A mixed-methods...
Perceptions of shared decision-making in severe mental illness: An integrative review
What is known about shared decision-making?: There is increasing evidence of the positive impact...
Shared decision-making in serious mental illness: A comparative study
Objective: To compare consumer and mental health professionals’ (MHPs) preferences for...
The benefits of consumer involvement in nursing handover on acute inpatient unit: Post-implementation views
The involvement of consumers in handover with nurses has been identified as reducing...
Translation and psychometric testing of a decision-making scale
What is known about shared decision-making?: There is increasing investigation of shared...
Validation of the distress thermometer for caregivers of children and adolescents with schizophrenia
Aim: To develop and psychometrically test the distress thermometer for caregivers (DT-C) and...
An evaluation of a positive psychological intervention to reduce burnout among nurses
This quasi-experimental study aimed to evaluate the positive psychological intervention of...
A study protocol of mobile phone app-based cognitive behaviour training for the prevention of postpartum depression among high-risk mothers
Background: The changes in China's family planning policy in recent years have led to changes in...
A systematic review of prevalence and risk factors of postpartum depression in Chinese immigrant women
Evaluation of a method to estimate the point prevalence of cognitive impairment and delirium in a multi-campus Australian health service
Objective: To design, test (pilot) and implement a study to estimate the point prevalence of...
Hospital discharge data under-reports delirium occurrence: results from a point prevalence survey of delirium in a major Australian health service
Background: Delirium in hospitalised patients is common, and a risk factor for adverse outcomes....
Medication adherence and cost-related medication non-adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A cross-sectional study
Aim: First, to assess the clinical characteristics and medication adherence to oral rheumatoid...
Mental health nurses' attitudes towards consumer involvement in nursing handover pre and post an educational implementation
Involving mental health consumers in nursing handover is a recent introduction to practise in...
Rheumatologists' insight into medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A qualitative study
Background: Medication non-adherence is prevalent among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)....
Scope of practice and workforce issues confronting Australian Enrolled Nurses: A qualitative analysis
Background: Enrolled Nurses constitute an important part of the Australian health care system....
The effects of resilience and turnover intention on nurses' burnout: Findings from a comparative cross-sectional study
Aims and objectives: To investigate burnout among nurses from Australia and China and explore the...
The risk factors of antenatal depression: A cross-sectional survey
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict nurse's intention to undertake dual practice in China: A multicentre survey
Aims and objectives: To identify the intention of nurses to dual practice (DP) and inform...
An Exploration of the Perspectives of Associate Nurse Unit Managers Regarding the Implementation of Smoke-free Policies in Adult Mental Health Inpatient Units
Context: In Adult Mental Health Inpatient Units, it is not unexpected that leadership of...
Burnout and its association with resilience in nurses: A cross-sectional study
Aims and objectives: To investigate the prevalence and extent of burnout on nurses and its...
Do out-of-pocket costs affect medication adherence in adults with rheumatoid arthritis? A systematic review
Introduction: For individuals with a chronic condition, long-term management of their medication...
Meeting the needs of young people with psychosis: We must do better
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Referral of individuals with cardiovascular disease to secondary prevention programmes
Background: secondary prevention programmes help manage risk factors, prevent progression of...
Roles and functions of enrolled nurses in Australia: Perspectives of enrolled nurses and registered nurses
Aims and objectives: To determine, from the perspectives of enrolled nurses and registered...
Therapeutic optimism and attitudes among medical and surgical nurses towards attempted suicide
Identification of the attitudes to consumers admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt and...
Views of mental health consumers about being involved in nursing handover on acute inpatient units
The involvement of consumers in handover with nurses has been identified as reducing...
What do clinicians understand about deaths reportable to the coroner - Use of clinical scenarios to enhance learning
Young adults' knowledge and attitudes towards cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Aims and objectives: To explore young adults' knowledge and attitudes of cardiovascular disease...
Clinical coaches in nursing and midwifery practice: Facilitating point of care workplace learning and development
Contemporary demands for workplace learning and development in real time have guided one health...
Exploring resilience in Chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study
Aims: To explore the state of resilience and its predictors among nurses in mainland China....
Female nurses' burnout symptoms: No association with the Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis
Across the world, hospital nurses experience a high level of burnout. Exploring biochemical...
Mixed gender accommodation in acute care: Time to end another 'unfortunate experiment'
The introduction of mixed gender wards that have permeated Australian hospitals in recent years...
Positive psychotherapy for depression and self-efficacy in undergraduate nursing students: A randomized, controlled trial
Nursing students across the globe experience depressive symptoms, and many interventions have...
Re: Guest Editorial Ann Kinnear Women and Birth 30 (2017) 168
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Response to: Roberts, D. 2016. Editorial: Should mental health nursing have a separate registration?
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"Settling for less": Designing undergraduate nursing curricula in the context of national accreditation
The quality of undergraduate nursing education is essential to producing graduates that are safe...
The dynamic role of the graduate nurse in aged care: An Australian experience of delivering an aged care graduate nurse program
In 2012 an innovative graduate nurse program was implemented within the Australian aged care...
The effectiveness of nurse education and training for clinical alarm response and management: a systematic review
Aims and objectives: To identify the effectiveness of education interventions provided for nurses...
What do clinicians understand about deaths reportable to the Coroner?
Setting The study setting is a tertiary referral hospital of over 980 beds, in Victoria,...
Can we predict burnout among student nurses? An exploration of the ICWR-1 model of individual psychological resilience
The nature of nursing work is demanding and can be stressful. Previous studies have shown a high...
Dispositional mindfulness and employment status as predictors of resilience in third year nursing students: a quantitative study
Background: Nursing students will graduate into stressful workplace environments and resilience...
Exploring environmental factors in nursing workplaces that promote psychological resilience: Constructing a unified theoretical model
Building nurses' resilience to complex and stressful practice environments is necessary to keep...
Measuring pregnancy care: Towards better maternal and child health
Background Obstetrics remains the largest medico-legal liability in healthcare. Neither an...
NURSING ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH COMORBID SUBSTANCE ABUSE: A BRIEF REVIEW OF LITERATURE
A new study in Melbourne aims to assess knowledge, skills and attitudes of mental health nurses...
THE NEED FOR MORE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY
Occupational Health Nurse Robyn Stone is researching health outcomes from worker health...
Adjusting to mental health nursing in Australia
A repertoire of leadership attributes: An international study of deans of nursing
Aim: To determine which characteristics of academic leadership are perceived to be necessary for...
Attitudes of midwives and maternal child health nurses towards suicide: A cross-sectional study
Perinatal women are at risk of depression and/or suicidality. Suicide is the highest cause of...
Attracting generation Z into nursing as a career
Development of self-efficacy of newly graduated registered nurses in an aged care program
Aim: To evaluate an aged care program in developing self-efficacy of newly graduated registered...
Evaluation of an advanced perinatal mental health program for midwives
Innovating point of care education: the clinical coach
Motivational interviewing to explore culturally and linguistically diverse people's comorbidity medication self-efficacy
Aims and objectives: To examine the perceptions of a group of culturally and linguistically...
Partnership for educating new graduates working in aged care
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Situating clinical assessment tools within workplace learning
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Staff Burnout - A Comparative Study of Metropolitan and Rural Mental Health Nurses within Australia
This article will present the findings of a research study that investigated the extent to which...
Addressing information needs of vulnerable communities about incontinence: A survey of ten CALD communities
Urinary incontinence is a common and distressing condition. Using focus groups, we explored the...
Doing grounded theory: Experiences from a study on designing undergraduate nursing curricula in Australia
This chapter discusses processes used in undertaking a grounded theory study on designing...
Inside stories: Maternal representations of first time mothers from pre-pregnancy to early pregnancy
Background: According to the psychoanalytical literature, it is during pregnancy that maternal...
Leadership and management skills of general practice nurses: Experience or education?
A key finding of this qualitative exploratory descriptive study into advanced nursing for general...
Mental health: Outcomes of 10 babies of mothers with a history of serious mental illness
Women with serious mental illness are frequently on antipsychotic medications to maintain their...
Perinatal staff perceptions of safety and quality in their service
Background: Ensuring safe and appropriate service delivery is central to a high quality maternity...
Understanding the unconscious mind: Jungian psychology and mental health nursing
ow might the unconscious part of the mind affect mental health patients' emotions or behaviour?...
What does practice development (PD) offer mental health-care contexts? A comparative case study of PD methods and outcomes
Practice development (PD) in mental health nursing has been progressing over the last decade;...
Comment on: Thompson D.R. & Darbyshire P. (2013) Is academic nursing being sabotaged by its own killer elite? Journal of Advanced Nursing 69 (1), 1-3
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Leadership and management in advanced nursing in general practice.
The 'dis-ease' of dying: Challenges in nursing care of the dying in the acute hospital setting. A qualitative observational study
Background: Changes in health care and an ageing population have meant that more people are dying...
Using transformational leadership skills while working in transactional environments
A conversation about practice development and knowledge translation as mechanisms to align the academic and clinical contexts for the advancement of nursing practice
Practice development (PD) and knowledge translation (KT) have emerged recently as methodologies...
Dual vulnerabilities: Mental illness in a culturally and linguistically diverse society
People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds hold attitudes, values and...
Editorial: Meeting the health care needs associated with poverty, homelessness and social exclusion: The need for an interprofessional approach
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Implementing clinical supervision for ICU Outreach Nurses: A case study of their journey
Introduction: Many health services with Intensive Care Units have developed ward liaison...
Qualitative observation in a clinical setting: Challenges at end of life
This paper explores the methodological challenges associated with undertaking qualitative...
Student centredness in clinical learning: The influence of the clinical teacher
Aim. This article reports a longitudinal study examining how nursing students learn on clinical...
Using transformational leadership skills while working in transactional environments
An exploration of the role and scope of the Clinical nurse consultant (CNC) in a metropolitan health service
Introduction: Clinical nurse consultants have been a part of the nursing workforce for some time...
Consumer participation: power and change.
Developing the health workforce: What constitutes clinical education?
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Improving services for individuals with a dual diagnosis: A qualitative study reporting on the views of service users
Individuals with high prevalence mental health (HPMH) and concurrent alcohol and/or drug...
Is deinstitutionalization working in our community?
This exploratory study examined the impact of deinstitutionalization on consumers admitted to a...
Outcomes of a clinical partnership model for undergraduate nursing students
Background: Over the last decade several innovative approaches to enhance students' transition to...
Patient safety: A literature review to inform an evaluation of a maternity service
This literature review summarises the history of patient safety initiatives in health-care...
Psychotropics and fertility
While the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders has advanced over the past...
Recognising dying in acute care.
Screening for comorbid substance use disorders among people with a mental health diagnosis who present to emergency departments
Background: The current study was designed to evaluate a screening process for alcohol and other...
Understanding consumer participation in mental health: Issues of power and change
Consumer participation occurs in all Victorian public mental health services. Area mental health...
Australians living with and managing hepatitis C
This paper discusses the psychosocial impact of being diagnosed with hepatitis C virus (HCV). The...
Being different: A phenomenological exploration of a group of veteran psychiatric nurses
Concern regarding the low numbers of graduate nurses expressing interest in entering the...
Clinical Learning Environment Inventory: Factor analysis
Aim: This paper is a report of the psychometric testing of the Clinical Learning Environment...
Clinical supervision of general nurses in a busy medical ward of a teaching hospital
Aim: To implement and evaluate group clinical supervision (CS) for Associate Nurse Unit Managers...
Extending boundaries: Clinical communication with culturally and linguistically diverse mental health clients and carers
We are often confronted with the dilemmas of interacting with people from different cultural...