Anita has had many years of experience in aged care nursing across a number of contexts in practice, research and teaching. In practice she has worked in different settings in both the acute, community and aged care sectors. Since becoming a nurse academic, the focus of her teaching and research has been in aged care and nursing practice across sectors especially in areas of dementia care and end of life care.

She teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the tertiary level with an emphasis on dementia care, aged care and end of life care, and also supervises higher degree students who have an interest in aged care, general nursing or qualitative research. Some of the research undertaken by Anita has included nursing practice in aged care, palliative care in residential aged care, Indigenous health, clinical education in residential aged care, person centred dementia care and cultural and linguistic diversity in carers, staff and persons with dementia.

Recently Anita’s research focussed on grey nomads with diabetes and their self-management, as well as intergenerational programs in residential aged care. She was the chief investigator that informed the development of the educational resource ‘Come Into My World’ for undergraduate healthcare students on how to interact with persons with dementia. 

Current research is exploring the experiences of newly graduated nurses in a transition to practice program in aged care.

Research methodology and knowledge development in nursing; nursing practice, student learning, aged care, dementia care, palliative care, mental health for elderly, chronic disease management. Qualitative methodology as applied in any health related or nursing field.

• Advance Directives (1)
• Health Access (1)
• End of Life Care (2)
• Vaccine hesitancy (1)
• Older people networks (1)
• Dementia (1)
• Transition for newly graduated nurses (1)

• Dementia (2)
• Nurse Practitioner (1)
• Rehabilitation nursing (1)
• Palliative care (1)
• Complementary therapies (1)
• AIDs (1)
• Aged care (1)

My philosophy for supervision is student focussed and collaborative as I view students as peers. Further to this, my role is to advise, suggest, guide, teach, and direct the student to undertake meaningful research and timely completion for successful examination. Regular open and honest communication and meetings are part of the supervisory role.

Qualitative research methodologies in health and nursing.