bachelor of nursing - Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre (NAA)

TEACHING FACULTY
Professor Alison Kitson
Head of School of Nursing, the University of Adelaide
RN, BSc(Hons), DPhil, FRCN
Associate Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Director, Centre for Evidence Based Practice South Australia (CEPSA)
Alison Kitson took up the post of Professor of Nursing and Head of School at the University of Adelaide at the beginning of
2009. Prior to this she was the Royal Adelaide Hospital Nursing Education Fund Inaugural Fellow and has worked closely
with interdisciplinary teams around improving the fundamentals of care for older people going through the acute hospital
setting.
She has a long career in nursing and her research interests include getting evidence and innovations into everyday
practice. She has also taken over as Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Practice South Australia (CEPSA), a
Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute, where the research focus is on getting evidence into practice.
She holds many honorary positions internationally and has published extensively on the subject of implementing evidence into
practice. She has also held several executive roles, most recently Executive Director of Nursing at the Royal College of Nursing in the UK. Her links with
Green Templeton College span almost two decades, where she was the first Junior Research Fellow in Nursing to be appointed to the College.
Associate Professor Judy Magarey
Deputy Head of School of Nursing, the University of Adelaide
RN, CCN, DipN, BN, MN (Research), DNurs, FRCNA
Associate Professor Judy Magarey graduated as a Registered Nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the 1970s and
completed a Critical Care Certificate in the early 1980s. She has had over 13 years experience in education in the specialty
of Intensive care and coordinated the Graduate Diploma in Intensive Care Nursing at the University of Adelaide until 2001.
Professor Magarey was awarded a Diploma of Nursing from SACAE & FUSA in 1990, a Bachelor of Nursing from FUSA in
1992 and a Master of Nursing (research) at FUSA in 1998. In 2002 she was the first Australian nurse to graduate with a
Doctor of Nursing. She was responsible for writing the curriculum of the Bachelor of Nursing program first offered at the
University of Adelaide in 2005. Professor Magarey has supervised a number of doctoral students to successful completion
and teaches research methods in the Master of Nursing Science program. She is currently Deputy Head of the School of
Nursing at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests involve nurses led interventions in acute care.
Ms Tiffany Conroy
Program Coordinator and Lecturer for Bachelor of Nursing
RN, BN, MNSc, GCert (UniTeach&Learn), DipBusFLM, (Convenor), FACN
Tiffany Conroy graduated from Flinders University, South Australia in 1994 with a Bachelor of Nursing Practice and
commenced the Graduate Nurse Program at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the same year. Over the next 8 years she
worked predominately in Gastrointestinal Services in areas including a surgical ward as a Clinical Nurse, as the
Pre-Admission Coordinator maintaining the Day of Surgery Admission clinic, and in Ambulatory Care including the
Gastrointestinal Investigations Unit as the Clinical Nurse Consultant. Tiffany was then employed for 7 years at the Joanna
Briggs Institute in an education role and finally as the Associate Director-Resource Utilisation, Education and Training. In
November 2008, she took up a position with the University of Adelaide as the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Nursing
(Post Registration).
Tiffany has a Master in Nursing Science, a Graduate Diploma in University Teaching and Learning, a Diploma in Frontline
Management and is a qualified assessor through completing a Certificate in Assessment and Workplace Training.
Tiffany’s current role involves the development, coordination and delivery of the University of Adelaide Bachelor of
Nursing (Post-Registration) program in Singapore at Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre.
Dr Rick Wiechula
Senior Lecturer, the University of Adelaide
RN, Orth Cert, BA (Flinders), BNurs (UniSA), MNSc (Adelaide), DNurs (Adelaide)
Rick Wiechula is the Post Graduate Coordinator for the School of Nursing. His teaching and research interests include
issues concerning evidence-based healthcare with a clinical focus to wound management. Clinical experience has been
largely in orthopaedic and plastic surgical nursing. His Doctor of Nursing portfolio was based on the theme of using
multiple forms of evidence to inform the management of split thickness skin graft donor sites.
Rick is experienced in the conduct of systematic reviews and has recently been involved in research activities around
Knowledge Translation working with teams of acute care clinicians. Additionally he is a peer reviewer for a number of
nursing and wound management journals and has publications mainly in the area of evidence-based practice.
Rick is committed to higher education for nurses that is clinically focused and aims to prepare clinicians that use an
evidence based approach to improve health outcomes.
Mr Paul McLiesh
Lecturer for Bachelor of Nursing
RN, BN, GradDip(Ortho), MNsC
Paul McLiesh trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in 1989. He went on to complete his Bachelor of Nursing at
University of South Australia. His interest in Orthopaedic Nursing led him to complete his Graduate Diploma in
Orthopaedic Nursing at the University of Adelaide.
He has recently completed his Master of Nursing Science at the University of Adelaide. Paul worked at the RAH for 22
years with the past eight years in a level 3 position as Clinical Service Coordinator. Paul is now employed full time at the
University of Adelaide as Coordinator (Master of Nursing Science - Stage 1) of:
• Orthopaedic Nursing • Infection Control Nursing • Gerontological Nursing • Hyperbaric Nursing
Paul is also the lead for Acute and Chronic Clinical Nursing stream at the School of Nursing. His teaching and research
interests are in Venous Thromboembolism prevention, Occupational Health and Safety, risk management, pain
management in the older person and pressure ulcer prevention