Nursing and midwifery research at Subiaco

• Improving outcomes for patients, their families and caregivers, by supporting nursing and midwifery research projects across St John of God Subiaco Hospital
• Supporting an active culture of nursing and midwifery research within the hospital
• Enabling clinical nurses and midwives to initiate and conduct research projects across specialities such as maternity, general medicine and palliative care
• Sharing our research findings, which we do by presenting at external conferences and through journal publications

Our nursing and midwifery research program utilises an evidence-based approach to improving clinical care, service delivery and health outcomes.

We encourage nurses and midwives to investigate and trial new processes, which could benefit patient care, with projects spanning, maternity, palliative care and general nursing care.

Nurses and midwives are uniquely placed to identify areas for research to improve patient care and experience, as the professions with the most frequent patient contact.

Nurse Researcher
Alannah Cooper

Cooper, A. L., Albrecht, M. A., Kelly, S., Eccles, S. P., & Brown, J. A. (2024). A pre-post interventional study to reduce time spent on clinical documentation by nurses and midwives. Journal of Advanced Nursing. doi.org/10.1111/jan.15931

Cooper, A. L., Brennan, M., Leslie, G. D., & Brown, J. A. (2023). Integrating alternate data sources in mixed methods research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research. doi.org/10.1177/15586898231188500

Cooper, A. L., Tucknott, S., Mazzer, J., Martin-Robins, D., & Brown, J. A. (2024). A period prevalence study of palliative care need in adult outpatients. Progress in Palliative Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699260.2024.2339095

Cooper, A. L., Kelly, S. & Brown, J. A. (2023). Co-design of an intervention to reduce the burden of clinical documentation: A clinician-researcher collaboration. Applied Nursing Research, 75(151730). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2023.151730

Refeld, G., Saunders, C., Johansen, N., Sorial, E., & Cooper, A. L. (2023) A multi-method evaluation of a specialist breast nurse led survivorship clinic. Oncology Nursing Forum, 50(6), 753-764. https://doi:10.1188/23.ONF.753-764

Cooper, A. L., Leslie, G. D., Brown, J. A. (2022). Defining the influence of external factors on nurse resilience. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 31(6), 1523-1533. https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13059

Cooper, A.L., Mazzer, J., Martin-Robins, D., & Brown, J. A. (2022). A point prevalence study of palliative care need and referral rates in adult inpatients. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 31(21-22) 3144-3154. doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16148