Lecturer in Nursing La Trobe University

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1 PERSONAL DETAILS Home Address: 315 Mountain Creek Road Tawonga, 3697 Preferred contact numbers: Address: Present position: Qualifications: Lecturer in Nursing La Trobe University Doctor of Education, Master Training & Development, Grad.Dip (Adult Ed & Training), BN, RM, Cert 1V Assessment & Workplace Training Registration details of professional organisation (includes registration number): AHPRA Registration Number: NMW OVERVIEW OF CURRENT ROLE/RESPONSIBILITIES I am part of an academic team at the La Trobe Rural Health School in nursing. My teaching responsibilities are across years 1-3 of the Bachelor of Nursing program. In addition to my teaching load I am involved in research, with particular interest in Aged Care. Since arriving at La Trobe I have connected with the John Richards Initiative and am now part of a research team led by Professor Jeni Warburton. The research team is undertaking a project in residential aged care entitled: On a wing and a prayer: a birdwatching intervention in rural residential aged care. My role involves interviews with residents and staff (pre and post- test) to explore the effectiveness of the intervention on quality of life for residents as well as improvements in the facility environment. I was Principle Investigator on a project entitled: Exploring in-patients psychosocial/well-being needs. My role has included data collection and analysis as well as leading a small team writing for publication. 1. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 2012 Doctor of Education Thesis All of Us Getting Older Time for reflection: Nurses attitudes to working with older people in acute care University of Melbourne 2005 Certificate 1V Assessment and Workplace Training Mission Australia 2002 Master of Training and Development Major project Communities of practice in nursing preparation University of Melbourne 1996 Graduate Diploma Adult Education and Training University of Melbourne 1

Dip (Adult Ed & Training), BN, RM, Cert 1V Assessment & Workplace Training Registration details of professional organisation (includes registration number): AHPRA Registration Number: NMW0001022373

2 1994 Bachelor of Nursing La Trobe University 1990 Certificate Midwifery Royal Women s Hospital 1987 Certificate General Nursing Preston and Northcote Community Hospital 2. PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY August 2011 December 2013 Director Clinical Education Unit Austin Health March 2003 August 2011 June 2002 March 2003 Manager Clinical Nursing Education Austin Health Project Officer Education Nurse Policy Branch Policy & Strategic Projects Division Department of Human Services Nurse Educator/Acting Manager/Clinician Healthlinks Education and training Service Royal District Nursing Service 3. CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP Australian College of Nursing Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators Research Gate 4. PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP (EXTERNAL) Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria (Accreditation Committee) resigned December COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP Nil current 6. TEACHING (Academic current) Bachelor of Nursing Program 2014 Semester 1 Cornerstone Program (summer school) 2

Officer Education Nurse Policy Branch Policy & Strategic Projects Division Department of Human Services 1999 2002 Nurse Educator/Acting Manager/Clinician Healthlinks Education and training Service

3 Medication in Nursing (workshop groups x 2) Yr.2 Clinical Assessment and Decision Making (workshops and Clinical Learning Unit) yr.2 Nursing Older People Yr. 3 Semester 2 Research and Evaluation (workshop) Yr.1 7. PUBLICATIONS Journals Managing Chronic Conditions Yr.3 Mahoney, A., Coulter, C. and Doyle A. Co-ordinating Hospital Discharge, Australian Nursing Journal, Vol 8, No 1 July 2002 Mahoney, A. & Beckett, D. (2014) All of us getting older: time for reflection. Nurses attitudes to working with older people. Australian College of Nursing: the hive, Winter edition Peer reviewed Journals Edward, K Felstead, B & Mahoney, A (2011) Hospitalised Mental Health Patients and Oral Health. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. IF = Available online Salamone, K. Yacoub, E. Mahoney, A., & Edward, K.,(2013). Oral care of hospitalised older patients in the acute medical setting. Nursing and Health Sciences Edward, K, Salamone, K, Mahoney, AM, Mills, C, Mann, R., Arunasalam, K., McLean, A., Yacoub, E., Lorman, S., Aspridis, K., & McGillion, T (2013). Oral care for in-patients: Current practice Future directions. Dental Nursing, Vol 9 No 5, pp K Salamone, E Yacoub, AM.Mahoney, and K. Edward, Oral Care of Hospitalised Older Patients in the Acute Medical Setting, Nursing Research and Practice, vol. 2013, Article ID , 4 pages, doi: /2013/ D.Evardsson, A.Mahoney, E.Watt, J.Hardy, T.McGillion, F. Pearce, K.Salamone, A.McLean (2015) Psychometric performance of the six-item Caring Behaviours Inventory in an acute care context. Journal of Clinical Nursing E-Book Edward, K., Mahoney, A., Salamone, K., McLean, A., Arunasalam, K., Yacoub, E, Lorman, S., Aspridis, K., Mann, R & Mills, C. (2013) Considering oral hygiene and care of hospitalised acute medical and mental health patients, in PATIENT2, interdisciplinary.net (ebook), Oxfordshire, United Kingdom 8. CONFERENCE /RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS Managing at the Frontline Frontline management at RDNS Community Services and Health Industry Training Conference, Melbourne

Co-ordinating Hospital Discharge, Australian Nursing Journal, Vol 8, No 1 July 2002 Mahoney, A. & Beckett, D. (2014) All of us getting older: time for reflection.

4 A New Approach to Training Needs Analysis at Austin Health RCNA annual conference, Alice Springs 2004 Grusauskas, H. & Mahoney, A (2009) Interprofessional Governance for Teaching and Learning (Poster presentation) Simulation Conference Italy 2009 Nurses attitudes to working with older people in acute care Enquiry Group, Austin Health 2010 Edward, K., Mahoney, A., Salamone, K., McLean, A., Arunasalam, K, & Mills C (2011) Considering the oral hygiene and care of hospitalised acute medical and mental health patients. Austin Health Research Week, Oct. Edward, K., Mahoney, A.., Salamone, K., McLean, A., Arunasalam, K., Yacoub, E., Lorman, S., Aspridis, K., Mann, R. & Mills, C. (2012). Considering the oral hygiene and care of hospitalised acute medical and mental health patients. 2nd Global Conference: The Patient. Prague, Czech Republic May. Nurses attitudes to working with older people in acute care Department of Health, Improving Care of Older Persons Conferences. Traralgon, Victoria. 16 May (2012) Nurses attitudes to working with older people in acute care Sigma Theta Thu International Research Congress. Brisbane, Australia. 30 July 3 August (2012) Edward, K., Mahoney, A., Salamone, K., McLean, A., Arunasalam, K., Yacoub, E, Lorman, S., Aspridis, K., Mann, R & Mills, C. (2012). Documentation of oral hygiene requirements of hospitalised medical and mental health patients: a medical records audit; St Vincent s Research Week. Melbourne, VIC, August. Nurses attitudes to working with older people in acute care (Poster presentation) 46 th National Gerontology Conference, Sydney Australia November (2013) Mahoney, et al. (2013) Exlporing in-patient s psychosocial/well-being needs (Poster presentation) Austin Health Research Week, October Edvardsson D, Pearce F, Watt E, Mahoney AM, Hardy J,, McGillion T, Salamone K. (2014) The impact of Person-centredness and Caring on Quality of Care (Poster presentation) Austin Health Research Week Mahoney AM, Hardy J, McGillion T, Pearce F, Watt E, Salamone K, Edvardsson D. (2014) The significance of relationality in person-centred care a mixed methods analysis. (Poster presentation) Austin Health Research Week Edvardsson D, Mahoney AM, Hardy J, McGillion T, Pearce F, Watt E, Salamone K. (2014) Psychometric performance of the six-item Caring Behaviours Inventory. (Poster presentation) Austin Health Research Week 9. RESEARCH PROJECTS 4

Group, Austin Health 2010 Edward, K., Mahoney, A., Salamone, K., McLean, A.

5 Doctoral Project - Age Bias within Health Care: the challenge is the workforce (2008) Doctoral Thesis Nurses attitudes to working with older people in acute care: implications for education and practice (2011) Collaborative Project with Australian Catholic University Co-researcher Mouth Care practices in acute care (2011) Collaborative Project with La Trobe University (principal investigator) Exploring inpatients psychosocial/wellbeing needs (2012) Collaborative Project with La Trobe University Exploring the meaning and significance of hospital art (2013) John Richards Initiative On a wing and a prayer: a birdwatching intervention in rural residential aged care (2014) 10. GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION Masters student co-supervision to commence in Semester 2 The impact of depression on physical functioning among ICU survivors PhD student co-supervision to commence in Semester 2 What are the extrinsic and intrinsic factors for successful recruitment and retention of international Registered Nurses to regional and rural Australia? 11. GRANTS Year Amount Name Type 12. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2014) NHET-Sim program (on-line version) completed 2014 Attended Turbo-charge your writing workshop (La Trobe) 2014 Completed 2 day Effective Teaching for Higher Learning Workshop February 2014 Attended Healthy Together Workshop (La Trobe) 25 July 2014 Endnote 1 and 2 (La Trobe) August 2014 Introduction to SPSS (La Trobe) May

investigator) Exploring inpatients psychosocial/wellbeing needs (2012) Collaborative Project with La Trobe University Exploring the meaning and significance of hospital art (2013) John Richards

6 13. SERVICE Facilitation of Reflective Practice group at Albury/Wodonga Health (monthly) Participation in Experience La Trobe Day 2014 for High School students June REFEREES Melanie Bish Senior Lecturer, Academic Manager, Department of Rural Nursing & Midwifery La Trobe Rural Health School Faculty of Health Sciences T:

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