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DR MARIE FRANCES GERDTZ



Contact Details

Organization: Nursing, Nursing
Position: SENIOR LECTURER/EMERGENCY NURSING, MRO FELLOWSHIPS (CAREER INTERRUPTIONS) SCHEME
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Homepage: http://www.nursing.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/profiles/m_gerdtz.html
Work: 83440780
Fax: 93473172
Room: 153
Level: 01
Building: 723 Swanston St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Emergency Triage Australasian Triage Scale Australia, Sweden
Violence in healthcare settings emergency environments, occupational violence Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Sweden Lund University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Accidenrt and Emergency Nursing Preston and Northcote Community Hospital 01-Jul-1990
Graduate Diploma Adult education and Training University of Melbourne 01-Dec-1993
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 22-Aug-2003
Bachelor of Nursing La Trobe University 31-Dec-1995

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Royal College of Nursing Australia 01-Jan-1998
Member College of Emergency Nursing Australia 01-Jan-2002

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship The University of Melbourne Australian Postgraduate Award 01-Jan-1999
Prize Emergency Nurse's Association Victoria Publication Prize 01-Jan-2000
Scholarship The University of Melbourne School of Nursing Postdoctoral Scholarship 01-Jan-2004
Prize Preston and Northcote Community Hospital Edward and Olive Smith prize for Emergency Nursing 01-Jul-1990

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Tackling nurse shortages in Australia Chief Investigator DEPT OF TREASURY & FINANCE,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
Assessing risk factors and service needs for homelessness: perspectives of homeless people and health service providers Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
ST VINCENTS HEALTH
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004
DEVELOPING CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH TRIAGE Chief Investigator NURSES BOARD OF VIC Mona Menzies Postdoctoral Research Grant 26/02/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • 5-20: a model of minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Nursing Management
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 64-71
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  • Invasive ventilation in the emergency department. Part 1: What nurses need to know.


     


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 21-25
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  • Invasive ventilation in the emergency department. Part 2: Implications for patient safety

     


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 26-29
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  • Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of re-presentation to an Australian inner city emergency department: implications for service delivery


    Year: 2007
    Journal: BMC Public Health
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 320
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  • Homelessness, health status and emergency department use: An integrated review of the literature
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 178-185
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  • Influence of task properties and subjectivity on consistency of triage: a simulation study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Advanced Nursing
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 180-190
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  • Nursing skill mix and outcomes: a Singapore perspective
    Year: 2007
    Journal: International Nursing Review
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 56-62
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Editorial
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 95
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Publications in 2005

Reports

  • Occupational violence in nursing: an analysis of the phenomenon of code grey/black events in four Victorian hospitals
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Department of Human Services (Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Reports

  • Triage Education Resource Book
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing(Canberra)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Triage nurses' clinical decision making: an observational study of urgency assessment
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Advanced Nursing
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 550-561
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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