Eastern Health
Centre for Quality and Patient Safety ResearchThe Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Eastern Health leads collaborative research to optimise safety, quality, and experience of care for clinicians, patients and carers.
Visit websiteThe Deakin University – Eastern Health partnership was established in 2000. Our research spans acute, subacute, community, and residential care settings; fosters collaboration across health disciplines, and with patients and carers; and connects research with education, clinical practice and policy. The Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research – Eastern Health is led by Professor Julie Considine AO and supported by a team of skilled researchers. Our team works closely with researchers, clinicians, managers, research students, patients, and carers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds.
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Research agenda
Our work is organised into three pillars of research: patient safety, patient experience and health workforce. Through partnership and co-design with clinicians and consumers, our researchers specialise in developing, testing, and implementing evidence-based solutions to optimise patient and carer safety; clinician knowledge, skills and decision-making; and models of care delivery.
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Research projects
Patient safety
Recognising and responding to deteriorating patients
- Emergency departments (including Improving the safety and quality of emergency nursing care. Curtis et al. NHMRC GNT 2005403 and OPERATE: Older Persons Early Recognition Access and Treatment in Emergencies. Celenza A et al. MRFF GNT 2018473)
- Hospital-in-the-Home
- Post anaesthetic care unit
- Acute care wards (including Prioritising Responses Of Nurses To deteriorating patient Observations (PRONTO) Bucknall T et al NHMRC GNT 1114545)
- Aged care (including Improving Aged Care Quality and Safety (HIRAID-AGEDCARE). Shaban et al. MRFF GNT 2023190)
Rapid response systems
- Nursing interventions for patients with rapid response system triggers
- Clinicians use of pre-Medical Emergency Team and Medical Emergency Team tiers of the rapid response system
- Medical Emergency Team modifications
Nurse decision making
- Intensive care nurses’ decisions and management of vasoactive medications
- Acute care nurses’ decision making in recognising and responding to changes in patients’ clinical states
- Junior nurses’ experiences of implementing non-pharmacological interventions for delirium management: a qualitative descriptive study
Nurse-led care
- Emergency departments (including Giving patients an EPIC-START: An evidence based, data driven model of care to improve patient care and efficiency in emergency departments. Curtis et al. MRFF GNT 2017845)
Patient experience
Shared decision making
- Antenatal care with pregnant women with high body mass index
Medication safety
- Medication taking among consumers from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
Co-design
- Digital application to support patient involvement in safety critical healthcare communication
- Improving hospital discharge
Health workforce
Behaviour change
- Emergency nurses (approach to patient assessment)
- Subacute and acute care wards (use of falls alarms)
- Residential aged care (approach to patient assessment)
Leadership in healthcare
- Nurse and midwife managers
Educational preparation of specialist nurses
- Team-Based Learning
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Our team
Chair in Nursing
Prof. Julie Considine AOResearch Fellows
Dr Olumuyiwa Omonaiye
Dr Nantanit (Rainie) van Gulik
Ms Penny Casey -
Contact us
Deakin QPS
qps@deakin.edu.auEastern Health – Director
Professor Julie Considine AO
+61 3 9895 3177
Email Professor ConsidineEastern Health Partnership
Level 2, 5 Arnold Street
Box Hill, VIC 3128