Dr Helen Calabretto

Welcome to my home page. I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery located at the City East Campus and Program Director for the following programs:-

- Graduate Certificate in Nursing (Speciality Area)

- Graduate Diploma in Nursing (Speciality Area)

- Graduate Diploma in Mental Health / Mental Health Nursing

- Master of Nursing/Mental Health/Midwifery

- Master of Nursing Science (Nurse Practitioner)

Please e-mail or phone me if you would like to discuss common research or teaching interests or would like any information about our postgraduate programs.

Helen Calabretto

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Postgraduate Programs - School of Nursing and Midwifery

School of Nursing and Midwifery Staff

Division of Health Sciences

• Paediatric and child health nursing
• Primary health care
• Development of study skills in beginning tertiary students
• Sexual and reproductive health care
• Manual handling

Fellow, Royal College of Nursing Australia

Member, Australian College of Children and Young People's Nurses

Member, Australian Confederation of Paediatric and Child Health Nurses (SA Branch)

Member, Australian Nursing Federation

Executive - South Australian Sexual Health Network for Nurses and Midwives

Member, Australian Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Member, National Editorial Board - Australian Medicines Handbook

Member, Editorial Advisory Board - Nursing 2009 (USA journal)

Member, Australian Sexual Health Nurses Association

Member, Emergency contraception working party

PhD (Flin)

Master of Educational Studies (Flin)

Bachelor of Education [Nsg Studies](SACAE)

Diploma of Teaching [Nse Ed](Sturt College)

Registered Nurse

Registered Midwife

Certificates in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care (Theory and Practice)

Advanced Manual Handling Training Certificate

FAYS Approved Trainer - Mandatory Notification

• Emergency contraception
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Adolescent health
• Child Health Nursing
• Asthma in children
• Paediatric Nursing
• Homeless young people
• Vision screening and primary school children
• Teaching and learning in beginning tertiary students

Calabretto H 2009 Emergency contraception - knowledge and attitudes in a group of Australian university students. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 33(3): 234-239

Watson C, Calabretto H 2007 Comprehensive review of conventional and non-conventional methods of management of recurrent vulvovaginal candiasis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 47: 262-272

Eronen R, Pincombe J, Calabretto H 2007 Support for parents of young infants. Neonatal, Paediatric and Child Health Nursing 10 (2) : 20-27

Calabretto H 2006 “Contraception” Chapter 31 pp561-582 in Midwifery. Preparation for Practice, Pairman S, Pincombe J, Thorogood C, Tracy S, (eds) Churchill/Livingstone, Elsevier, Sydney

Blyth E, Balen R, Calabretto H, Fraser C, Horrocks C, Manby M 2006 Involving children in health and social research – ‘human becoming’ or ‘active beings’? Childhood 13(10): 29-48

Trussell J, Calabretto H 2005 Cost savings from use of emergency contraceptive pills in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Aug 45(4): 308-311

Calabretto H 2005 Emergency contraception. Pharmacy Today May:41-43

Calabretto H 2005 Emergency contraception – a qualitative study of young women’s experiences. Contemporary Nurse Journal 18(1-2): 152-163

Calabretto H, Galloway E 2004 Emergency contraception – issues of deregulation. Australian Pharmacist 23(1) Jan: 46-52

Paech M, Calabretto H 1999 Screening the vision of school-aged children : an interdisciplinary approach. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 17(2): 7-12

Calabretto H 1999 Empowering women by preventing unwanted pregnancies. Contemporary Nurse 8(3) Sept: 91-8

Paech M, Calabretto H 1998 Children’s vision: a primary health care controversy. Australian Journal of Primary Health Interchange (4)4:89-97

Calabretto H 1998 But what is it supposed to look like? The development of an innovative study skills book to assist first year nursing students with the academic demands of their course. Published in the Conference Proceedings, 8th National Nurse Education Conference, Melbourne, Feb

Paech M, Calabretto H 1997 Primary health care for primary school children: trialing a new vision screening approach in South Australia. Published in the Conference Proceedings for the RCNA School Nurses Conference, Melbourne, Oct

Calabretto H, Marshall M 1996 The development of a Study Skills Book for Nursing Students. Published in the Conference Proceedings for the 2nd Pan-Pacific Conference First Year in Higher Education “Transition to Active Learning”, Melbourne, July

OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST

Calabretto H, Kokkinn B (eds) 2004 (2nd ed) Strategies for success in nursing studies. University of South Australia, Adelaide

Calabretto H, Kokkinn B (eds) 2000 Strategies for success in nursing studies. University of South Australia, Adelaide

Calabretto H, Marshall M 1996 (3rd ed) Study Skills for Nursing Students. Faculty of Nursing / Flexible Learning Centre University of South Australia (First edition 1994, second edition 1995)

Calabretto H, Paech M 1993 Action Research: Some Strategies to Assist Students of non-English Speaking Backgrounds in Fuller J, Barclay J, Zollo J (eds) Multicultural health care in South Australia. Painters Press, Adelaide: 101-104

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Nursing

• Nursing
• Sexual Health
• Reproductive Health
• Youth Health
• Emergency contraception, teenage pregnancy