Dr Marie Heartfield

Welcome to my UniSA homepage. I am an active member of the university academic staff and nursing profession with teaching and research interests in education of health professionals and the contribution of nursing to health care. I am joint Interprofessional Learning Lead for the Division of Health Sciences and have particular interests in interprofessional education and practice, role and health service redesign, program evaluation and the intersection of practice, policy and regulation.

The following links will take you to recent examples of my research and consultancy work and 2007 joint publication: Andre, K. Heartfield, M. Professional Portfolios: Evidence of Competency for Nurses and Midwives, Elsevier. Marrickville

Professional Portfolios

Department of Health & Ageing: An analysis of training and information options to support chronic disease prevention and self-management in primary health care.

Evaluation of Wound Management, Immunisation and Pap Smear Training and Support for Practice Nurses

Steering Committee Member, Australasian Interprofessional Practice and Education Network www.aippen.net

Royal College of Nursing Australia, Fellow, SA chapter committee member and governance role as national Board Member

PhD (Melb), MNS, BN (Education), DipAppSc.

Advanced Clinical Nursing Course (FMC).

General Nursing Certificate (RAH).

2007 Competency Standards and Educational Requirements for Specialist Breast Nurses in Australia Yates P, Evans A, Moore A, Heartfield M, Gibson T, Luxford K. Collegian 14 (1) 11-15.

2006 Heartfield M. ‘You don’t want to stay here: Surgical nursing and the disappearance of patient recovery time’ in The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered. The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Series, S.Gordon S.Nelson (editors) Cornell University Press. New York.

2005 Heartfield M. Regulating hospital use: length of stay, beds and whiteboards. Nursing Inquiry. 12 (1) 21-26.

2005 Gibson T. and Heartfield M. Mentoring for nurses in general practice: An Australian study. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 19 (1), January 50-62

2005 Heartfield M. Gibson T, Mentoring for nurses in general practice: national issues and challenges. Collegian.12 (2)17-21.

2005 Heartfield M and Gibson T. Australian enrolled nurses have their say in a national research project: second level nursing:Part 1 Teamwork and recognition, Contemporary Nurse. 19 (1).

2005 Gibson T. and Heartfield M. Australian enrolled nurses have their say in a national research project: second level nursing: Part 2 Scope of Practice, Contemporary Nurse. 19 (1).

2004 Heartfield M. In Wellness and Wealth: Contemporary Surgical Services, in Ethics Power and Practice. Sickness and Health Series: Editor S. Nelson. Pages 83-96. Praxis Publications,Bournemouth UK.

2004. Gibson T, Heartfield M. Contemporary EN practice: opportunities & issues Collegian 10 (1) 22-26.

2003 Price K, Heartfield M and Gibson T Nursing career pathways. National Review of Nursing Education Nursing Regulation & Practice. Commonwealth, Canberra. ISBN 0 642 77288 6

2002 Heartfield, Dr Marie Governing Recovery: An Analysis of Hospital Length of Stay. PhD thesis, School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne. http://eprints.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001712/

2000 Heartfield M. Research Priorities for Specialist Practice. Accident and Emergency Nursing. 8(4), 214-222.

2000 Heartfield M and Smith C. Collaborative Processes to Enhance Student Learning and Clinical Nursing Research, Australian Electronic Journal of Nursing Education, 5:3.

1997 Gibson .Heartfield Critical Pathways Analysis. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 2. 189-193.

1996 Heartfield M. Nursing Documentation and Nursing Practice: A Discourse Analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24, (1). July 98-103.