Associate Professor
Christina Parker
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Biography
Associate Professor Parker is a passionate mid-career academic with a wealth of clinical skills in hospital, aged and community settings, having been a Registered Nurse for twenty-eight years, including fifteen years working clinically across hospital and community settings. In practice she has developed advanced clinical skills in community, primary and public health care; knowledge and skills in relation to ageing, acute and chronic medical conditions. As a mid-career researcher, she leads a wound healing research team at Queensland University of Technology, has excellent organisational and team management skills while working well with health providers and consumers. She also works effectively with industry incorporating them into wound care project grants and being invited by industry to speak at an international wound care conference dinner. She has contributed to four book chapters, published 22 peer-reviewed (9 as first author) mostly wound related articles and presented 26 oral or poster wound related conference presentations (4 internationally and 22 nationally), including four as invited speaker.
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing- Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects - Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Keywords
Wound care, Venous leg ulcers, Non-healing, Delayed healing, Recurrence, Risk assessment tools, Validation, Reliability
Discipline
Nursing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Nursing (Southern Cross University)
Professional memberships and associations
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency 2012-current
Wounds Australia 2009-current
Research
Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International 2012-current
Royal College of Nursing Australia 2011-current
Teaching
Undergraduate Units (QUT)
- NSB608: Wound Care in Practice
- Integrated Nursing Practice 2
Postgraduate Units (QUT/OES)
- NSN007: Contemporary issues in chronic care nursing
- Masters of Gerontology and nested suite of courses
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing
Experience
Public Health Lecture on wound care (2019)
ABC Radio Interviews (2020, 2019)
International university delegation talks on behalf of QUT (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014)
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Christina, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The Effects of a Diabetes Discharge Planning Enhancement Program (DDPEP) on Discharge Planning, Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy of People with Diabetes in Indonesia
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Carol Windsor, Emeritus Professor Helen Edwards, Dr Sandra Johnston