Dr Jane O'Brien
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Biography
Dr Jane O’Brien is a Registered Nurse and Exercise Physiologist with over 15 years of experience across hospital and community settings. Dr O’Brien is a transdisciplinary researcher specialising in evidence-based behaviour change, research impact and stakeholder participation in chronic disease management to improve clinical, and functional outcomes for older adults. Dr O’Brien’s main area of research has focused on developing and testing through clinical trials the effectiveness of a home-based progressive resistance exercise programme to improve wound healing. This work has been successfully implemented in practice at Royal District Nursing Services (VIC) and the Bundall Medical Centre (QLD). She has also undertaken several large-scale inter-disciplinary projects in hospital and health service settings with the aim of reducing readmission rates for older adults with chronic disease with a current research interest in frailty.Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Keywords
Chronic disease, Self-management, Exercise, Behaviour change, Implementation science, Randomised Controlled Trials
Research field
Nursing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Teaching
NSB103 Health Assessment
Publications
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