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Director, Western Sydney Nursing & Midwifery Research Centre, Western Sydney University

Since becoming a Nurse in the early 1990s Rochelle has been an active researcher in critical and cardiothoracic patient care. A quantitative researcher, she has expertise in logistic and multivariate regression, repeated measures, risk prediction modelling and propensity analyses. She was the first Australian nurse to be awarded a Biomedical Scholarship from the NHMRC to undertake her PhD. Rochelle is the clinical representative for the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) Steering Committee and Quality Committee. She has published in leading cardiothoracic journals including Circulation, The European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Chest, the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Heart & Lung and the American Journal of Critical Care.

Rochelle’s research to date has investigated the ways in which point of care nursing practice impacts on patient safety, quality of care and the patient experience. She has a keen interest in reducing unnecessary variation in patient recovery by investigating modifiable risk factors that prevent wellness, improving patient participation in care and testing interventions to optimise patient outcome. In addition to supervising higher degree and Honours students, to date Rochelle has had the privilege of constant clinical engagement during her career, which has enabled her to mentor numerous clinicians from a variety of disciplines in understanding, generating and translating evidence into practice. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of clinical nursing researchers.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Adjunct professor, University of Wollongong
  • 2019–2021
    Professor, Western Sydney Local Health District
  • 2017–2019
    Associate Professor, Deakin University
  • 2008–2016
    Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne