Professor Patrick Crookes

PhD, BSc (Nursing), RGN (UK), RN (NSW), RNT, CertEd

Position:

• Dean, Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences, and Head, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Indigenous Health

Teaching:

• Research Appreciation and Application Skills
  Reflective Practice
• Critical Appraisal
• Grief and Bereavement

Research Interests:

• Aged and Dementia Care
• Clinical Leadership
• Evidence Based Practice, in particular, mechanisms for translating research findings into practice.
• Grief and Bereavement.

Affiliations:

• Member Australian Council of Deans of Nursing
• Member Royal College of Nursing Australia
• Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
• Associate Editor, Nurse Education in Practice (International Peer-Reviewed Journal)

Recent Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Crookes, PA & Davies, S 2004, 'Research Into Practice: Essential Skills for Reading and Applying Research in Nursing and Health Care'. Second Edition (Book).

Crookes, PA 2005, 'Pathophysiology. Applied to Nursing Practice'. Authors: Esther Chang, John Daly, Doug Elliott.

Crookes, PA 2001, 'NEP: supporting the brave new world of university based nurse education', Nurse Education in Practice, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-4.

Shorten, A, Wallace, MC & Crookes, P 2001, 'Developing information literacy: a key to evidence-based nursing', International Nursing Review, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 86-92.

Crookes, PA & Davies, S (eds) 1998, Research into care: essential skills for interpreting and applying research in nursing and health care, Bailliere-Tindall, Edinburgh, UK. (NB. As well as editing this text, I was major/sole contributor to 4 of the 13 chapters)

Crookes, PA, McDonnell, A, Davies, S& Shewan, J 1997, 'Practice nurses and the prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke: a literature review to promote evidence-based practice. Part 2: hypertension, raised blood cholesterol, lack of exercise and obesity', Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, vol. 1, pp. 198-205.

Crookes, PA 1996, 'The nature of grieving', The Journal of Cancer Care, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 57-59.

Interests:

• Soccer, Music, Reading, Happy Families!