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Professor Kenneth Walsh

RPN, RGN, BNurs (UNE), PhD (Adelaide)

Position:

Professor of Nursing Practice Development

Ken is the inaugural Professor of Nursing Practice Development. The position is a joint appointment between the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health and the South East Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service, Southern Hospitals Network. Ken is the Director of the Nursing Development and Research Unit situated on Level 8 of the Wollongong Hospital complex.

Research Interests:

Evaluation research, organisation change, practice development and the nurse-patient relationship.

Recent Publications:

• Moss, C., Walsh, K. and Jordan, Z. 2008. (in press) A Pluralistic Evaluation of the Impacts of Practice Development in an Emergency Department, Practice Development in Health Care.
• McCormack, B., Manley, K. and Walsh, K. Person-centred Systems and Processes. (Chapter 5). In McCormack, B., Manley, K. and Wilson, V. (Eds) (in press). Practice Development in Nursing: International Perspectives. Blackwell.
• Walsh, K. and Moss, C. 2007 Transitions in Mental Health, In McAllister, M. (Ed) Solution Focused Nursing: Re-thinking Practice. Palgrave, London.
• Walsh, K., Moss, C., Lawless, J., McKelvie, R. and Duncan, L. 2008. Puzzling Practice: A strategy for working with clinical practice issues. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 14:94-100.
• King, S. and Walsh, K. 2007. "I think PCA is great, but…" – surgical nurses' perceptions of patient controlled analgesia. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 13:276-283.
• Brown, S., FitzGerald, M. and Walsh, K. 2007. Delirium dichotomy: A review of recent literature. Contemporary Nurse, 26:238-247.
• Walsh, K. Duke, J. Foureur, M. and MacDonald, L. 2007. Designing an effective evaluation plan: a tool for understanding and planning evaluations for complex nursing contexts. Contemporary Nurse, 25(1):136-146.
• Walsh, K. 2007. On equilibrium: Reflections on Practice Development and the philosophy of John Ralston Saul. Nursing Philosophy, 8:201-209.
• Walsh, K. and Moss, C. 2007. Practice Development in New Zealand: Reflections on the influence of culture and context. Practice Development in Health Care, 6(1):82-85.