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Senior Lecturer/HOP (Population Hlth)
BA(UQ), MHSc(CQU), PhD(QUT), GCFL (CQU)
Original practice background in exercise physiology and then nursing. My research interests, however, have focused on history of health, in particular history of nursing. More recently, my focus is within the discipline of health promotion.
International Union of Health Promotion and Education
Oral History of Australia Association
Australian History Association
Madsen, W 2008, Under a Capricorn sky: A history of nursing in Central Queensland, VDM Verlag Dr Muller, Saarbrucken, Germany.
Madsen, W & Schlotzer, A (eds) 2002, Smashing the glass ceiling : women researchers in a regional community. Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Qld.
Madsen, W 2010, 'Historical and contemporary nursing practice', in Berman, A. Snyder, S. J. Krozier, B. Erb, G. Levett-Jones, T. Dwyer, T. Hales, M. Harvey, N. Luxford, Y. Moxham, L. Park, T. Parker, B. Reid-Searl, B & Stanley, D (eds), Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing , First Australian edition, Pearson, Frenchs Forest.
Bradshaw, J & Madsen, W 2007, 'Gender and domesticity in Woogaroo Asylum 1865-1869', in B Knight, B Walker-Gibbs & J Delamoir (eds), Research into 21st Century Communities, Post Pressed, Teneriffe, Qld, pp. 33-46. http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/12327
Hallett, CE, Madsen, W, Pateman, B & Bradshaw, J 2012, '"Time enough! or not enough time!" An oral history investigation of some British and Australian community nurses' responses to demands for "efficiency" in health care, 1960-2000', Nursing History Review, vol. 20, pp. 136-161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1062-8061.20.136
Madsen, W 2012, 'Behind closed doors: the public and private nexus of district nursing, 1885-1956', Health & History: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 74-90
Madsen, W & Bell, T 2012, 'Using health promotion competencies for curriculum development in higher education', Global Health Promotion, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 43-49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975911428818
McAllister, M, Greenhill, J, Madsen, W & Godden, J 2010, 'Generating ideas for teaching nursing's history in Australia', Collegian, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 13-22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2009.06.001
McAllister, M, Madsen, W, Godden, J, Greenhill, J & Reed, R 2010, 'Teaching nursing's history: a national survey of Australian schools of nursing, 2007-2008', Nurse Education Today, pp. 370-375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2009.09.010
Kirby, S & Madsen, W 2009, 'Institutionalised isolation: tuberculosis nursing at Westwood Sanatorium, Queensland, Australia 1919-55', Nursing Inquiry, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 122-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1800.2009.00444.x (viewed 28/1/10)
Madsen, W 2009, 'All at sea: an Activity Theory analysis of first year nursing students learning to write academic essays', Studies in Learning Evaluation, Innovation and Development, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 38-50.http://sleid.cqu.edu.au/include/getdoc.php?id=801&article=228&mode=pdf (viewed 28/1/10)
Madsen, W, McAllister, M, Godden, J, Greenhill, J & Reed, R 2009, 'Nursing's orphans: How the system of nursing education in Australia is undermining professional identity', Contemporary Nurse, vol. 32, no. 1-2, pp. 9-18.http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=43985856&site=ehost-live (viewed 28/1/10)
Madsen, W 2009, 'Bottom lines: the influence of government funding on 20th century district nursing practice in Australia', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 18, no. 19, pp. 2710-2716.http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02903.x (viewed 28/1/10)
Madsen, W 2008, 'Teaching history to nurses: will this make me a better nurse?', Nurse Education Today, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 524-529.
Madsen, W 2008, 'Looking to the future: early twentieth century school nursing in Queensland', Contemporary Nurse, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 133-141.
Madsen, W & Bradshaw, J 2008, 'Boundaries and barriers: a history of district nursing management in regional Queensland', Journal of Nursing Management, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 14-20.
Madsen, W & Reid-Searl, K 2007, 'Overcoming tradition: teaching wound management into the twenty first century', Collegian, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 7-10.
Madsen, W, de Lacy, G, Alexander, S & Fry, H 2007, 'Client records: insights into clients and the services they are offered by a regional leg ulcer clinic in Queensland, Australia', Primary intention : the Australian journal of wound management, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 157-161.
Madsen, W & Bradshaw, J 2006, 'Plugging the gaps a history of domicilliary nursing', ACCNS Journal of Community Nurses, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 13-16.
Madsen, W. 2006, Badlands at the bedside: fact or fiction. Refereed paper in Transformations Journal, September 2006. http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_13/article_08.shtml
Madsen, W 2005, 'Early 20th century untrained nursing staff in the Rockhampton district: a necessary evil?', Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 307-313.
Madsen, W L 2005, ''Working from home': lying-in hospitals of Rockhampton, 1916-30', Health and History, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 49-66.
Madsen, W L 2004, 'Private duty nursing: the last days in Central Queensland', Collegian, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 34-38.
Madsen, W L 2003, 'The age of transition: nursing and caring in the nineteenth century', Journal of Australian Studies, no. 78, pp. 39-45. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2005.03492.x
Madsen, W L 2003, 'Working for herself: case study of a private duty nurse, 1965 - 1974', International History of Nursing Journal., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 23-31.
Madsen, W 2012, Showing and Growing Community Resilience in Theodore : community based participatory research project into community resilience in the wake of the 2010/11 floods project, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Qld., http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/923645
Madsen, W 2007 Nursing history : foundations of a profession, Pearson SprintPrint, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.
Madsen, W 2005 Nursing history : foundations of a profession, Pearson SprintPrint, Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.
Madsen, W. ‘Listening to communities: learning patience', Australian Universities and Communities Engagement Alliance (AUCEA), Sydney, July 2011.
Madsen, W. ‘Behind closed doors: the public and private nexus of 20th century district nursing', Public Health: Private Healers, Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Conference, Brisbane, July 2011.
Madsen, W. ‘Skilled nursing or the skills of nursing: an Australian perspective', American Association for the History of Nursing Conference, London, September 2010.
McAllister, M., Madsen, W., Godden, J., Greenhill, J., Reed, R. ‘Moving forward by looking back: Reflections on the challenges of teaching nursing's history' Australian History Association Conference, Sunshine Coast 2009.
McAllister, M., Madsen, W., Godden, J., Greenhill, J., Reed, R. 'History in motion? Tensions and possibilities of teaching the history of nursing in Australia' 3rd International In Sickness and In Health Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada, April 2009.
Madsen, W. ‘Gaining hold of the purse strings: domiciliary nursing and the influence of governments', 10th Biennial National Conference of Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, Medicine in Context conference, July 2007.
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