Ms Deborah Austen School of Nursing and Midwifery

I've been working for CQUniversity for many years as a casual marker, project officer and lecturer within the School of Nursing & Midwifery. My current role is Director of the Centre for Professional Health Education, coordinating post graduate courses and modules and developing plans for the months and years to come as the commercial arm of the School.

My clinical background is critical care nursing, with many years at Rockhampton Hospital ICU and ten of those as the Rockhampton Organ & Tissue Donation Coordinator. I have always loved clinical teaching and the progression to the higher education sector has been very rewarding. 

I am a Registered Nurse and qualified Personal Trainer and have been living and working in this region for many years.

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ACCCN Australian College of Critical Care Nurses

IHSSR Institute of Health and Social Science Research

LTERC Learning and Teaching Education Resource Centre

Health CRN

Queensland Justices Association

As Director of CPHE I operate the commercial arm of the School of Nursing & Midwifery. Our team provides online education as short courses for health professionals which attract CPD points. We run industry workshops and offer Queensland's only Nursing Re Entry Nursing Course.

e-Learning Environments, Simulation, Resuscitation, Re-Entry Nursing, Post Grad Education, e-Portfolio, Professional Development, OOC’s, Critical Care, Organ & Tissue Donation

We are currently undergoing a project in conjunction with Western Australia Department of Health to rewrite their Recognition and Response to Clinical Deterioration Manual.

Editing chapter of textbook Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing.

Co Author Chapter on Organ Donation, Australian Critical Care

Currently editing chapter in Foundations of Nursing

1997                            ANZICS Intensive Care Conference, Hobart (Poster presentation)

Rockhampton District Health Service ‘Nurses as change Agents Symposium’, (Establishing a Regional Introduction to Critical Care Nursing Course in Rockhampton).

2000                            Australian Transplant Nurses Association State Conference, (Implementation of the Link Nurse Program in Queensland).

2001                            Capricornia Scientific and Medical Conference, Rydges Yeppoon, (Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease).

2004                            Australian Transplant Nurses Association State Conference, (The Link Nurse Phenomenon in Queensland).

2005                            5th Annual Queensland Health Conference, Brisbane, November (Queensland’s Innovative Interdisciplinary Clinical Organ & Tissue Donation Network).

2007                            8th Annual Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, 4th – 5th May, (Engaging Critical Care Nurses in the Organ Donation Process).

2008 Improving Organ and Tissue Donation Rates in Australia (Poster presentation), WONCA 2008 Asia Pacific Regional Conference, 2nd – 5th October 2008,Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne.

2009                            Queensland Health Passionate about Practice Conference, (GP Education Project Outcomes), Brisbane.

Acute Care

Nursing Re Entry

Simulation in Health Care

Clinical Deterioration

Family Witnessed Resuscitation