Desley Hegney

Professor Desley Hegney is a Professor of Nursing at the Research Division, Central Queensland University, Brisbane Campus She was the inaugural President of the Association for Australian Rural Nurses and was the inaugural Editor of the Australian Journal of Rural Health (1992 - 2002). Her research has concentrated on nursing workforce issues in primary health care including the first published research on the role and function of the rural nurse in Australia. She is extensively published in rural nursing workforce issues, compassion fatigue and resilience. She has also undertaken research into the role of the registered and enrolled nurse employed in general practice.

Other research into health service delivery models in rural Australia have included the effectiveness of a community health nurse in the ED to prevent re-presentations of elderly patients; infant feeding support services in rural Queensland; the effectiveness of an outreach palliative care service in rural Queensland; and the use of a triage tool to standardise triage assessment by nurses in the ED.

Education

• Southern Cross University (1992 — 1997)
• Southern Cross University (1992 — 1997)

Companies

• Adjunct Professor Hegney Consulting (2015)
• Professorial research fellow Central queensland university (2016 — 2020)
• Professor of Nursing Curtin University (2012 — 2014)
• Head of Discipline (nursing), Professor of Nursing University of Western Australia (2011 — 2012)
• Director of Research, Professor of Nursing National University of Singapore (2009 — 2011)
• Director, Research and Practice Development Centre, Professor of Nursing The University of Queensland (2006 — 2009)
• Director, Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health, Professor of Nursing The University of Southern Queensland and the University of Queensland (2003 — 2006)
• Professor of Nursing The University of Southern Queensland (1999 — 2003)

Skills

• Science
• Program Development
• E-Learning

Other

Policy, Public Speaking, Adult Education, Distance Learning, Statistics, Healthcare, Healthcare Management, Academic Writing, Public Health, Program Evaluation, Teaching, Clinical Research, Research Design, Courses, Theory, Lecturing, University Teaching, Qualitative Research, Research, Higher Education, Nursing