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Researching better care
Cardiovascular disease, which kills one Australian woman in three, is being researched by St Vincent’s/ACU National Centre for Nursing Research Director, Professor Linda Worrall-Carter.
She leads a team of researchers from ACU National and St Vincent’s public hospital in Melbourne. Professor Worrall-Carter has highlighted early results from collaborative research undertaken with the Heart Foundation. These results point to a lack of awareness that women and men can experience different heart attack symptoms.
Many women do not experience severe central chest pain, but instead experience pain in the jaw or back, nausea or dizziness, or a combination of these symptoms.
Based at the hospital, the centre is conducting clinical nursing research in critical care and innovative models of care, as well as cardiovascular disease.
The research program is providing higher education and career paths for nursing and other allied health professionals. Also, educating the public, and developing better health care initiatives for the prevention and treatment of disease.
Researchers at the centre are involved in many collaborative partnerships with national and international colleagues from across ACU National, Curtin and Deakin universities in Australia. This is in addition to the universities of Leicester, Kentucky and Pennsylvania internationally.
The research partnership model allows supervision by senior clinical staff, with access to a clinical research fellowship program and a thesis-writing support group, as well as a combined honours program for nursing students.
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