ProfessorJulie Considine

Julie's research is aimed at improving the quality and safety of patient care by optimising clinical decision-making, use of research evidence in practice through implementation science and behaviour change, and models of service delivery. She has a particular interest in patient assessment and management, recognising and responding to deteriorating patients, and effective communication. Julie is also a foundation member of Deakin University's Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research and Institute for Health Transformation.

One of Julie's flagship projects is the HIRAID® research program. HIRAID® is a nursing framework encompassing History including Infection risk, Red flags, Assessment, Interventions, Diagnostics, plan / reassess and communication. As a chief investigator, Julie led the Victorian (Eastern Health) arm of the NHMRC funded HIRAID® emergency nursing stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial (2020-2025), and has supported HIRAID® statewide implementation in South Australia (2023-24) and Tasmania (2025), regional implementation in Loddon Mallee (2025) and Hume (2025) Local Health Service Networks. She led the development of the HIRAID® education programs for HIRAID® ED and HIRAID® Aged Care and is a chief investigator on the NHMRC funded HIRAID® Inpatient stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial (2025-2030).  Internationally, Julie is also leading HIRAID® implementation in Chiang Rai, Thailand (2025), Uppsala and Ystad, Sweden (2026), and Cork, Ireland (2026).

Globally, based on productivity, Julie is ranked:
1st in the field of "rapid response" AND nursing

1st in the field of "emergency nursing"
2nd in the field of "patient safety" AND nursing
(Title, abstract, keyword search: Scopus 2025)

Julie has received over $14.5M in research and project funding including grants from MRFF (2022-2026), NHMRC Partnership Grants (2025-2030; 2024-2028; 2021-2025; 2016-2017), NHMRC Project Grant (2012-2017), and ARC Linkage (2011-2014; 2010-2011). 

Professor Considine is involved in a wide range of Departmental, Faculty and University committees:
* School of Nursing and Midwifery Research and Research Training Committee
* Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research in the Institute for Health Transformation
* Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research Executive

Projects
Master of Nursing Practice Projects
* Emergency department management of paediatric gastroenteritis
* Patient characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients receiving an urgent clinical review
* Impact of COVID-19 on perioperative transition to speciality practice program
* Analysing the clinical audit utility of a nurse-initiated extubation protocol in cardiac surgical patients
* Senior nurses' response to escalation of care for clinical deterioration in the emergency department
* Patient assessment & recognition of deteriorating patients by interventional cardiology nurses
* Incidence of clinical deterioration in ST elevation myocardial infarction patients
* Impact of pre-operative fasting on the administration of oral medications
* Recognition of deteriorating patients by Hospital in the Home nurses
* Vital sign assessment decisions by emergency nurses
* Physiological antecedents in the 24 hours preceding MET activation in ward patients
* Characteristics of family presence for deteriorating adult patients within the emergency department
* Recognition of patients experiencing clinical deterioration in the emergency department
* Clinical risk in emergency care
* Exhaled versus arterial carbon dioxide levels in emergency department patients
* The impact of the Career Development Year (CDY) on recruitment and retention of nursing staff in the specialty of emergency nursing
* Triage nurses perceptions of their educational preparation for the role of triage

Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) Projects

* Antenatal education and postnatal outcomes

* Peripheral Intravenous Catheter (PIVC) insertion policies in Emergency Departments

* Medical Emergency Team modifications in surgical patients on discharge from PACU

* Non- pharmacological nursing interventions to reduce behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
* Patient experience of faecal microbial transplant: a systematic review
* Patient experience of medical emergency team calls
* The pre-operative preparation and post-operative outcomes for older patient's undergoing emergency surgery for hip fracture
* Clinical deterioration in mental health inpatients
* Nurses' approaches to physiological observations
* A systematic review of sepsis pathways in emergency care
* Nurses' role in recognising and responding to clinical deterioration in surgical patients
* Using organisational data to explore the relationship between patient experience, staff satisfaction and direct care nursing time
* Emergency care of women with bleeding and pain in early pregnancy
* Effect of an emergency department Rapid Response System on reporting of clinical deterioration
* Renal access coordinators' impact on haemodialysis patient outcomes and associated service delivery: a systematic review
* Recognition of clinical deterioration in maternity patients
* Nurses' use and documentation of clinical data in acute care settings
* Increasing critical care nurses' diagnostic accuracy of atrial electrograms by using an innovative education program
* Presentation to emergency departments due to chemotherapy-induced complications: opportunities for improving service delivery