Associate ProfessorBernice Redley

My research focus is quality and safety of patient care in acute and hospital
settings. Specific research interests include interprofessional clinical
communication and handover; care of older persons in acute settings;
performance of frontline interprofessional health care teams; patient
participation in the health care delivery; and supporting sustainable changes
in day to day clinical practices and hospital activities. My research to date
has examined patient and family needs in critical illness, interprofessional
teamwork and handover communication in complex clinical settings (recovery
rooms and emergency departments), redesign models of care in emergency
department and acute medicine, clinical engagement in service improvement and
research, a model for interprofessional teamwork for older person care,
preventing harms of hospitalisation for the older person in acute care,
development and application of health policy, and innovations in models of
care to deliver increased quality and safety and a high performing health
system.

Knowledge Areas
* Interprofessional clinical communication for safe transitions in care, within and between teams, in complex settings (e.g. ward rounds, clinical handover);
* Performance of multidisciplinary front line clinical teams for patient safety and to enhance care delivery (e.g. preventing harms during acute hospitalisation)
* Patient and family experiences, engagement and participation to ensure safe high quality healthcare in acute settings
* Information technology solutions to support communication and acute care delivery.

Projects
Current and past research projects include:
* 2019-20. Implementing best evidence for nurse led strategies prevent harms common to older people in acute hospitals. NHMRC Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship.
* 2019. Preventing harm to older people in acute hospitals: supporting quality in complex nursing work. Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy Limited Mona Menzies Post-Doctoral Research Grant.
* 2018-19. Measuring Nurse Motivation, Engagement and Well-being in the Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record. Mentor for R. Jedwab for Emerging Researcher Fellowship, Monash Health.
* 2018-19. Work readiness of Graduate Nurses and Midwives undertaking a Transition to Practice Program. Mentor for S. Rogers for Emerging Researcher Fellowship, Monash Health.
* 2018-19. Mapping and survey regarding dementia training and support resources in the Victorian public sector residential aged care sector. Hutchinson, A. Redley, B. Rawson, H.
* 2017-2020. Supporting patient activation and participation through multimedia: The MyStay project.
* 2016-17. Reducing harm, in the acute hospital setting, to people displaying symptoms associated with a neurocognitive disorder. Funded by Dementia Collaborative Research Centers Grants.
* 2016. Design Matters for Hospital Team based Patient Care in Emergency Departments. The University of Melbourne, Health Systems and Workforce Unit, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Deakin University, School of Nursing and Midwifery. Funded by Commonwealth Department of Industry, Research Connections Grant and Hassell.
* 2015-16. Risk screening and assessment for avoiding preventable harm in older people in hospital. Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria
* 2014-15. Patient and companion experience of participation in interprofessional rounds on acute inpatient medical wards. Deakin University Centre for Quality and Safety Research.
* 2014-15. A feasibility assessment for an intelligent care support tool for acute healthcare delivery in the private healthcare context. Epworth Research Institute Grants.
* 2014-15. Nursing roles and strategies in end-of-life decision making involving older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds admitted to Victorian hospitals for end-of-life care. Funded by Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy Limited, Ella Lowe Grant.
* 2012-14 Tools to evaluate Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR) in acute care: A pilot in general medicine. Deakin University Centre for Quality and Safety Research.
* 2012-15. Smartward: evaluating the development and implementation of smart technology an novel CDSS. Funded by SmartWard Pty. Ltd.