Associate ProfessorPatricia Nicholson

'Capturing the web generation'

The Age Saturday July 23, 2011

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group Ltd (VPNG)

Australian College of Operating Room Nurses (ACORN)

2016 Australian College of Operating Room Nurses Excellence in Perioperative Nursing

2014 Australian College of Operating Room Nurses Judith Cornell Orator

2010 Judith Bridges Johnson & Johnson Scholarship

2010 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship Award, The University of Melbourne

2009 ANF (Victorian Branch) Elizabeth Hulme Special Interest Group Scholarship

2009 Special Scholarship: School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne

2006 John and Elizabeth Robertson Prize (The most meritorious Minor Thesis in the Master of Education)

Keynote Address / Invited Speaker

When words are not enough: Helping other deal with death and dying. VPNG State Conference, Melbourne 16 - 17 August, 2019.

Pressure injuries: Avoidable or unavoidable? Improved outcomes for surgical patients. VPNG State Conference, Melbourne 14 August, 2018.

Safe patient positioning in the perioperative environment. ACORN Conference Master Class. ACORN 18th National Conference, Adelaide, 23 26 May, 2018.

A cohort study identifying risk factors associated with pressure injuries in surgical patients. Theatre Manager and Educator Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, 3 May 2018.

Daring greatly! Having the courage to transform the patients experience in the operating suite. NSW OTA, 2016.

Sustainable perioperative practices! Reducing, reusing or recycling what is the evidence? Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Nurses Group National Conference, 2016.

Medical waste: Reducing, reusing and recycling. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, 20 March, 2015.

Are outliers the key to success? 14th Australian College of Operating Room Nurses National Conference Judith Cornell Oration, 2014.

International Conferences

Medication safety in the perioperative period. The impact of perioperative factors on medication compliance for chronic conditions and postoperative complications, and the importance of clinical handover.

EORNA Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 -19 May 2019.