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I am a Registered Nurse with extensive clinical experience across diverse healthcare settings, supporting patients with a wide range of care needs.  My most recent clinical work has been in renal, providing care to patients with complex needs and preferences.

I am passionate about nursing education and currently serve as a Lecturer in Nursing. I guide and mentor future nurses, helping them develop not only essential clinical skills, holistic patient assessment, and health promotion, but also critical thinking, professional judgement, and reflective practice. I aim to foster person-centred care, compassion, respect, and effective communication, preparing students to provide high-quality, safe, and culturally responsive care across diverse healthcare settings.

Dr Rebecca Bergin is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Health Transformation, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, and School of Nursing and Midwifery at Deakin University. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of General Practice and Centre for Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne, and the Cancer Epidemiology Division at Cancer Council Victoria.

Her research aims to understand and address inequities in cancer outcomes, quality of care and patient experience by optimising pathways to cancer diagnosis and treatment. Her research interests include early cancer diagnosis, inequalities such as rural-urban, socio-economic and age-related disparities in cancer outcomes and experiences, consumer involvement, health policy and health services research.

She currently co-chairs the Primary Care Collaborative Cancer Clinical Trials Group (PC4) Prevention and Early Detection Engine Room, and is a member of the PC4 Scientific Committee. In 2020, Dr Bergin was awarded a Victorian Cancer Agency Early Career Research Fellowship to investigate the diagnostic pathways of people aged under 50 with colorectal cancer in Victoria. She is also an investigator on a MRFF Early to Mid-Career Researcher grant awarded in 2023 for the Equitable Cancer Outcomes across Rural and Remote Australia (ECORRA) Trial. 

My area of research is currently focused on the Interprofessional Collaborative Education Program (IPCEP) in diabetes and diabetic foot care. This work aims to enhance teamwork, communication, and patient self-management among healthcare professionals to reduce complications and prevent amputations in individuals with diabetes. Rooted in public health, Social Medicine, and Community Health, the research strives to improve diabetic foot care outcomes by fostering effective multidisciplinary collaboration and education.