Contact details for Associate Professor Winsome St John
Research Information and Profile
Academic Qualifications: PhD, MNS, GradDipEd, BAppSc(Nursing), RN, RM, MCHN, FRCNA, QHSN
Position: Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
Visiting Nursing Research Fellow, Community Health Nursing, Gold Coast Health Service District
Brief History:
Winsome is Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast campus. She has over 30 years of experience as a clinician, educator and researcher. She has had a range of management roles including undergraduate, clinical and postgraduate coordination, and Deputy Head of School (Gold Coast) She has practised in a range of acute and community settings including general medical/surgical nursing, coronary care, midwifery, maternal and child health, community health nursing, and community health education.
Winsome?s research interests include primary health care, community nursing, urinary incontinence, family nursing and fatherhood. She is a visiting scholar at the Gold Coast Health Services District, Community Health. Winsome has received major research grants for research into continence, fatherhood, and family nursing; and has supervised PhD and honours students to completion on a wide range of community-related topics.
Winsome has published in national and international journals, and has co-edited an Australian text Community Health Nursing: Theory Skills and Issues, published by Allen and Unwin. She is on the editorial committee and review panel of the Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal. She is also on the editorial panels of Journal of Advanced Nursing, International Nursing Review, Journal of Family Nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Journal of Wound Ostomy Continence Nursing, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Contemporary Nurse and Collegian. She has been a reviewer for the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Welcome Trust, Health Research Board, Ireland, and the Queensland Nursing Council.
Winsome coordinates the Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Primary Health Care). She has been a member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia?s Faculty of Community and Primary Health Care since its inception, and edits the Faculty?s section of Connections.
Research & Interests:
- Continence and continence services in community-dwelling populations
- Community practice for health professionals, primary health care nursing
- Family nursing, fatherhood
Methodological Interests:
- Qualitative research
- Interpretive, particularly grounded theory, phenomenology
- Focus groups
- In-depth interviews
- Qualitative data analysis
- Quantitative research
- Survey methods
Current Research:
- Managing urinary incontinence in the community
- Continence care in the community for the frail elderly
- Maternal distress
Areas of Teaching:
- Community practice for health professionals
- Working with families in illness and health
- Qualitative research