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About

One of Australia’s foremost primary health care academics with extensive experience leading and managing teams in both government and tertiary sectors. With a research portfolio focused on rural health, health workforce, health system strengthening and nursing education, Professor Mills has a Scopus H-index of 21, a score judged as excellent in comparison to her peers. Since 2006 has been the recipient of over $3.4 million in research and consultancy income including an NHMRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Primary Health Care. An internationally recognised grounded theorist, in the past decade wrote the popular text, Grounded Theory: a practical guide, which has furthered the development of fundamental grounded theory methods of theoretical coding and storyline analysis. The original text has over 1700 citations and has been reprinted several times since its publication in 2011. A second edition was released in February 2015. A recipient of an Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Learning and Teaching in the area of teaching research. Professor Mills also has a reputation as an outstanding higher degree research supervisor across a number of disciplines including public health, dentistry, nursing, midwifery, pharmacy, allied health and social work.

Interests

Research

Grounded theory, Qualitative methodologies, Teaching and learning in the tertiary setting, Public health issues including tropical disease prevention, Primary health care, General practice nursing, Health workforce: early career registered nurses

Teaching

Research methodology and methods, Practice development

Experience

2020 to present - Dean, Head La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University (Bendigo, Victoria)
2018 to present - Leading Conflict Resolution in the Workplace, Harvard University (Continuing Professional Development Programs)
2017 to 2020 - Pro Vice Chancellor, College of Health, Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand)
2016 - Professor of Clinical Sciences (Nursing), Head of Nursing, RMIT (Bundoora Campus)
2014 to 2015 - Deputy Dean Graduate Research School, James Cook University (Cairns Campus)
2014 - Women Transforming Leadership Program, University of Oxford (Said Business School)
2012 to 2013 - Associate Dean Research, James Cook University (Faculty of Medicine, Health & Molecular Sciences)
2009 to 2011 - Deputy Head of School Nursing, Midwifery & Nutrition, James Cook University (Cairns Campus & Thursday Island Study Centre)
2007 to 2009 - Senior Research Fellow, Monash University (School of Nursing and Midwifery Gippsland Campus)
1999 to 2000 - Research Fellow, University of Tasmania (University Department of Rural Health)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Awards

2017 - Imperial College London, MBA, IBM Innovation Project Prize
2014 - Golden Key Honour Society Honorary Member
2013 - Australian College of Nursing’s nominee for the International Council of Nursing’s Florence Nightingale International Foundation Achievement Award
2013 - James Cook University Mid-Career Researcher Leadership Award
2012 - Australian Award for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
2012 - James Cook University Citation for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
2004 - Royal Australian College of Nursing, Australia: Florence Nightingale Award for Post-doctoral Research
2019 - JCU Advisory Team of the Year Award

Fellowships

2006 - National Health and Medical Research Primary Health Care Fellowship

Publications

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

Chamberlain-Salaun J, Usher K and Mills J (2020) Outsiders in the experts' world: a grounded theory study of consumers and the social world of health care. SAGE Open, 10 (1), DOI:10.1177/2158244020903423.
Harrison H, Birks M, Franklin R and Mills J (2020) An assessment continuum: how healthcare professionals define and determine practice readiness of newly graduated registered nurses. Collegian, 27, pp. 198-206, DOI:10.1016/j.colegn.2019.07.003.
Harrison H, Birks M, Franklin R and Mills J (2020) Fostering graduate nurse practice readiness in context. Collegian, 27 (1), pp. 115-124, DOI:10.1016/j.colegn.2019.07.006.
O'Loughlin M, Mills J, McDermott R and Harriss L (in press) Exploring the measure of potentially avoidable general practitioner-type presentations to the emergency department in regional Queensland using linked, patient-perspective data. Australian Health Review, (), DOI:10.1071/AH19210.
Wright H, Birks M, Zhao L and Mills J (in press) Genomics in oncology nursing practice in Australia. Collegian, , DOI:10.1016/j.colegn.2019.11.008.
O'Loughlin M, Harriss L, Thompson F, McDermott R and Mills J (2019) Exploring factors that influence adult presentation to an emergency department in regional Queensland: a linked, cross‐sectional, patient perspective study. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31 (3), pp. 67-75, DOI:10.1111/1742-6723.13094.
Wright H, Zhao L, Birks M and Mills J (2019) Genomic literacy of registered nurses and midwives in Australia: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51 (1), pp. 40-49, DOI:10.1111/jnu.12440.
Alele F, Callander E, Emeto T, Mills J and Watt K (2018) Socio‐economic composition of low‐acuity paediatric presentation at a regional hospital emergency department. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 54 (12), pp. 1341-1347, DOI:10.1111/jpc.14079.
Chun Tie Y, Birks M and Mills J (2018) The experience of internationally qualified registered nurses working in the Australian healthcare system: an integrative literature review. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 29 (3), pp. 274-284, DOI:10.1177/1043659617723075.
Ligita T, Wicking K, Harvey N and Mills J (2018) The profile of diabetes healthcare professionals in Indonesia: a scoping review. International Nursing Review, 65 (3), pp. 349-360, DOI:10.1111/inr.12418.
Usher K, Woods C, Brown J, Power T, Lea J, Hutchinson M, Mather C, Miller A, Saunders A, Mills J, Zhao L, Yates K, Bodak M, Southern J and Jackson D (2018) Australian nursing students' knowledge and attitudes towards pressure injury prevention: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 81, pp. 14-20, DOI:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2018.01.015.
Wright H, Zhao L, Birks M and Mills J (2018) Nurses’ competence in genetics: an integrative review. Nursing and Health Sciences, 20 (2), pp. 142-153, DOI:10.1111/nhs.12401.

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 191+ research outputs authored by Prof Jane Mills from 2005 onwards.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

Lowitja Institute-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC - Research Activity Funding

Sustainable implementation of Indigenous early childhood family support programs that work: a Family Wellbeing (FWB) Case-Study

Indicative Funding: $503,553 over 3 years
Summary: The aim of the project is to define and develop funding models and mechanisms that can support FWB empowerment program integration and implementation within early childhood family support programs. The FWB program attends to the social and emotional wellbeing needs of the family and in this instance will integrate FWB at different levels to enhance broader community capacity to create supportive environments for children to thrive. A whole of community approach is a defining feature of this project which will bring together Indigenous early childhood family support service providers, policy makers and researchers through collaborative partnerships. Improving the health and wellbeing of children is vital to ensuring that good health continues into adulthood which has implications for positive social, cultural, educational and economic outcomes.
Investigators: Yvonne Cadet-James, Komla Tsey, Irina Kinchin, Roxanne Bainbridge, Claire Campbell, Jane Mills and Janya McCalman in collaboration with Catherine Brown, H Klieve, Mary Whiteside and Louis McPherson (Indigenous Education & Research Centre, College of Arts, Society & Education, College of Public Health, Medical & Vet Sciences, College of Healthcare Sciences, Griffith University and La Trobe University)
Keywords: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; Family Wellbeing; Early Childhood

Supervision

Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

Features of Primary Health Care Services in Remote Indigenous Communities that Contribute to Hospital Avoidance for Ambulatory Sensitive Chronic Conditions (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Health Care Homes in Cairns: a mixed methods study exploring the experience of adults living with chronic conditions to inform the new model of primary health care (PhD , Advisor Mentor)

Completed

Standardised patient teaching strategies in an undergraduate pharmacy curriculum: a case study (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Reconciling professional identity: a grounded theory study of nurse academics' role modelling (2016, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Too close to home: the lived experiences of rural Queensland nurses who have cared for people with cancer who have died (2016, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Generalist registered nurses caring for mental health clients in remote areas of Australia: an interpretive case study (2016, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Genomics in nursing practice in Australia: a critical realist case study (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
New graduate registered nurse practice readiness for Australian healthcare contexts: a collective instrumental case study (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)

Data

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Mills, J. (2014) Patients' Psychological and Practical Reasons for Attending the Cairns Hospital Emergency Department: A Mixed Methods Study (P3ED Study) . James Cook University

Collaboration

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