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

• Nursing (1110)
• Public Health and Health Services (1117)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Health and Support Services (9202)
• Public Health (9204)

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

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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.

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

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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

• 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)
• Features of Primary Health Care Services in Remote Indigenous Communities that Contribute to Hospital Avoidance for Ambulatory Sensitive Chronic Conditions (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

Completed

• Standardised patient teaching strategies in an undergraduate pharmacy curriculum: a case study (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Consumers and the social world of health care: outsiders in the expert's world: a grounded theory study (2015, 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)
• Psychosocial and environmental distress resulting from a volcanic eruption: a mixed methods study (2015, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• The implications of male circumcision practices for women in Papua New Guinea, including for HIV prevention (2015, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• New graduate registered nurse practice readiness for Australian healthcare contexts: a collective instrumental case study (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Genomics in nursing practice in Australia: a critical realist case study (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Reconciling professional identity: a grounded theory study of nurse academics' role modelling (2016, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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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

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