Prof Pauline Calleja ~ Dean, College of Healthcare Sciences

Professor Pauline Calleja is Dean for the College of Healthcare Sciences at JCU. In this role Pauline provides strategic leadership and operational management of the College which includes seven healthcare disciplines. Pauline is a member of the International Consortium of Organisational Resilience, focusing mainly on graduate transition to practice, staff wellbeing and positive psychology interventions. Pauline serves as an executive member of the Association of Queensland Nursing and Midwifery Leaders.

Pauline has an extensive and varied clinical background but counts her clinical specialty as emergency nursing and has worked in a number of Australian Emergency Departments as well as in North America. She has been a Director of Nursing at a multipurpose health service rural health hub, and as a single nurse at a remote area primary health centre. Her other clinical areas of experience include ophthalmic, perioperative, general practice, rural and remote, immunisation programs, and community nursing including hospital in the home. Her teaching area of expertise is broad as Pauline has taught in all undergraduate nursing areas, post graduate emergency nursing, post graduate clinical teaching, health assessment and physical examination, teaching and learning, diploma of nursing and Indigenous Health Worker programs. She has also taught internationally in Viet Nam to improve capacity for nurses to undertake clinical teaching.

Pauline is an active researcher whose focus is to improve rural and remote communities’ local access to high quality healthcare. Pauline’s research expertise is in mixed methods and qualitative design projects that encompass clinical intervention, practice improvement, teaching and learning in clinical environments and simulation settings. Pauline has taught in a number of tertiary teaching environments including QUT, Griffith University, USC, CQU, JCU and also at two Queensland TAFEs.

Research Disciplines

• Nursing (4205)
• Health services and systems (4203)
• Curriculum and pedagogy (3901)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Provision of health and support services (2003)
• Learner and learning (1601)
• Clinical health (2001)

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

• Brown J, Capper T, Hegney D, Donovan H, Williamson M, Calleja P, Solomans T and Wilson S (in press) Individual and environmental factors that influence longevity of newcomers to nursing and midwifery: a scoping review. JBI Evidence Synthesis,
• Nijkamp N, Calleja P and Sahay A (2024) Transition support arrangements to support new graduate & novice nurses entry to perioperative nursing: a scoping review. Heliyon, 10.
• Ford A, Heidke P, Kurup C, Wirihana L, Kroll J and Calleja P (2023) Factors influencing Australian nursing and midwifery students COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Vaccine: X, 14.
• O'Neill K, Powell M, Lovell T, Brown D, Walsham J, Calleja P, Nielsen S and Mitchell M (2023) Improving the handover of complex trauma patients by implementing a standardised process. Australian Critical Care, 36 (5). pp. 799-805
• Brown J, Slatyer S, Jakimowicz S, Maben J, Calleja P, Donovan H, Cusack L, Cameron D, Cope V, Levett-Jones T, Williamson M, Klockner K, Walsh A, Arnold-Chamney M, Hollingdrake O, Thoms D and Duggan R (2022) Coping with COVID-19. Work life experiences of nursing, midwifery and paramedic academics: An international interview study. Nurse Education Today, 119.
• Calleja P, Wilkes S, Spencer M and Woodbridge S (2022) Telehealth use in rural and remote health practitioner education: an integrative review. Rural and Remote Health, 22 (1).
• Schults J, Calleja P, Slaughter E, Paterson R, Rickard C, Booker C, Marsh N, Fenn M, Kelly J, Snelling P, Byrnes J, Keijzers G and Cooke M (2022) Peripheral intravenous catheter insertion and use of ultrasound in patients with difficult intravenous access: Australian patient and practitioner perspectives to inform future implementation strategies. PLoS ONE, 17 (6).
• Coyne E, Calleja P, Forster E and Lin F (2021) A review of virtual-simulation for assessing healthcare students' clinical competency. Nurse Education Today, 96.
• Rathnayake S, Moyle W, Jones C and Calleja P (2021) Co-design of an mHealth application for family caregivers of people with dementia to address functional disability care needs. Informatics for Health and Social Care, 46 (1).
• Calleja P, Aitken L and Cooke M (2020) Strategies to Improve Information Transfer for Multitrauma Patients. Clinical Nursing Research, 29 (6).
• Delaney D, Stewart H, Cameron R, Cardell E, Carruthers S, Love A, Pearson A and Calleja P (2020) Supporting the development of program leaders in higher education: An action research case study. Australian Journal of Career Development, 29 (3). pp. 205-217
• Morgan J and Calleja P (2020) Emergency trauma care in rural and remote settings: Challenges and patient outcomes. International Emergency Nursing, 51.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 30+ research outputs authored by Prof Pauline Calleja from 2005 onwards.

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