Dr Tanya Langtree ~ Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery

Dr Tanya Langtree is an experienced academic who has taught and coordinated a broad range of nursing subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Tanya is also a registered nurse whose specialties include neurosciences and critical care nursing. She is also a co-author of a well regarded Australian foundational nursing textbook.  

Tanya was awarded her PhD cum laude in 2020. Her PhD study, Notes on pre Nightingale Nursing: What It Was and What It Was Not, examined pre-professionalised nursing praxis using postmodernist historical methods. The findings of this study reconceptualised pre-Nightingale nursing practice and were used to reframe popular metanarratives about past and contemporary nursing practice.

Tanya is a peer reviewer for a number of international refereed journals, nursing textbooks and learning resources.

Teaching

• NS1881: Nursing Practice 1 (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• NS5352: Qualitative Research in Healthcare (Level 5; ONL)

Interests

Professional

• Professional issues; nursing identity; fundamentals of nursing; missed nursing care

Research

• History of nursing; missed nursing care; simulation methodologies

Teaching

• Acute and critical care; advanced assessment; simulation; qualitative research; fundamentals of nursing

Research Disciplines

• Nursing (4205)

Awards

• 2008 - University Medal for Masters by Coursework (JCU)
• 2004 - Australian College of Critical Care Nurses, North Queensland Sub-Branch Prize (JCU)
• 2003 - The Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation Scholarship
• 2002 to 2003 - Dianne Campbell Prize for Outstanding Clinical Practice (UniMelb)
• 2000 - Human Bioscience Prize (JCU)
• 2000 - Royal College of Nursing Australia High Achiever Award
• 2000 - Prize in Nursing Excellence (JCU)
• 1999 - Townsville District Health Foundation Prize - Year 2 (JCU)
• 1998 - Townsville District Health Foundation Prize - Year 1 (JCU)
• 1998 - Masonic Prize for Exemplary Achievement in the Clinical Practice of Nursing Science (JCU)
• 1995 to 1996 - Scartwater Trust Scholarship

Memberships

• Member, Canadian Association for the History of Nursing
• Member, Australasian Neuroscience Nurses’ Association/World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses
• Faculty, National Health Education and Training in Simulation (NHET-Sim)
• Secretary, Queensland Branch, Australian College of Critical Care Nurses
• Member, American Association for the History of Nursing
• Member, International Philosophy of Nursing Society
• Member, Australian College of Nursing

Other

• National Events Committee Member, Australian College of Critical Care Nurses
• Alumni, Australian Simulation Education and Technician Training (AusSETT)

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

• Langtree T, Birks M and Biedermann N (2020) Risky business? Addressing the challenges of historical methods in the ‘digital age’. Collegian, 27 (6), pp. 589-594, DOI:10.1016/j.colegn.2020.06.009.
• Langtree T, Birks M and Biedermann N (2020) “What a nurse suffers”: care left undone in seventeenth -century Madrid. Nursing philosophy, 21 (1), Article: e12274, DOI:10.1111/nup.12274.
• Langtree T, Birks M and Biedermann N (2019) Separating "fact" from fiction: strategies to improve rigour in historical research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20 (2), Article: 26, DOI:10.17169/fqs-20.2.3196.
• Mills J, West C, Langtree T, Usher K, Henry R, Chamberlain-Salaun J and Mason M (2014) 'Putting it together': unfolding case studies and high-fidelity simulation in the first-year of an undergraduate nursing curriculum. Nurse Education in Practice, 14 (1), pp. 12-17, DOI:10.1016/j.nepr.2013.06.003.

Other research outputs

• Langtree T (2021) Loss, grieving and death. In: Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing. Pearson, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1101-1124
• Langtree T (2021) Sexuality. In: Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing. Pearson, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1035-1058
• Langtree T (2021) Self-concept. In: Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing. Pearson, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1019-1034
• Langtree T (2021) Promoting family health. In: Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing. Pearson, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 453-466
• Berman A, Frandsen G, Snyder S, Levett-Jones T, Burston A, Dwyer T, Hales M, Harvey N, Langtree T, Moxham L, Reid-searl K, Rolf F and Stanley D (2020) Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing. Pearson Australia, Melbourne, Australia
• Langtree T (2020) Pain management, comfort and sleep. In: Fundamentals of Nursing: Australian and NZ edition. Cengage, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 868-910
• Langtree T (2019) 'Three fingers are applied to the artery': pulse assessment in late-eighteenth century Europe. [Presented at the 36th Annual AAHN Nursing & Healthcare History Conference]. In: 36th Annual American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) Nursing and Healthcare History Conference, 19-21 September 2019, Dallas, TX, USA
• Langtree T (2018) Instruccion de enfermeros (Instructions for nurses): a precursor to modern nursing? [Presented at Sigma Theta Tau International's 29th International Nursing Research Congress]. 19-23 July 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 36+ research outputs authored by Dr Tanya Langtree from 2011 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

• A history of nursing in North Queensland from 1910-1925. (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Nursing Experiences in Papua New Guinea in World War II: Missing profiles in nursing history (PhD , Secondary Advisor)

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