Dr Tanya Langtree ~ Senior Lecturer

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.

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)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• health (2099)
• Provision of health and support services (2003)

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

• Richardson C, Wicking K, Biedermann N and Langtree T (in press) Coaching in nursing: An integrative literature review. Nursing Open,
• Langtree T (2022) Being good, doing good, making others look good: Reconceptualising nineteenth-century nursing practice. Women's Writing, 29 (4). pp. 583-599
• 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
• Langtree T, Birks M and Biedermann N (2020) “What a nurse suffers”: care left undone in seventeenth -century Madrid. Nursing philosophy, 21 (1).
• 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).
• 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

Other research outputs

• Langtree T (2022) Doing History: Introducing historical research methods. [Presented webinar for the Autsralian College of Nursing]. In: Doing History: Introducing historical research methods, 28 June 2022, Online Webinar
• Langtree T (2022) Almond flour, vinegar and holding one’s breath: Personal protective measures in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century nursing. The Hive, 38 (Winter). pp. 42-43
• Langtree T and Wood E (2022) Documentation in Nursing and Midwifery: Australian edition. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
• Langtree T (2022) Postmodernism. In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design. SAGE, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, pp. 1222-1223
• Langtree T (2021) "Fear causes many diseases": a review of infection prevention and control measures in pre-Nightingale nursing. [Presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Conference]. In: ANZSHM 2021: Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine Conference, 1-4 December 2021, Virtual
• Langtree T (2021) "Remove all impurities": a review of infection prevention and control measures in pre-Nightingale nursing. Abstracts from the Workshop for the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics. In: Workshop for the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics: Nursing Care in Times of Epidemics and Pandemics – historical and ethical issues, 3-4 September 2021, Online

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 44+ 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

• Coaching of Clinical Nurses in a Mental Health Setting: A Case Study (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• A history of nursing in North Queensland from 1910-1925. (Masters , Secondary Advisor)
• Strategies to improve Health Literacy among Indigenous Australians in North West Queendland: A mixed method study (PhD , Primary Advisor)

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