About Us

Background

I am a registered nurse and hold the Chair in Nursing at Barwon Health. I am also an Alfred Deakin Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Deakin University, and I am the Co-Director of the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research in the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University. As Director of the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, I provide strategic direction for the Centre, comprising more than 40 researchers undertaking research in the areas of patient safety, patient experience and workforce development.

I have the distinction of being one of only a few Australian nurses to have successfully completed a formal postdoctoral fellowship program overseas, having trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada. I received a national fellowship in knowledge translation award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and a provincial fellowship award from Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (now Alberta Innovates). I am internationally recognised for my implementation science/knowledge translation research and am an Associate Editor for the journals, ‘Implementation Science’ and ‘Implementation Science Communications’. I have attracted competitive research funding from a range of funding bodies.

With more than 200 publications, I have co-authored several book chapters and have published widely in international peer-reviewed journals. I have supervised to completion more than 10 doctoral students and numerous honours and master’s students. I have also provided mentorship for several postdoctoral fellows.

 

Research Focus

I am a PhD-prepared nurse with experience in clinical, management, education and research roles in public, private and tertiary settings.

I have built a national and international reputation and a strong record of accomplishment in the fields of healthcare quality, patient safety and implementation science/knowledge translation.

 

 Awards & Achievements

• 2021: Inducted into Sigma’s International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in recognition of lifetime achievements in and contributions to research, as well as mentoring of future nurse researchers.

  2019: Title of Alfred Deakin Professor conferred by the University Council – The title of Alfred Deakin Professor is the highest honour the University can bestow on an academic staff member.

Feature Publications

• Redley, B., Douglas, T., Hoon, L., White, K., Hutchinson, A. M. (2022). Nursing guidelines for comprehensive harm prevention strategies for adult patients in acute hospitals: An integrative review and synthesis International Journal of Nursing Studies, 127(104178). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2022.104178.
• Bucknall, T. K., Considine, J., Harvey, G., Graham I. D., Rycroft-Malone, J., Mitchell, I., Watts, J., Mohebbi, M., Mudiyanselage, S. B., Abadi, M. L. A., Hutchinson, A. M. (2022). Prioritising Responses Of Nurses To deteriorating patient Observations (PRONTO): a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a facilitation intervention on recognition and response to clinical deterioration. BMJ Quality & Safety. 31, 818-830 https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/31/11/818.
• Squires, J. E., Hutchinson, A. M., Coughlin, M., Bashir, K., Curran, J., Grimshaw, J.M., Dorrance, K., Aloisio, L., Brehaut, J., Francis, J.J., Ivers, N., Lavis, J., Michie, S., Hillmer, M., Noseworthy, T., Vine, J., Graham, I.D. (2022). Stakeholder perspectives of attributes and features of context relevant to knowledge translation in health settings: A multi-country analysis. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 11(8), 1373-1390. DOI: 10.34172/IJHPM.2021.32.
• Yuen, E., Wilson, C., Livingston, T., White, V., McLeod, V., Dufton, P., Hutchinson, A.M. (2023). Caregiver and care recipient health literacy, social support and connectedness on caregiver psychological morbidity: A cross-sectional dyad survey. Psycho-Oncology. 32(8):1257-1267. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.6177
• Squires, J.E., Graham, I.D., Santos, W.J., Hutchinson, A.M., & the ICON Team. (2023). The Implementation in CONtext (ICON) Framework: A meta-framework of context domains, attributes, and features in healthcare. BMC Health Research Policy and Systems. 21(81). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-01028-z

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