Julie Considine, AO, RN, BN, PhD, of Australia
Nursing Education Award
Julie Considine, AO, RN, BN, PhD
Recognizes a nurse who has made significant contributions to the education of colleagues, nursing students, EMS personnel, patients, families or the community through the publication of articles, formal or informal courses or the development of a specific emergency nursing program or curriculum.
Julie Considine is a renowned emergency nursing educator who pioneered Australia’s first transition to specialty practice program in emergency nursing in 2000, a program now used in nearly all Australian emergency departments. Considine redesigned the postgraduate specialist emergency nursing curriculum for a major Australian University in 2007 and since then has educated more than 2,000 emergency nurses at graduate certificate level.
She has obtained the U.S. equivalent of nearly $7 million in research and project funding, which supported work on the effect of educational interventions on accuracy of nurse-initiated x-rays, use of educational strategies to effect behavior change and other endeavors.
Considine recently developed educational approaches for nurse-led cluster randomized controlled trials of an evidence-informed patient assessment framework for 31 emergency departments and nurse-led protocols for initiating emergency care in 30 EDs.
She has published more than 260 peer-reviewed papers and is senior editor of Australasian Emergency Care.
Considine earned her PhD at the Deakin University in Melbourne and is the current professor and chair in nursing (Eastern Health) at Deakin. Her many awards and recognitions include the Julie Finucane Medal for Leadership in Emergency Nursing, which is the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia’s highest honor.