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Annette works with the occupational therapy programme, teaching and coordinating mostly second year students. Her previous involvement at CSU involved casual teaching and marking.

Annette's clinical experience has been varied, and includes service provision across the lifespan (from young children to the aged) in multiple settings (hospital to home). Predominantly, Annette has worked in rural areas and has an interest in working with people within their natural contexts e.g. home, school, etc.

Annette completed her Master of Occupational Therapy degree at James Cook University , in 2005. Ongoing interests which emerged from topics investigated include the experience of occupational therapy service provision by those living in rural / isolated areas, and also the value of a range of educational methodologies to student learning, particularly in the allied health fields.

Roles

• Lecturer Occupational Therapy (Part time)

Teaching

Involved in the process of developing the current new curriculum for occupational therapy (being implemented over last 4 years); have converted one face-to-face core occupational therapy subject into distance mode subject when working at another university; have redesigned previous individual subjects into new year long subject

Subject Delivery

• OCC201 (8 x 2hr lectures);
• OCC300 (4 x 2hr tutorials);
• OCC304 (subject coordination and all teaching minus 4 guest lectures)

Innovations in Teaching

Designing a PBL stream to assist in development of professional identity for occupational therapy students;

Have been involved in establishing interdisciplinary clinic between occupational therapy and podiatry students in the Allied Health Clinic;

Development of a dynamic workbook assignment for occupational therapy students to assist them to develop skills in clinical reasoning and clinical assessment. Workbook included elements such as paper-based case scenarios which were analysed using frames of reference being taught, face-to-face standardised interviews (on and off campus) with guest clients and accompanying clinical assessment reports being written using the authentic data collected, practice using occupational therapy assessment tools which formed the basis of written recommendations for further assessment for both paper-based case scenarios and guest clients, using students' personal occupations and experiences as a mechanism for practicing analysis using occupational models and frames of reference, reflections on use of clinical reasoning when completing the above activities.

Research

Current Research Projects

• PhD project  
  Narratives of lived experiences of inpatient rehabilitation  
• Narelle Patton, Caroline Robinson, Kristy Robson and self   
  Interprofessional collaboration in clinical practice: exploring the experience of undergraduate physiotherapy, podiatry and occupational therapy students   
  
  Funding Body: CSU

Professional & Community Engagement

As a consequence of clinical role, assist in providing in-services to clinicians, provide them with access to view recently published assessments and resources relevant to practice, keep them up to date which developments in the health education sector, etc. Also provide supervision for clinicians as requested.

Have been involved as a mentor for both occupational therapists and other health professionals as part of Rural Allied Health practitioner mentorship program. 

Roles 

• Engage in clinical practice in discipline
• Mentor