Nursing & Midwifery
Maree Bernoth
PhD
MEd(Adult Ed & Training. HonsClass1)
BHlthSc(Nursing)
RN
Position Associate Lecturer in Nursing
Campus Wagga Wagga
Office Room 113
Phone (02) 6933 2492
Fax (02) 6933 2866
EMAIL MAREE BERNOTH 
General Introduction
Despite nearly twenty years teaching nursing, I am a relative newcomer to tertiary teaching. I was in the privileged position of undertaking my three research projects while working in the clinical sector. This gives me a lived appreciation of the struggles involved in being a wife, parent, clinician and researcher. My tertiary studies commenced at CSU, as a distant student, when I was in my thirties with three small children.
The range of my clinical experience is mental health, aged care, palliative care, acute care and community nursing in diverse roles but predominantly in education. This experience has been across metropolitan and rural health which has given me an insight into the similarities and divergence in issues for nurses in both settings.
My passion for research and teaching stems from the appreciation that it is through these two areas I can make a difference. It is the transformative potential of teaching that motivates me to continue to develop my own skills so that I can better facilitate insight and learning for students.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
- PhD (Monash)
- Master of Education (Adult Education & Training. Honours, Class 1) (UNE)
- Bachelor of Health Science (Nursing) (CSU)
- Registered Gerontic Nurse
- Registered Psychiatric Nurse
Teaching Interests
- Aged Care
- Research
- Education
- Safety
- Mental Health
- Wound Care
Research Interests
- Embodied learning
- Workplace learning in aged care
- Manual handling
- Mentoring
- Safe bodies
- Discourse
Memberships
- Hunter Trainers and Assessors Network
- Board Cowra Early Childhood Services
- Geriaction (Committee Member 2005-2007)
- Wound Care Association NSW (Committee Member 2000-2002)
- Hunter Wound Interest Group (Life Membership awarded 2007)
- Aged Care Crisis Team
Professional Activities
- Part of the team which established the Hunter Wound Interest Group
- Gained RTO status for Allandale Nursing Home Cessnock and Catholic Care of the Aged, Newcastle
- In 2003 participated in the quality improvement of courses provided by the faculty of Health, Education and Professional Studies Unit, University of New England
- Organising committees for Geriaction National Conference and Hunter Wound Interest Group conferences
- 1998- 2002 worked on the Links with Workplace Project, working with University of New England to link trainers in the workplace with the tertiary education sector to provide networking and support
- Member of working party within Hunter Area Health to formulate an elder abuse policy
- Member of a working party within Hunter Area Health to formulate strategies to reduce occurrences of pressure ulcers
Career Highlights
- Awarded the Clinical Prize in my graduating year
- Having one of my students in the pilot group for the Certificate III in Aged Care named Trainee of the Year
- Observing former students continuing to learn and develop their skills and move into positions of influence in nursing
- Having the courage to commence and continue my tertiary studies
- Attracting a WorkCover Grant for my initial research project
Publications
Books
- Somerville, M. & Bernoth, M. 2001. Safe Bodies: solving a dilemma in workplace education. 9th Annual International Conference on Post Compulsory Education and Training. Brisbane, Griffith University
Books - Contributed to
- Hemi Australia. 2007. Wound Glossary. Baulkham Hills.
Books - Forthcoming
- Sheedy, M. 2010. Small Business Stressbusters. Australia. Wiley & Sons
Journals
- Walker, H. Bernoth, M & Sams, R. 1994. Aromatherapy and Dementia. Geriaction. 13:3, 37-38.
Theses
- Bernoth, M. 2009. “…and the word was made flesh.” The impact of discourses of embodiment in promoting safe manual handling practice in aged care. PhD thesis submitted January 2009. Monash University. Melbourne.
- Bernoth, M. 2001. Manual handling in aged care. The Meaning and Significance for Practitioners. Masters thesis. Armidale. University of New England.
- Bernoth, M. 1996. Manual handling practice - Achieving attitudinal change through education, submission for Graduate Diploma in Adult Education and Training. Armidale. University of New England.
Papers Presented
- 2009 Emerging Health Policy Researchers’ Conference at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy - “Bodies in Focus-Implications for policy in aged care”.
- 2005 Part Time School Based Traineeships in Aged Care - Presented at the Geriaction National Conference
- 2005 Changing Tides of Wound care: Cost Effectiveness and Negotiation/Collaboration in Policy Development - Presented to health professional in aged care
- 2004 Ethics in Wound Care - Presented at Muswellbrook Hospital
- 2000 Becoming Wound Wise in the Hunte - 1st World Wound Healing Congress, Melbourne
- 1998 Classifying Leg Ulcers - Presented at Elizabeth Gates Nursing Home
- 1997 Wound Assessment in an Aged Care Facility - Presented at Wound Care Association of NSW Annual State Conference
- 1996 Pressure Areas - Will Massage Help? - Presented at Advanced Wound Care Preceptorial
- 1995 Engendering Enquiry in a Stigmatised Environment - Presented at Hunter Nurses Symposium