Nursing & Midwifery
Dr Andrew Crowther
RN
RMN
CertEd
MA
PhD
Position Associate Head of School
Campus Albury, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange, Wagga Wagga
Office A109
Phone (02) 6365 7505
Fax (02) 6365 7568
EMAIL DR ANDREW CROWTHER 
General Introduction
I trained as a General and Psychiatric Nurse in the UK, before undertaking my teaching certificate and then a 'night school' MA in State, Policy and Social Change, with a major in Ethnic Minorities and Mental Health Care. My PhD, at La Trobe University in Victoria, is an examination of mental hospital administration and the decline of moral therapy as the treatment of choice in lunatic asylums.
Formally, I was the Assistant Director of Nursing, and Practice Development Advisor at a large mental hospital in another state of Australia. I have taught at the University of South Australia and at La Trobe, and for around ten years in the hospital sector. I also have experience in a community mental health team in a rural and remote setting in South Australia, as well as in the usual range of in-patient settings. I am now Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing here at CSU, Orange campus and the Associate Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
- Winner of Faculty of Science Award for Academic Excellence (Teaching) 2009.
- Nominated for Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Reaching Excellence 2009
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
- Registered Psychiatric Nurse
- Certificate in Education (Further Education)
- Registered Nurse Teacher
- Master of Arts
- Doctor of Philosophy
Teaching Interests
- Course Coordinator - Graduate Certificate in Rural Mental Health Nursing
- Mental Health Nursing
- Management, clinical decision making
Research Interests
- Ethical decision making by health professionals
- Historical aspects of mental health nursing
- Ageing and depression
- Cultural issues in mental health
- Generational aspects of mental health workforce development
- Rural mental health
- History of mental health service provision in Australia
Memberships
- ANZAME: Association for Health Professional Education
- Australian College of Mental Health Nurses
Professional Activities
- Mental Health Nurses Advisory Group (MHNAG)
Publications
- Andrew Crowther and Michael Kemp; Generational attitudes of mental health nurses. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2009, 17, 97-101
- Crowther, A (ed) 2008, Nurse managers, a guide to practice, Ausmed, Melbourne
- Crowther, A 2008, Counselling your staff, Ausmed, Melbourne.
- Crowther, A 2008, Managing relatives concerns, Ausmed, Melbourne.
- Crowther, A., Jefferey, R2007, Group reflective practice as clinical knowledge enhancement in a rehabilitation mental health nursing setting, Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi-disciplinary Journal, ANZAME, Adelaide
- Crowther, A (ed) 2004, Nurse managers, a guide to practice, Ausmed, Melbourne
- Crowther, A 2004, Counselling your staff, Ausmed, Melbourne.
- Crowther, A 2004, Managing relatives concerns, Ausmed, Melbourne.
- Crowther, A 2003, ‘The Asylum in Victoria'’, in Mackinnon, D &
Coleborne, C, Madness in Australia; Asylum, history and heritage, Queensland
University Press, Brisbane. - Crowther, A (ed) The La Trobe Bendigo Pfizer-Roerig Mental Health Nursing Monographs (Bendigo. La Trobe University, 1999)
- Crowther, A Aspects of contemporary multiculturalism and mental health in Andrew Crowther (1999) ibid.
- Crowther, A, Gloria, L, Nayda, R, Wotherspoon, J. Nursing Students from Non English speaking Backgrounds Undertaking CLinical Practicum, and Alternative Approach. (Adelaide, University of South Australia, 1994)