Staff profile

Ms Kerrie Gamble

Lecturer, First Year Coordinator LRHS

Faculty of Health Sciences

La Trobe Rural Health School
Department of Rural Nursing and Midwifery

Bendigo

 

Qualifications

Master of Health Science, Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nurse Education, Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing (Child, Family & Community), Midwifery certificate, General Nursing Certificate

Membership of professional Associations

MRCNA

Area of study

Nursing

Brief Profile

Kerrie  Gamble  has a 15  year clinical  background in Melbourne (The Alfred) and Bendigo, across a broad range of clinical areas including medical, and surgical nursing, midwifery and clinical nurse education.  Since 2004 Kerrie has been a nursing lecturer  at La Trobe University Bendigo (now the La Trobe Rural Health School)  teaching into the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing program. She is particularly interested in supporting the transition to tertiary studies, and has been the Nursing 1st year coordinator since 2005. She has been involved in the development and implementation of the Common First Year program in the Faculty of Health Sciences as well as the introduction of the new Bachelor of Nursing Curriculum at La Trobe University. From  2009 Kerrie has been the Common First Year Coordinator at Bendigo. Kerrie’s  research focus includes Innovation in teaching and learning, Bullying and OH&S in Nursing, and interdisciplinary support programs for clinicians to academia.

Teaching Units

CFY Interprofessional Practice A (Co-ordinator of LRHS), Essential Nursing Care (Team Leader), Clinical Assessment & Decision making (2nd year), Community Nursing (2nd year), Initial Registration for Overseas Nurses (IRON Program) 2010-11  

Recent Publications

  • Murnane, J., Kendall, S., and Gamble, K. (2009). Factors affecting compliance for patients using Webster-paks. Australian Pharmacist. 28(8) 700-705
  • Principle proposer for a successful La Trobe Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability grant, December, 2010.
  • Conference presentation ‘The newly graduated nurses experience of workplace aggression’ at the ‘Professional issues in practice: our professions in focus’, Melbourne, June 2011.
  • ‘Showcase of research and teaching’ presentation, 2010. 
  •  Co-presentation of ‘Lost in transition: moving from clinical practice to academia’ at the Faculty seminar, and the ‘Division retreat’, 2006.