Health Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences, Bendigo

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Dr Julie Ellis Senior Lecturer in Nursing RN, RM, DipAppSc(NursEd.) Lincoln IHS, BAppSc(Adv Nur) Phillip, MNursStud La Trobe, PhD La Trobe, FRCNA Room 2.39 Health Building Ph: 5444 7543 Fx: 5444 7977 Email: j.ellis@latrobe.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities:
Research Methods for the Health Sciences
Gerontology: The Experience of Ageing; Ageing, Health and Society; Promoting Healthy Ageing; Ageing in the Community; Gerontological Nursing
Health Education

Publications:
Ellis, J. (2003) Reaching Out - Nursing in F.Fransella (Ed) International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology. Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons.

Ellis-Scheer, J. M. (2000) Professional identity: making sense of Repertory Grids. In: Scheer, J. W. (Ed.) The Person in Society - Challenges to a Constructivist Theory. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. (212-222)

Ellis, J. M. (1999). Nursing care of older people - a personal construct theory perspective. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 29. (160-168).

Kippen, S., Ellis-Scheer, J. M. (1998). Leisure and friendship for teenagers with disabilities. Australian Journal of Parks and Leisure. December (28-31).

Ellis, J. M. (1997). Nurses' anticipations of caring for elderly patients. in: P. M. Denicolo and M. L. Pope (Eds.). Sharing understanding and practice. Farnborough: EPCA Publications. (267-276)

Scheer, J. W., Hundertmark, K., Ellis, J. M. (1997). Life satisfaction in young adults and elderly persons. in: P. M. Denicolo and M. L. Pope (Eds.). Sharing understanding and practice. Farnborough: EPCA Publications. (166-176)

Ellis, J. M. (1996). He was big and old and frightening: Nursing students' constructs of older people. in: B. M. Walker, J. Costigan, L. L. Viney, B. Warren (Eds.). Personal construct theory: A psychology for the future. Melbourne: APS Imprint. (89-103).

Ellis, J. M. (1996). Challenging health professionals to care. in: J. W. Scheer, A. Catina (Eds.). Empirical Constructicism in Europe: The personal construct approach. Giessen: Psychosozial Verlag. (189-198).

Keleher, H., Ellis, J. M. (1996). Rural people utilizing city hospitals: issues for service provision. The Australian Journal of Rural Health. 4. (144-150)

Conference Presentations Professional identity: making sense of repertory grids. 13th International Personal Construct Congress, Berlin, Germany. July, 1999

Cross-cultural constructs of ageing. Victorian Personal Construct Psychology Association and Interest Group of the Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne. November, 1998

Some correlates of life satisfaction in rural elderly. Australian Association of Gerontology, 1998 National Conference, Melbourne. October, 1998

Experiences of rural carers. Australian Association of Gerontology, National Conference, Melbourne. October, 1998

The role of 'caring' in the professional construct systems of nurses. 8th Australasian Personal Construct Conference, Brisbane. July, 1998

The professional identity of health carers - a personal construct theory interpretation. 7th German Personal Construct Conference, Leipzig, Germany. February, 1998

Identifying the context of the construct 'caring' using the laddering technique with nurses. 12th International Personal Construct Congress, Seattle (Washington), USA. July, 1997

Construing life satisfaction in old age - a binational study. 12th International Personal Construct Congress, Seattle (Washington), USA. July, 1997

Student nurses' anticipatons of their nursing identity using laddering technique. 6th German Personal Construct Conference, Muenchen, Germany. February, 1997

Nurses' anticipations of caring for elderly people. 3rd Biennial Conference, European Personal Construct Association, Reading, England. April, 1996

Nursing care of older people- a personal construct theory perspective. 5th German Personal Construct Conference. Giessen, Germany. January, 1996