Health Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences, Bendigo

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Fran Sheean Lecturer in Nursing Room 3.11 Health Building Ph: 5444 7539 Fx: 5444 7977 E: f.sheean@latrobe.edu.au

Teaching Responsibilities:
Midwifery
Maternal & Child Health Nursing
Professional issues in Nursing
Evidence Based Practice

Research Interests:
Midwifery
Rural Midwifery
Women's health
Discourse Analysis
Feminist appraoches to research
Action Research

Professional Activities:
Royal College of Nursing Australia, member
Aust College of Midwives - Fellow
Aust College of Midwives - Member of ANEST Reference Group
Aust College of Midwives Vic Branch - Member of Executive; President 2001-3
Maternity Coalition, member
Birth Support Bendigo, member

Publications:
Sheean F, 1998, The Midwife of the future, report on Midwifery in rural Victoria, Melbourne, Aust College of Midwives (Vic Branch) pp 9-10.

Sheean, F & Francis, D, 1998, Florence Nightingale: a blessing or curse for nursing education? Conference Proceedings 8th National Nurse Education Conference: Linking State of the art with state of practice in nurse education. Monash University, CD Rom.

Sheean, F, 1997 Empowerment through reflective practice: are we just treating the symptoms?In Kristjansdottir G, Sveinsdottir H & Thoroddsen A (eds) Nursing Conversations: scholarship and pracrice. University of Iceland, Nursing Research Paper series. Reykjavik, University Press, University of Iceland. Vol. 1. pp 333-7.

Conference Presentations:
Invited Sessions
Papers:
Sheean F 2004 Integrating midwifery students into clinical areas. Midwifery Unit Managers Forum . Australian College of Midwives, Ballarat 1 July 2004

Sheean F 2002 Introduction -midwifery and SIDS prevention. Midwifery wards: Safe sleeping for infants - SIDS reduction and midwifery ward practice. SIDS and KIDS. Melbourne 10 October, 2002.

Sheean F 2002 Primary health and midwifery. Birthing healthy families: risk, rhetoric and reality. Australian College of Midwives (North Central Branch). Bendigo 20 September.

Sheean F 1999 Code of Practice for Midwives in Victoria. Essential Antenatal Skills for Midwives Australian College of Midwives (Victorian branch), Rochester, 26 June.

Sheean F 1998 Adult learning in childbirth education. Study day for Childbirth Educators, Bendigo Health Care Group, 6 November.

Sheean F 1998 The midwife of the future Rural midwifery in the year 2000 Australian College of Midwives (Victorian Branch) and the Coordinating Unit for Rural Health Education in Victoria, Castlemaine 26 May.

Book Launch:
Sheean F 2000 launched book by Mitner S (2000) Reflexology for midwives at Rhythm, flow and synergy: Embracing the spirit of wholeness in healing. Australian College of Holistic Nurses 4th International Conference. Lorne, December 10-12.

International Conference Papers:
Sheean F 2005 Whose experience is this? The language of midwives, women and birthing. Midwifery: Pathways to a health nation. 27th International Congress of the International College of Midwives Brisbane 24-28 July 2005

Sheean F 2003 Can midwifery education be transformative? Collaborative conversations. 5th International Collaborative Conversations Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth, UK. 8-11 September.

Sheean F 2002 Shaping the Future: alternative approaches to health promotion in midwifery. Midwives and women together for the family of the world. 26th Triennial Congress International of Midwives, Vienna 14-18 April.

Sheean F 2001 Beware of the dragons in the university without walls. Contesting conversations in practice, education, research and policy. 4th International Nursing and Midwifery conference. Adelaide. November 4-7.
Sheean F 1999 Quality assurance in education: a case of the curate’s egg. The new nursing: converging conversations of education, research and practice. 3rd biennial international nursing conference, University of Wisconsin USA, 14-17 July.

Sheean F 1997 Transforming nursing education: the rhetoric of emancipatory pedagogies. Second Biennial International Nursing Conference Connecting conversations: nursing at the threshold of the 21st century Palmerston North, New Zealand 3 - 6 December

Sheean F 1997 Are we educating nurses for the 21st century?. Sharing the health challenge Book of Abstracts for the 21st Quadrennial Conference, International Council of Nurses, Vancouver 15 -20 June.

Sheean F 1996 Nursing knowledge - whose knowledge? Knowledge and Discourse: Changing relationships across academic disciplines and professional practices. An International Multidisciplinary Conference; Hong Kong 18-21 June.

Sheean F 1996 Overcoming the tyranny of distance: the use of video-conferencing in midwifery education. The Art and Science of Midwifery gives Birth to a Better Future, 24th Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives, Oslo; 26-31 May.

Sheean F 1996 Development of nursing: pathway to recognition or invisibility? Discourse and Cultural Practice An International Multidisciplinary conference; Adelaide 28 February - 3 March.

Sheean F 1995 Empowerment through reflective practice: are we just treating the symptoms? Nursing Scholarship and Practice: Connecting Conversations, The First Biennial International Nursing Conference University of Iceland. Reykjavik: June

National Conference Papers:
Sheean F & Cameron J 2003 Exploring the frontiers of midwifery education: can we be innovative and still produce safe practitioners? Frontiers of midwifery. Australian College of Midwives Inc. 13th Biennial National Conference. Darwin, 2-4 September. Invited Plenary paper

Sheean F 1999 Midwifery, midwives and power. Hearts, hands and minds: midwifery in the new millenium. Australian College of Midwives Inc. 11th biennial national conference, Hobart, 2-4 September.

Sheean F & Francis D 1998 Florence Nightingale: a blessing or curse for nursing education? 8th National Nurse Education Conference: Linking state of the art with sate of practice in nurse education. Monash University 9 -11 February

Ronaldson S & Sheean F 1994 Midwifery: Education Advancement. The Way Forward in the Year of the Family: Neonatal Nursing and Midwifery Conference, Kirwan Hospital for Women, Townsville October.

Sheean F 1994 Beware of the dragons: the use of communication technologies in nursing education. Educating for Excellence: Pathways to Professional Development, 6th Sixth National Nursing Education Conference, Canberra. September

Sheean F 1993 Triple jump: and academic exercise. Problem Based Learning in Nursing Education and Practice: constructing a revolutionary future, National Nursing Conference, Quality Health Forums, 1 April-1 May.

State Conference Papers:
Sheean F & Conners AM 1996 Research is a dirty word! Research for the Future: Health Services and Universities in Partnership, Lower North Coast Health Service, 26-27 September.

Sheean F 1995 But that's not research!. Investigating Our Practice, The Bendigo Health Care Group, 14-15 December.

Sheean F 1989 The role of PREAC. Annual Conference of the Loddon Campaspe/Mallee Region, Health Department, Victoria. March.