Steve Frost

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Awards/Honours
• Grants/Current Projects
• Engagement Interests
• Contact details

Biography

Steve Frost is a Lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University of Western Sydney. He began teaching at the School of Nursing and Midwifery in 2006, after previously working for the Area Health Service since 1997 at Liverpool Hospital Intensive Care. Before this he had worked at Bankstown Hospital ICU since 1994.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

Current teaching

Critical care nursing

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Awards/Honours

Morris Cram award for outstanding achievement in ICU certification course, Liverpool Hospital, 1997

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Grants/Current Projects

PhD candidate, UNSW School of Public Health and Community Medicine: Osteoporosis Epidemiology - Bone Loss and Fracture Risk.

2007-2009

Project: Using computer-assisted learning to improve academic performance in nursing students for whom English is a second language (CALAIS).

Funding: UWS partnership grant.

Researchers: Yenna Salamonson, Jane Koch, Steve Frost & K. Dunncliff.

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Selected Publications

2011

Alexandrou, E., Ramjan, L.M., Spencer, T., Frost, S.A., Salamonson, J., Davidson, P.M., & Hillman, K.M. (2011). The use of midline catheters in the acute care setting - clinical implications and recommendations for practice. Journal of the Association for Vascular Access, 16(1), 8-13.

2010

Alexandrou, E., Spencer, T., Frost, S., Parr, M., Davidson, P., & Hillman, K. (2010). Establishing a nurse-led central venous catheter insertion service. JAVA: The Journal of The Association for Vascular Access, 15, 21-27.

Betihavas, V., Newton, P., Hui, Y., Macdonald, P., Frost, S., Stewart, S., & Davidson, P. (2010, in press). Australia's health care reform agenda: Implications for the nurses' role in chronic heart failure management, Australian Critical Care. doi:10.1016/j.aucc.2010.08.003

Frost, S., Davidson, P., Alexandrou, E., Hunt, L., Salamonson, Y., Tam, V., et al. (2010). Unplanned admission to the intensive care unit in the very elderly and risk of in-hospital mortality. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 12(3), 171-1

Frost, S., Tam, V., Alexandrou, E., Hunt, L., Salamonson, Y., Davidson, P., et al. (2010). Readmission to intensive care: Development of a nomogram for individualising risk. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 12(2), 83-89.

Gholizadeh, L., Salamonson, Y., Davidson, P., Parvan, K., Frost, S., Chang, S., & Hare, D. (2010). Cross-cultural validation of the cardiac depression scale in Iran. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Epub March

Yacopetti, N., Alexandrou, E., Spencer, T., Frost, S., Davidson, P., O'Sullivan, G., & Hillman, K. (2010). Central venous catheter insertion by a clinical nurse consultant or anaesthetic medical staff: A single-centre observational study. Critical Care and Resuscitation, 12(2), 90-95

2009

Alexandrou, E., Spencer, T., Frost, S., Parr, M., Davidson, P., & Hillman, K. (2009). A review of the nursing role in central venous cannulation: Implications for practice policy and research. Journal of Clinical Nursing, Sep 4, [Epub ahead of print].

Frost S.A., Nguyen N.D., Center J.R., Eisman J.A., Nguyen T.V. (2009). Timing of repeat bone mineral density measurements: Development of an absolute risk-based prognostic model. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, May 6, [Epub ahead of print]

Frost S.A., Alexandrou E., Bogdanovski T., Salamonson Y., Davidson P.M., Parr M.J., Hillman K.M. (2009). Severity of illness and risk of readmission to intensive care: A meta-analysis. Resuscitation, May, 80(5):505-10.

Frost S.A., Alexandrou E., Bogdanovski T., Salamonson Y., Parr M.J., Hillman K.M. (2009). Unplanned admission to intensive care after emergency hospitalisation: Risk factors and development of a nomogram for individualising risk. Resuscitation, Feb, 80(2):224-30.

2008

Nguyen, N.D., Frost, S.A., Center, J.R. Eisman, J.A., & Nguyen, T.V. (2008). Development of prognostic nomograms for individualizing 5-year and 10-year fracture risks. Osteoporosis International, 19(10), 1431-1444.

Tam, V., Frost, S.A., Hillman, K.M. & Salamonson, Y. (2008). Using administrative data to develop a nomogram for individualising risk of unplanned admission to intensive care. Resuscitation, 79(2), 241-248.

2007

Frost, S.A., Nguyen, N.D., Center, J.R. Eisman, J.A. & Nguyen, T.V. (2007).  Discordance of longitudinal changes in bone density between densitometers. Bone, 41(4), 690-697.

Nguyen, N.D., Frost, S.A. Center, J.R., Eisman, J.A. & Nguyen, T.V. (2007). Development of a nomogram for individualizing hip fracture risk in men and women. Osteoporosis International, 18(8), 1109-1117. 

2006

Smith, B.J., Zehle, K., Bauman, A.E., Chau, J., Hawkshaw, B., Frost, S. & Thomas, M. (2006). Quantitative methods used in Australian health promotion research: A review of publications from 1992-2002. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 17(1), 32-36.

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Engagement Interests 

• Australasian Epidemiological Association
• Society for Epidemiological Research (US)
• Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society
• American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 

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