Dr Leanne Cowin

Biography


Leanne Cowin has been a nurse for over 25 years in many clinical areas ranging from community mental health care and forensic nursing through to accident and emergency nursing. From 1994 Leanne has taught at a number of universities in NSW and Victoria on topics as varied as microbiology through to research methods and epidemiology. Her current areas of interest include nursing research, retention issues, and mental health nursing. As the author of the Nurses Self-Concept Questionnaire, Leanne is committed to the development of self-esteem and professional identity for nurses within the health care workplace. Topics of current research include new graduate nurses, job satisfaction, nursing retention, leadership and professional identity. These topics continue to be key issues in Australia's nursing workforce.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise


Teaching Areas
 
Professional Issues
Leadership and Management
Research Methodologies
Mental Health Nursing

Research Areas
 
Professional Issues - Recruitment and Retention, Self-Concept, Job Satisfaction
New Graduate Nurse issues

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Grants/Current Projects


2008-2012
Nursing Qualities and Professionalism - longitudinal study of students in the Bachelor of Nursing Program through to graduate nurses
A RING project.

2007-2011
Nursing Team Communications Project
A RING project UWS in conjunction with industry partners South East and South West Sydney Area Health

2007 ongoing
Professional Identity and Self-Concept Development project
Medical School UWS.

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Selected Publications


Cowin, L.S., Hengstberger-Sims, C., Eagar, S.C., Gregory, L, Andrew, S., & Rolley, J. (2008). Competency measurements: Testing convergent validity for two measures. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 64(3), 272-277.

Cowin, L.S., Johnson, M., Craven, R.G., & Marsh, H.W. (2008). Causal modeling of self-concept, job satisfaction, and retention of nurses. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45(10), 1449-1459.

Andrew, S., Gregory, L., Cowin, L.S., Eagar, S.C., Hengstberger-Sims, C., & Rolley, J. (2008). Psychometric properties of the Australian nurse competency 2000 standards. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45(10), 1512-1515.

Hengstberger-Sims, C., Cowin, L.S., Eagar, S.C., Gregory, L., Andrew, S., & Rolley, J. (2008). Relating new graduate nurse competence to frequency of use. Collegian, 15(2), 69-76.

Cowin, L.S., Craven, R.G., Johnson, M., & Marsh, H.W. (2006). The dynamic nature of nurses' self-concept. Collegian, 13(3), 25-31.

Duchscher, J.E.B., & Cowin, L. (2006). The new graduates' professional inheritance. Nursing Outlook, 54(4), 152-158.

Cowin, L.S., & Hengstberger-Sims, C. (2006). New graduate nurse self-concept and retention issues. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 43(1), 59-70.

Duchscher, J.E.B., & Cowin, L. (2004). Multi-generational nurses in the workplace. Journal of Nursing Administration, 34(11), 493-501.

Duchscher, J.E.B., & Cowin, L. (2004). The experience of marginalization in new nursing graduates. Nursing Outlook, 52(6), 289-96.

Cowin, L.S., & Jacobsson, D.K. (2003).The Nursing shortage: Part way down the slippery slope. Collegian, 10(3), 31-35.

Cowin, L.S., & Jacobsson, D.K. (2003). Addressing Australia's nursing shortage: Is the gap widening between workforce recommendations and the workplace? Collegian, 10(4), 20-24.

Cowin, L.S., Davies, R., Estall, G., Berlin, T., Fitzgerald, M., & Hoot, S. (2003). De-escalating aggression and violence in the mental health setting. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 12(1), 64-73.

Cowin, L.S. (2002). The effects of nurses' job satisfaction on retention: An Australian perspective. Journal of Nursing Administration, 32(5), 283-291.

Cowin, L.S. (2001). Nurses' self-concept. Collected papers of the Advancing Nursing through Research Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, March 16-17, 2001.

Cowin, L. (2001). Measuring nurses' self-concept. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 23(3), 313-25.

Cowin, L.S. (2000). The self-concept of nurses and the relationship of multiple dimensions of nursing self-concepts to job satisfaction. Collected Papers of the Inaugural Self-Concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation (SELF) Research Centre International Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 5-6, 2000, 180-186.

Books

Happell, B., Cowin, L.S., Roper, C., Foster, K., & McMaster, R. (2008). Introducing Mental Health Nursing: A Consumer Oriented Approach. Sydney, NSW: Allen and Unwin.

Book Chapters

Cowin, L.S., & Duchscher, J.E.B. (2008). Transitional programs. In E. Chang, & J. Daly (Eds.), Transitions in Nursing (2nd Ed). NSW: Elsevier.

Cowin, L.S. (2007). Psychosocial health and illness. In J.M. Wilkinson, & K. Van Leuven (Eds.), Fundamentals of nursing: theory, concepts & applications (pp 186-208). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company.

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