Associate Professor Cecily Hengstberger-Sims
DEPUTY DEAN - SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY,
Dean's Unit - School of Nursing and Midwifery
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Personal
Qualifications
- DipNursEd College of Nursing
- PhD University of New England
- BSocSc University of New England
- MHlthPersEd University of New South Wales
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Nursing and Midwifery
- School of Nursing and Midwifery
Contact
| Email: | C.Hengstberger-Sims@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 3324 |
| Mobile: | 0424485322 |
| Location: | 7.G.23 Campbelltown |
| Website: |
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Biography
Cecily Hengstberger-Sims is the Director of Undergraduate Nursing Studies and the Associate Head of School for Campbelltown campus within the School of Nursing and Midwifery, UWS. She has been involved in nurse education at UWS for over 20 years and maintained a current clinical profile and experience until recent years. She was the foundation Director of the Graduate Nurse Research and Practice Unit ( now known as Centre for Applied Nursing Research, a joint UWS and South Western Sydney Area Health Service initiative). Her teaching areas include nursing research, leadership and management. Research and scholarly interests include Transition to Graduate Practice, Workforce Issues and Education Issues Surrounding Preparation for Practice. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia and the College of Nursing, Foundation member of the UWS Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Hengstberger-Sims.
Interests
- Curriculum Development, Implementation and Evaluation in Nursing
- Transition to Graduate Practice
- Workforce Issues
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Hengstberger-Sims, C. and Forber, J. (2005), 'Infectious Disease Health Breakdown', Pathophysiology Applied to Nursing Practice, Mosby Elsevier 9780729537438.
Journal Articles
- Cowin, L., Hengstberger-Sims, C., Eagar, S., Gregory, L., Gregory, L., Andrew, S. and Rolley, J. (2008), 'Competency measurements: testing convergent validity for two measures', Journal of Advanced Nursing, 6.
- Andrew, S., Gregory, L., Gregory, L., Cowin, L., Eager, S., Hengstberger-Sims, C. and Rolley, J. (2008), 'Psychometric properties of the Australian nurse competency 2000 standards', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 4.
- Hengstberger-Sims, C., Cowin, L., Eagar, S., Gregory, L., Gregory, L., Andrew, S. and Rolley, J. (2008), 'Relating new graduate nurse competence to frequency of use', Collegian, 8.
- Cowin, L. and Hengstberger-Sims, C. (2006), 'New graduate nurse self-concept and retention: A longitudinal survey', International Journal of Nursing Studies, 12.
