Mrs Christine Walker
Lecturer,
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Biography
Christine is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years’ experience in clinical practice and education. Christine's clinical area of expertise is in operating theatre nursing where she held governance positions of clinical nurse specialist, clinical nurse educator and nurse educator. She is a lecturer at Western Sydney University and has been teaching in the undergraduate nursing degree in theoretical and clinical units for 14 years, and also acts as subject coordinator for a large multi campus first year clinical subject.
Christine has been developing her publications profile since 2016 and is currently a PhD Candidate at WSU researching nursing numeracy education exploring the pedagogical approaches to the teaching of numeracy in undergraduate nurse education: Towards an evidence-based and standardised approach.
This information has been contributed by Mrs Walker.
Qualifications
- BN(Hons) Western Sydney University
- RN Eng Nat Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health
- MHlthScEd University of Sydney
- GDipNurs
- BN University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
Awards
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice_President Academic Award for Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student learning 2020-12-08
- Enhancing Student Engagement School of Nursing and Midwifery 2023-12-11
- Higher Degree Research Conference Best Third Year Presentation 2023-07-06
- Higher Degree Research Conference Best Presentation 2020-07-03
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- School of Nursing and Midwifery
Contact
| Email: | C.Walker@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Phone: | (02) 4570 1693 |
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| Location: | G10.G.30 HawkesburyHawkesbury |
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Teaching
Current Teaching Areas
- 401004 Professional Practice Experience 2
- NURS1001 Approaches to Professional Nursing Practice
Previous Teaching Areas
- 401000 Professional Practice Experience 1, 2017
- 401000 Professional Practice Experience 1, 2020
- 401000 Professional Practice Experience 1, 2021
- 401000 Professional Practice Experience 1, 2023
- 401001 Primary Health Care in Action, 2017
- 401003 Professional Communication, 2016
- 401004 Professional Practice Experience 2, 2014
- 401007 Approaches to Professional Nursing Practice, 2017
- 401020 Professional Practice Experience 6, 2017
- 401022 Leadership in Nursing and Midwifery, 2016
- 401029 Foundations for Nursing Practice, 2015
- NURS1001 Approaches to Professional Nursing Practice, 2019
- NURS1001 Approaches to Professional Nursing Practice, 2020
- NURS1020 Professional Practice Experience 1, 2018
- NURS1020 Professional Practice Experience 1, 2019
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Walker, C. (2022), 'Urinary elimination', Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery: A Person-Centred Approach to Care, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 9781925058246.
- Walker, C., Donohoe, P., Hadlow, S. and Wilson, N. (2021), 'Perioperative nursing', Nursing in Australia: Contemporary Professional and Practice Insights, Routledge 9780367637859.
- Walker, C. (2017), 'Urinary elimination ', Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery: A Person-Centred Approach to Care, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 9781496350992.
Journal Articles
- Walker, C., Wilson, N., Rylands, L., Hunt, L. and Pettigrew, J. (2024), 'Numeracy teaching for undergraduate nursing students : a scoping review', Journal of Nursing Education, vol 63, no 4 , pp 218 - 227.
- Walker, C., Pettigrew, J., Hunt, L., Rylands, L. and Wilson, N. (2023), 'Nurse education leaders' perspectives on the teaching of numeracy to undergraduate nursing students : a qualitative research study', Nurse Education in Practice, vol 72 .
- Walker, C., Wilson, N., Rylands, L., Hunt, L. and Pettigrew, J. (2021), 'Undergraduate nursing curricula : numeracy and accreditation', Collegian, vol 28, no 5 , pp 559 - 564.
- Walker, C., Wilson, N., Ramjan, L. and Glew, P. (2017), 'Unleashing the potential and pitfalls of the iPad on undergraduate nursing students in tertiary education', Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association, vol 25, no 2 , pp 39 - 50.