Dr Allison Roderick is the Program Director - Postgraduate Nursing and Senior Lecturer at the UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences.
Allison completed her Nursing degree at the University of South Australia in 1995. She then persued a career in Intensive Care which saw her work in both public and private ICUs in Adelaide, Darwin and London. On her return to Australia she undertook her PhD at Flinders University, entitled "Beyond Basics: Embedded infection control in everyday practices of nurses in an intensive care unit". Her research to date has used qualitative methodology to unpack infection control, missed care, quality & safety and mass-gatherings.
Her career has also enabled her to have close connections with industry... Read more
About me
Dr Allison Roderick is the Program Director - Postgraduate Nursing and Senior Lecturer at the UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences.
Allison completed her Nursing degree at the University of South Australia in 1995. She then persued a career in Intensive Care which saw her work in both public and private ICUs in Adelaide, Darwin and London. On her return to Australia she undertook her PhD at Flinders University, entitled "Beyond Basics: Embedded infection control in everyday practices of nurses in an intensive care unit". Her research to date has used qualitative methodology to unpack infection control, missed care, quality & safety and mass-gatherings.
Her career has also enabled her to have close connections with industry including: infection control, education, ICU, perioperative and COVID surveillance.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2021 |
2
1
6
|
| 2020 |
Open access
11
8
|
| 2017 |
10
8
|
Roderick, A 2014, ‘The challenges faced in infection prevention and control practices’, Australian Nurses and Midwifery Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, p 40
Roderick, A 2013, ‘Is it all ‘just’ in our hands?’, Australian Nurses and Midwifery Journal, vol. 20, no. 10, p 51
Hutton, A. Roderick, A, Munt, R, Mayner L, Kako M & Arbon, P, 2012, ‘Celebrating the end of school life: a pilot study’, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, p. 13-17
Hutton A, Roderick A & Munt R, 2010, ‘Lessons learnt at World Youth Day: Collecting data at using postcards at mass gatherings’, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Journal, May-June, pp. 273-277. This article has been cited in the Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Journal compendium of Mass gatherings and has been cited in the learning resource centre
Roderick, A 2010, ‘Dirty nursing: containing defilement and infection control practices’ in D Holmes and T Rudge (eds) Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, UK
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Education Committee MemberAustralasian College of Infection Prevention and Control |
2017 |
Education Committee MemberAustralasian College of Infection Prevention and Control |
2016 |
Education Committee MemberAustralasian College of Infection Prevention and Control |
2015 |
Teaching & student supervision
