Dr Karina Bria

Dr Karina Bria is a Lecturer at the UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences incorporating the School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences and School of Nursing & Midwifery and comprising programs spanning Nursing, Midwifery, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Science, Medical Sciences, Laboratory Medicine, and Nutrition and Food Science

Throughout her extensive and successful career Dr Bria worked for a number of organisations around Australia in management and leadership, education and research, and clinical practice development. Since joining the University of South Australia she has worked as a course co-ordinator and lecturer in a number of subject areas.

Dr Bria has a commitment to supporting and developing students’ experiences with learning and continuously strives to develop innovative approaches for synchronous and asynchronous modalities suitable for actively engaging learners in the on-line environment.

A personal passion for Women’s Health, First Peoples’ Health and Rural and Remote Community Health facilitates her dedication to maintain currency of disciplinary expertise and industry linkages working in rural & remote health facilities in various locations around Australia. Engagement with industry provides a blend of theory and practice that helps students relate classroom teaching to industry and inspires them to consider options for future career pathways. In 2021, she will lend her expertise in the development of a Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) model in rural WA.

Dr Bria’s research focus includes First Time Fathers and their experiences with new fatherhood, Aboriginal Women’s peri-natal health & well-being, and Paternal and Maternal Postnatal Depression. 

Australian College of Midwives 

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF - SA Branch)

CRANAplus – Improving Remote Health (Peak body for the remote and isolated health workforce)

Leaders in Indigenous Nursing & Midwifery Education Network (LINMEN)

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy University of Adelaide

• Masters of Midwifery University of South Australia

• Bachelor of Nursing University of South Australia

• Midwifery Certificate The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Work history

Nursing Lecturer

University of South Australia, Clinical & Health Sciences: 2020 - Current

Midwifery Lecturer/Course Coordinator

University of South Australia, School of Nursing & Midwifery: July 2017 – 2019

Midwife/Nurse - Nurse at Call Nursing Agency – Queensland & New Zealand - July 2015 – Current

Areas of practice: Midwifery (birth suite – specialising in high risk pregnancy & labour, postnatal/antenatal, special care nursery), Paediatrics, Accident & Emergency, Surgical & Medical, Palliative Care

Nurse Unit Manager (NUM) – Maternity Services

Northeast Health Wangaratta, Victoria: March 2014 - 2015

Acting Nurse Unit Manger – Maternity Services

Northeast Health Wangaratta, Victoria: August 2013 – 2015

Clinical Midwife Consultant (CMC) – Maternity Services

Northeast Health Wangaratta, Victoria: June 2012 – March 2014

(Clinical educator for multi-disciplinary team, undergraduate & post-graduate students, medical students)

Project Officer – Central Hume Clinical Practice Network Project

Benalla Health, Victoria: February 2011 – 2012

(Interdisciplinary Collaboration Project)

Project Officer – Nurse Practitioner Model of Clinical Practice

Education & Research Unit, Northeast Health Victoria: September 2010 – February 2011

(Design of Critical Care, Acute Care & Emergency Nurse Practitioner Model of Clinical Practice)

Grant Administration Officer - The University of Adelaide, School of Population Health & Clinical Practice: 2008 - 2009

Midwife/Nurse – Casual - Burnside Memorial Hospital: 2006 - 2009

(Antenatal/Postnatal, Birth Suite, Special Care Nursery, General surgical & Medical)

Course Coordinator and Lecturer – Bachelor of Midwifery Program

University of South Australia: 2004 – 2006

Midwife/Nurse: Nursing Agency of South Australia: 2004

(Antenatal/Postnatal, Birth Suite, Special Care Nursery, Paediatrics, General surgical & Medical, High Dependency Unit, Emergency Department)

Lecturer – Bachelor of Midwifery Program

University of South Australia: 2003 – 2006

Clinical Facilitator - Bachelor of Midwifery Program

University of South Australia: 2002 – 2003

Senior Midwife/Clinical Facilitator for Graduate Midwifery Program

Modbury Public Hospital: 2000 – 2003

Clinical Facilitator – Bachelor of Nursing Program

University of South Australia: 2000 – 2002

Registered Midwife/Nurse – Casual - Modbury Public Hospital: 1998 – 2000

(Midwifery, Paediatrics, Surgical, Emergency Department)

Registered Midwife

Modbury Public Hospital: 1992 – 1994

Midwife - Shared Care Clinic - Adelaide

Dr Basil Antonas (Obstetrician – Gynaecologist): 1988 - 1990