Kristen Graham
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About
Kristen is a PhD candidate at the Research School of Population Health. She is a registered nurse and midwife with postgraduate qualifications and experience in public health, professional education and training, community health and child health nursing. Kristen has worked in numerous nursing, midwifery, education and research roles in Australia, England, Thailand, Sierra Leone and Timor Leste, with a particular focus on maternal, newborn and child primary health care, quality improvement and workforce capacity building.
Kristen’s PhD research focuses on strengthening the birth preparedness and complication readiness capacity of primary care midwives working in rural and remote resource limited settings, with the aim of providing evidence for policy and practice.
Affiliations
- Infectious Diseases and Modelling, Student
Research interests
Midwifery
International maternal, neonatal and child health
Primary health care in resource limited settings
Workforce strengthening
Projects
Publications
Situmorang HE, Sweet L, Graham K, Grant J. Health care provider's perceptions of factors that influence infant mortality in Papua Indonesia: A qualitative study. Women Birth. 2021 Apr 23:S1871-5192(21)00073-1. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2021.04.007. Epub ahead of print.
Foster W, Sweet L, Graham K. Midwifery students experience of continuity of care: A mixed methods study. Midwifery. 2021 Mar 18;98:102966. doi: 10.1016/j.midw.2021.102966. Epub ahead of print.
Tadaumi M, Sweet L, Graham K. A qualitative study of factors that influence midwives' practice in relation to low-risk women's oral intake in labour in Australia. Women Birth. 2020 Sep;33(5):e455-e463. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2019.11.004. Epub 2019 Nov 30.
Williams H, Sweet L, Graham K. Acupuncture during pregnancy and the perinatal period: Women's attitudes, beliefs and practices. Women Birth. 2020 May;33(3):e286-e294. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2019.04.010. Epub 2019 May 10.
Sweet L, Fleet J, Bull A, Downer T, Fox D, Bowman R, Ebert L, Graham K, Bass J, Muller A, Henderson A. Development and validation of the Australian Midwifery Standards Assessment Tool (AMSAT) to the Australian Midwife Standards for Practice 2018. Women Birth. 2020 Mar;33(2):135-144. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2019.08.004. Epub 2019 Sep 9.
Sweet L, Bass J, Sidebotham M, Fenwick J, Graham K. Developing reflective capacities in midwifery students: Enhancing learning through reflective writing. Women Birth. 2019 Apr;32(2):119-126. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2018.06.004. Epub 2018 Jun 20.
Fealy S, Jones D, Hutton A, Graham K, McNeill L, Sweet L, Hazelton M. The integration of immersive virtual reality in tertiary nursing and midwifery education: A scoping review. Nurse Educ Today. 2019 Aug;79:14-19. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2019.05.002. Epub 2019 May 4.
McKellar L, Fleet J, Vernon R, Graham MK, Cooper M. Comparison of three clinical facilitation models for midwifery students undertaking clinical placement in south Australia. Nurse Educ Pract. 2018 Sep;32:64-71. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2018.07.010. Epub 2018 Jul 17.
McKellar L, Graham K. A review of the literature to inform a best-practice clinical supervision model for midwifery students in Australia. Nurse Educ Pract. 2017 May;24:92-98. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2016.05.002. Epub 2016 May 12.
Mohale H, Sweet L, Graham K. Maternity health care: The experiences of Sub-Saharan African women in Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia. Women Birth. 2017 Aug;30(4):298-307. doi: 10.1016/j.wombi.2016.11.011. Epub 2016 Dec 9.