Dr Ya-Ling Huang

Biography

Dr. Ya-Ling Huang has her Masters and PhD in Nursing, and is a registered nurse in Australia and overseas. She is a teaching and research academic in School of Nursing and Midwifery at University of Southern Queensland. She has been with emergency department research at the Gold Coast Health for more than 6 years. She is also an adjunct research fellow at the Griffith University and an adjunct senior lecturer at Southern Cross University. She has had a number of teaching, clinical and research highlights in her nursing career. The most highlights are "The Vice Chancellor Award for Research Excellence: Inspiring Researcher (Deans Nomination), Southern Cross University" endorsed by Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Academic Capability), "Award of Registered Nurse Expert Level, Nursing and Midwifery Professional Recognition Program, Gold Coast Health", and "Excellence in Supporting Learning Recognition Award: Recognition of Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Nursing Student Learning, Metro South Health".

She has also worked at various tertiary universities (Griffith University, Southern Cross University, University of New England) for undergraduate and postgraduate education. She has had an extensive clinical experience in various clinical settings in both acute and subacute care in Gold Coast Health, Metro South Health, Residential Aged Care and overseas, such as emergency department, medical assessment unit, adult intensive care (hospital trained program), acute respiratory, cancer and blood disorder, palliative care, acute medical ward and aged care. Her extensive clinical research experiences are in emergency department research, Gold Coast Health, Centre for Online Health and Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Queensland. She was a mid-career research representative in Faculty of Health Research Committee as well as in the Executive Committee of Health Service, Clinical & Community Research Group at Southern Cross University.

Employment

Expertise

Dr Huang's research focus is in the evidence-based practice, nursing education and clinical research. Specifically, the clinical research focuses on vulnerable populations, especially older people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, people with mental health conditions, palliative care, end-of-life care, and chronic diseases in acute care settings, especially in emergency departments.

She has had an extensive clinical research experience, as a research coordinator and clinical nurse researcher in the emergency department at the Gold Coast Health. She has worked collaboratively with researchers from health services, national universities as well as international universities. She has been involved in research projects which have attracted more than half a million fundings from various sources. She has also published a number of peer-review publications in Q1/Q2 journals and has successfully mentored clinicians and nursing students in clinical research projects and published in peer-review journals. She is a credentialed Higher Degree Research Supervisor and has supervised Master of Osteopathic Medicine Students towards completion of their research projects. She is currently supervising Higher Degree Research Students.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

NUR3398 Complex Care B

NUR3300 Clinical Inquiry and Evidence Based Practice

Postgraduate course

ANP6011 Clinical Leadership in Contemporary Health Care Practice

HSC6060 Research Project Design

Fields of Research

• 420316. Palliative care
• 420501. Acute care
• 420506. Sub-acute care
• 420599. Nursing not elsewhere classified
• 420602. Health equity
• 470212. Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies

Professional Membership