Dr Ya-Ling Huang
Name | Dr Ya-Ling Huang |
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Email Address | ya-ling.huang@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Nursing) |
Qualifications | BNurs Fooyin, MNurs QUT, PhD QUT |
Department | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
Affiliations | Centre for Health Research |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6156-4721 |
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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
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Senior Lecturer | University of Southern Queensland | 2024 |
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
Professional Membership | Year |
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Taiwan Association of Critical Care/Emergency Care Nurses (TACCN) | |
College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) | |
Australian College of Nursing (ACN) |
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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The physical health nurse consultant role: a consumer, carer and health professional perspective | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
Exploring the impact of a co-designed delirium toolkit on the management of older people at risk of delirium presenting to the emergency department | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2023 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Online and face-to-face learning for health students: a comparison of staff and student experiences to optimise university teaching and learning | Principal | Masters | 2022 |
Osteopathic healthcare in older populations: preparing pre-registration students for employment in residential aged care facilities | Principal | Masters | 2022 |
Project title | Details | Year |
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CALD Palliative Care | Understanding of palliative care decision-making process for chronic ill patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Murdoch Strategic Research Grant, St John of God Murdoch Hospital. AUD10,000 | 2024 |
CALD Social Inclusion | Challenges and opportunities for social inclusion among childbearing immigrant women of non-English CALD background in Northern NSW Newcastle. Permanent Charitable Foundation. AUD20,000 | 2024 |
TOGETHER | TOGETHER: Families matter. Gold Coast Health Collaborative Research Grant Scheme. AUD99,709.76 | 2023 |
CALD ED-P2 | Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Emergency Department (CALD ED) study: Phase 2 Qualitative Study. Emergency Medicine Foundation. AUD72,609 | 2022 |
CALD ED-P1 | Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Emergency Department (CALD ED) study: Phase 1 Quantitative Study. Gold Coast Health Collaborative Research Grant Scheme. AUD43,310 | 2022 |
COVERED COVID | The COVERED COVID study. Emergency Medicine Foundation. AUD65,504 | 2021 |
EOL ED-Older People | Understanding and informing end-of-life care for older people presenting to the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Foundation. AUD88,375 | 2020 |
MOC ED-Review | Models of care for frail older persons who present to the emergency department: a scoping review. Gold Coast Health Education and Research Trust Account. AUD3,200 | 2020 |
EOL ED-Review | End-of-life care for older people in emergency department: a scoping review. Gold Coast Health Education and Research Trust Account. AUD2,662.8 | 2019 |
EOL-Social Influence | Social ecological influences on preferences for care provided at the EOL amongst Taiwanese city-dwelling adults. QUT Postgraduate Research Award. AUD222,100 | 2009 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2023 | The Awards for Research Excellence: Inspiring Researcher | Southern Cross University | |
2023 | Scholarship Award, National Multicultural Health and Wellbeing Conference | National Multicultural Health and Wellbeing Conference | |
2023 | Mid-career research representative, Faculty of Health Research Committee | Southern Cross University | |
2023 | Executive Committee, Health Services, Clinical & Community Research Group, Faculty of Health | Southern Cross University | |
2022 | Best full research presentation award | Gold Coast Health Research Showcase | |
2019 | Award of Registered Nurse Expert Level, Nursing and Midwifery Professional Recognition Program (NMPRP) | Gold Coast Health | |
2018 | Certificate in recognition of putting the community first | Gold Coast Health | |
2016 | Certificate of achievement award in recognition of valuable contribution to respiratory ward | Gold Coast Health | |
2015 | Excellence in supporting learning recognition award: recognition of outstanding contribution to undergraduate nursing student learning | Metro South Health | |
Visiting Research Fellow | Gold Coast Health | ||
Adjunct Research Fellow | Griffith University | ||
Adjunct Senior Lecturer | Southern Cross University |