LeMone and Burke's Medical-Surgical Nursing

Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, and simulation. Professor Trudy Dwyer is a Research Intensive Academic at CQUniversity and Visiting Research Fellow with Central Queensland Health and Hospital Service. With a background in critical care nursing, she has extensive experience coordinating undergraduate courses/programs, curriculum development and research higher-degree supervision. Professor Lorna Moxham started nursing in 1980 and is a 3-year specialist hospital-trained psychiatric nurse. Lorna is passionate about the nursing profession, particularly mental health nursing, and is actively contributing at regional, state, national and international levels. Kerry Reid-Searl is currently a Professor of Innovation and Simulation in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Tasmania. Kerry has been involved in nursing education for more than 30 years and over this time she has remained clinically current. Her research interests include patient safety, simulation, paediatrics and wound care. Kamaree Houlis-Berry's career spans more than 25 years and commenced with the Australian Army where she trained as a medic and then became a nursing officer at the rank of lieutenant. She has been employed in the public, private and academic sectors in a number of roles, and is now Founder and Director of her own advisory and consulting company. Keryln Carville has extensive clinical experience and is committed to research and education within the domains of wound and ostomy care. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Wound Management Association (now Wounds Australia) in 2006. Majella Hales works as a casual academic at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Originally hospital trained, she has worked in nursing for over 25 years. She maintains her clinical experience by undertaking agency shifts in critical care units across South-East Queensland and provides clinical facilitation for undergraduate nursing students for various local universities. Nicole Knox has been working in nursing for 20 years, including roles as a nursing academic, clinical nurse specialist, clinical educator and nurse unit manager. She has worked in several universities in Sydney where her roles have included unit coordination, teaching and research. She is currently a sessional academic at Western Sydney University. David Stanley began his nursing career in the days when nurses wore huge belt buckles and funny hats. David completed his nursing doctorate in the UK, researching in the area of clinical leadership. He retains a research interest in clinical leadership, men in nursing and the role of the media in nursing. Audrey Berman PHD A San Francisco Bay Area native, Audrey Berman received her BSN from the University of California - San Francisco, and later returned to that campus to obtain her MS in physiological nursing and her PhD in nursing. Her dissertation was entitled Sailing a Course Through Chemotherapy: The Experience of Women with Breast Cancer. As a faculty member, she participated in the transition of that program into a baccalaureate degree and in the development of the Master of Science and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. Over the years, she has taught a variety of medical-surgical nursing courses in the pre-licensure programs. She currently serves as the Dean of Nursing at Samuel Merritt University. She was the 2014-16 president of the California Association of Colleges of Nursing. Dr Berman authored the scripts for more than 35 nursing skills videotapes in the 1990s. She was a co-author of Fundamentals of Nursing and Skills in Clinical Nursing. Shirlee J. Snyder EDD, RN Dr Snyder moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1990 and taught in the ADN program at Portland Community College for 8 years. During this teaching experience, she presented locally and nationally on topics related to using multimedia in the classroom and promoting ethnic and minority student success. Another career opportunity in 1998 led her to the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Dr Snyder was the nursing program director with responsibilities for the associate degree and practical nursing programs for 5 years. During this time she co-authored the fifth edition of Kozier & Erb's Techniques in Clinical Nursing with Audrey Berman. In 2003, Dr Snyder returned to baccalaureate nursing education. She embraced the opportunity to be one of the nursing faculty, teaching the first nursing class in the baccalaureate nursing program at the first state college in Nevada, which opened in 2002. From 2008 to 2012, she was Dean of the School of Nursing at Nevada State College in Henderson, Nevada. She is currently retired. Dr Snyder enjoyed travelling to the Philippines (Manila and Cebu) in 2009 to present all-day seminars to approximately 5000 nursing students and 200 nursing faculty. She is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau. She has been a site visitor for the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission and the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. Trish Burton PhD, BAppSc (Nurse Education), BSc, DipAppSc (Nursing), RN Trish Burton is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing, in the College of Health and Biomedicine, at Victoria University. Her nursing background is in adult intensive care, infectious diseases and emergency nursing. In the nurse academic role, Trish has held many course coordination roles at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has an extensive curriculum development background, and teaches acute care, pharmacology and research.