Person
Parker, Judith Milburn (1936 - )
- Born
- 26 June 1936
Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Nurse, Teacher and Scholar
- Alternative Names
- MacRea, Judith (maiden name)
Summary
Judith Parker undertook her basic nursing education through the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Associated Hospitals School of Nursing. Following three years as a staff nurse and two years as a nurse educator she left full-time nursing for a number of years to concentrate on raising four children and undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate study at Monash University, supplemented by part-time clinical work. As one of very few PhD prepared nurses working in higher education in nursing in Australia in the early 1980s, she was well positioned to play a leading role in the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to higher education. Subsequently she was extremely influential in the development of higher degrees in nursing and in the establishment of a research base for the discipline in Australia. Her contribution to scholarship and professional development in nursing is highly regarded internationally.
Details
Professor Parker is one of the pre-eminent figures in Australian nursing education and scholarship. In her career as a nursing academic she has been at the helm of a series of major innovations. From the Head of Nursing at the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, to the Foundation Head and Professor of Nursing at La Trobe University, to the establishment of the School of Nursing at the University of Melbourne, Professor Parker has been a trailblazer, highly regarded and immensely influential in the establishment and development of the discipline of nursing in Australia.
She is esteemed internationally for her work in promoting international nursing, for the quality of her publications and for the role she has played as Founding Editor of the prestigious scholarly journal Nursing Inquiry. She has played a major role locally and internationally on key committees and boards aimed at promoting nursing research and scholarship. She was included in the Victorian Honour Roll for Women 2001 and appointed a member of the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Medicine and appointed Professor Emeritus of the University of Melbourne.
Chronology
- 1954 - 1957
- Student nurse at Royal Melbourne and Associated Hospitals School of Nursing
- 1957 - 1960
- Staff Nurse, Royal Melbourne Hospital
- 1961 - 1962
- Nurse Educator, Kingston Centre
- 1963 - 1971
- Clinical nursing, part-time
- 1971 - 1974
- Charge Nurse, part-time; rehabilitation, long-term care, diabetic unit, Caulfield Hospital
- 1974
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Major in Sociology, Monash University
- 1975 - 1978
- Tutor part-time, Sociology Department, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
- 1975 - 1979
- Recipient Commonwealth Post-Graduate Research Award
- 1979 - 1982
- Lecturer, School of Nursing, Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences
- 1981
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Sociology of Health and Illness, Monash University (thesis titled "Cancer Passage: Continuity and Discontinuity in Terminal Illness")
- 1982 - 1983
- Senior Lecturer, Co-ordinator of Bachelor of Applied Science, (Advanced Nursing) Course, School of Nursing, Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences
- 1984 - 1987
- Head, School of Nursing, Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences
- 1988 - 1989
- Chairperson and Director of Studies, Department of Nursing, La Trobe University
- 1989 - 1996
- Foundation Professor, School of Nursing, La Trobe University
- 1995 - 2005
- Editor-in-Chief, Nursing Inquiry
- 1996 - 2004
- Foundation Professor and Head, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
- 2001
- Cited on the Victorian Honour Roll for Women
- 2002
- Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia
- 2003 - 2004
- Deputy President, Nurses Board of Victoria
- 2004 - 2005
- Visiting Professor, Department of Nursing Studie, University of Hong Kong
- 2004 - 2005
- Special Professor, School of Nursing, University of Nottingham
- 2005 -
- Honorary Professor, Department of Nursing Studie, University of Hong Kong
- 2005
- Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
- 2005
- Doctor of Medicine, (Honorary), University of Melbourne
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Resources
- 'Parker, J M (1936-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-526477. Details
Digital resources
Helen Hamilton for ANMHP
Created: 28 March 2006, Last modified: 4 June 2010
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