Carolyn Hayes

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at The University of Sydney

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in creating multimodal learning analytics (LA) systems that automatically analyse students’ states that are hard to see with the "naked eye", such as cognitive load and stress levels, but that can considerably shape their learning experience. A rich body of research has focused on detecting such as...

Purpose: Virtual reality (VR) lends itself to communication rehabilitation by creating safe, replicable, and authentic simulated environments in which users learn and practice communication skills. The aim of this research was to obtain the views of health professionals and technology specialists on the design characteristics and usability of a pr...

Background Effective communication and collaboration in interprofessional teams are fundamental to the provision of high quality and safe healthcare. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of interprofessional, pre–qualifying health professional students engaged in a simulated patient care scenario. Methods Students from five healthc...

This paper was written on the lands of the Gadigal people. I pay my respect to Elders past and present and the Traditional Custodians of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nations across the continent now known as Australia. I acknowledge the continuing connection to culture, lands, waters and sky and that sovereignty was never ceded.

Background Debriefing after simulation facilitates reflection and the ability to transfer learning into clinical practice. Aim To evaluate faculty debriefing to inform and guide the development of ongoing resources to support adjunct faculty members and to maximise learning potential for students. Method Faculty debriefing styles were evaluated f...

Background: Collaborative healthcare is pivotal to effective teams contributing to optimal healthcare delivery and outcomes for patients. University healthcare students’ learning extends beyond discipline-specific care and role clarity is vital in shared decision making. Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) involves shared objectives and shared de...

Background: Optimising care for people after stroke requires interprofessional collaboration (IPC) from multiple disciplines. IPC occurs when healthcare professionals share decisions, responsibility, and objectives by working collaboratively to solve patient care issues. Simulation is an effective interprofessional education (IPE) tool for developi...

Invited Speaker and workshop facilitator for the Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) Interprofessional Education (IPE) Colloquium, Canberra, ACT, 6 May 2021

Background Providing authentic educational experiences in clinical teaching laboratories or health care simulation environments is fundamental to producing optimum learning. However, some simulated diagnostic devices are price prohibitive or yet to be developed. This article explores a collaborative effort between health academics and engineering i...

This presentation describes the logistics of two novels models developed, piloted and implemented in pharmacy curriculum to enhance interprofessional collaboration. The professions involved in these models are: pharmacy, nursing, physiotherapy, speech pathology and orthoptics, with input from the medical profession. Both models have the potential t...

Research has demonstrated that students who have immersive experiences in Indigenous settings emerge with a greater understanding of their own values and attitudes and increased appreciation for Indigenous Peoples and culture. Up to 80% of Indigenous people in Australia live in urban settings, yet research on nursing students' placements in urban I...

Pathophysiology describes and explains the physiological dysfunctions that occur in human diseases. Pathophysiology is content heavy, often leading to medical/biomedical science students adopting a surface approach to learning. To encourage more engagement, we developed clinical simulation practical classes using manikin patients. Students consider...

This paper describes a novel model of learning, designed to enhance interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC). Lessons learned, plans for sustainability and future directions for policy, practice, implementation, and curriculum training are also discussed. The RIPE-N model (Reflective Interprofessional Education –...

Background: Interacting and engaging with other health care professionals can enhance communication and collaboration within the multidisciplinary healthcare team, contributing to improved patient safety and patient outcomes. Objective: To explore the student learning experience utilizing the Reflective Interprofessional Education Model (RIPE) m...

Background: Simulation is an effective strategy for enhancing interprofessional education (IPE) and collaboration (IPC). Objectives: A novel interprofessional learning model, The RIPE Model (Reflective Interprofessional Education Model) was applied for a pilot study during a simulation laboratory aimed to (i) enhance pharmacy and nursing student...

Aim: To describe undergraduate nursing students’ situational awareness and understanding of effective liaison and collaboration within the nursing team during interrupted medication administration. Background: Medication errors related to interruptions are a major problem in health care, impacting on patient morbidity and mortality and increasing t...

An oral presentation in Leuven, Belgium on 25th July 2018; describes the RIPE Model for enhancing interprofessional collaboration in the learning environment.

Providing immediate, effective feedback on team and individual performance in healthcare simulations is a challenging task for educators, such is their complexity. Focusing on emergency procedures on patient manikins, our prior work has demonstrated the feasibility of using multimodal data capture and analysis to generate visualisations of student...

This paper describes a novel model to providing interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) within a simulated healthcare environment, in the higher education setting. The RIPE Model (Reflective Interprofessional Education Model) was developed for the purpose of enhancing IPE and IPC, clinical judgement, and decision...

Background Innovations in simulation in nursing and health care continue to be developed as creative and committed educators respond to challenges of providing pedagogically sound, engaging and effective learning experiences for large student cohorts. Time-pressed educators may find it difficult to network with others working in simulation-based le...

A new approach and model to Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Collaboration (IPC)

In many situations, it remains critical for team members to develop strategies to effectively use the space and tools available to complete demanding tasks. However, despite the availability of sensors and analytics for instrumenting physical space, relatively little progress has been made in modelling the embodied dimensions of co-located teamwork...

Supporting the initiation and uptake of simulation-based learning in university or hospital settings requires strategising for human as well as equipment resources. If activities require use of highly technical simulation and audiovisual equipment, faculty may be reticent to engage with the learning strategies that rely on managing “complex” equipm...

Aims and objectives: The aim of this paper is to describe the effect that immersive simulation experiences and guided reflection can have on the undergraduate nurses' understanding of how stressful environments impact their emotions, performance and ability to implement safe administration of medications. Background: Patient safety can be jeopar...

Aims and objectives: This paper describes undergraduate student nurse responses to a simulated role-play experience focussing on managing interruptions during medication administration. Background: Improving patient safety requires that we find creative and innovative methods of teaching medication administration to undergraduate nurses in real-...

Healthcare simulations are hands-on learning experiences aimed at allowing students to practice essential skills that they may need when working with real patients in clinical workplaces. Some clinical classrooms are equipped with patient manikins that can respond to actions or that can be programmed to deteriorate over time. Students can perform a...

Teaching of pathophysiology concepts is a core feature in health professional programs, but it can be challenging in undergraduate medical/biomedical science education, which is often highly theoretical when delivered by lectures and pen-and-paper tutorials. Authentic case studies allow students to apply their theoretical knowledge but still requir...

Background: Simulation allows students to practice key psychomotor skills and gain technical proficiency, fostering the development of clinical reasoning and student confidence in a low risk environment. Manikins are a valuable learning tool; yet there is a distinct lack of empirical research investigating how to enhance engagement between nursing...

The purpose of this review was to explore what is known about interruptions and distractions on medication administration in the context of undergraduate nurse education. Incidents and errors during the process of medication administration continue to be a substantial patient safety issue in health care settings internationally. Interruptions to th...

Background: Medication errors are a global phenomenon. Each year Australia-wide there are up to 96,000 preventable medication errors and in the United States there are approximately 450,000 preventable medication errors. One of the leading causes of errors is interruption yet some interruptions are unavoidable. In the interest of patient safety, n...