Louise Horstmanshof

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• PhD Griffith University
• Senior Lecturer at Southern Cross University

Mastery of academic writing skills remains one of the greatest challenges for university students, especially in the first year. Amongst the reasons offered for the challenges are lack of clarity about the university’s expectations and low levels of teacher feedback on work submitted, a failure to engage, and low levels of contact with teaching sta...

Social engagement and meaningful relationships are critical determinants of the quality of life of older people. Human beings have an intrinsic need for social connections and an engagement with the social environment. Deficits in the quality of these social relationships lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness in older people. Loneliness can...

Despite the expansion of Deaf people's use of communication technology little is published about how they use electronic communication in their social and working lives and the implications for their concepts of identity and community. Australia is an ideal research base because the use of a range of technologies is widespread there. To gain access...

Enhancing student engagement is considered an important strategy for improving retention. Students' Time Perspective is an under-researched factor that may significantly influence student engagement. This study examines interrelationships between elements of student engagement and relationship with Time Perspective. We propose that there are signif...

Rationale While clinical research seeks to evaluate outcomes of various types, no framework has been identified that permits a sufficiently broad approach to evaluating clinical outcomes, in parallel with non‐clinical outcomes. Aims and Objectives The objective of this paper is to examine a unifying framework for evaluating clinical outcomes in pa...

The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI or GAI) marks a significant inflection point in AI development. Long viewed as the epitome of reasoning and logic, Generative AI incorporates programming rules that are normative. However, it also has a descriptive component based on its programmers’ subjective preferences and any disc...

Research honours programs are traditionally used in Australian universities to build and evaluate research capacity in undergraduate health students. The effectiveness of such programs in achieving this in the current higher education landscape has not recently been explored. This mixed methods study examined 66 health research honours programs. We...

BACKGROUND The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI or GAI) marks a significant inflection point in AI development. Long viewed as the epitome of reasoning and logic, AI incorporates programming rules that are normative. However, it also has a descriptive component that is based on its programmers’ subjective preferences, and...

During the COVID-19 pandemics, supporting older adults living in nursing homes to engage in meaningful experiences was challenged. This study aimed to investigate the changes in anxiety, happiness, manual dexterity, and enjoyment for adults aged 72– 100 after an eight-week Zentangle mindfulness-based art therapy course. The course was conducted in...

Humans currently dominate decision-making in both clinical health services and complex health services such as health policy and health regulation. Many assumptions inherent in health service models today are underpinned by Ramsey’s Expected Utility Theory, a prominent theory in the field of economics that is rooted in rationality. Rational, eviden...

Background and objectives: The increasing number of people with dementia requires transparency and quality dementia education, training, and care. This scoping review aimed to determine the key elements of national or state-wide standards on dementia education and training that could underpin the development of international standards for dementia...

BACKGROUND Humans currently dominate decision-making in both clinical health services and complex health services such as health policy and health regulation. Many of the assumptions inherent in health service models today are underpinned by Expected Utility Theory (Ramsey, 1926), a prominent theory in the field of economics that is rooted in ratio...

Background Humans currently dominate decision-making in both clinical health services and complex health services such as health policy and health regulation. Many assumptions inherent in health service models today are underpinned by Ramsey’s Expected Utility Theory, a prominent theory in the field of economics that is rooted in rationality. Ratio...

Background: Health care can broadly be divided into two domains: clinical health services and complex health services (ie, nonclinical health services, eg, health policy and health regulation). Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming both of these areas. Currently, humans are leaders, managers, and decision makers in complex health services. H...

This review aimed to inform a deeper understanding of the varied experiences of ageing in place for older adults in Australia and New Zealand. Ageing in place involves older adults remaining in their own home or community as they age rather than moving into residential care. Our focus was on how ageing in place relates to older adults' mental healt...

Objectives: Studies of dementia knowledge (including dementia risk reduction) in health-care trainees highlight varying levels of understanding across countries and disciplines. This draws attention to the need for a well-trained health workforce with the knowledge to champion and implement such strategies. This study (a) assessed dementia knowled...

BACKGROUND Health care can broadly be divided into two domains: clinical health services and complex health services, i.e., non-clinical health services such as health policy and health regulation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming both these areas. Currently, humans are leaders, managers, and decision makers in complex health services....

Background: Health care can broadly be divided into two domains: clinical health services and complex health services, i.e., non-clinical health services such as health policy and health regulation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming both these areas. Currently, humans are leaders, managers, and decision makers in complex health services...

Health care can broadly be divided into two domains: clinical health services and complex health services (ie, nonclinical health services, eg, health policy and health regulation). Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming both of these areas. Currently, humans are leaders, managers, and decision makers in complex health services. However, with...

Humans currently dominate decision-making in both clinical health services and complex health services such as health policy and health regulation. This scoping review identifies and maps attributes that influence human decision-making in complex health services. A systematic search identified 140 potential articles. Inclusion and exclusion criteri...

Aims: The aim of the study was to explore whether, and how, professional nurse educator identity is co-constructed by a community of practice. Design: A critical participatory action research (PAR) methodology was used as it extends the principles of action research by seeking purposeful and sustainable social change that recognizes participants...

Objective This is the second phase of a project. The aim was to explore Australian chiropractic and osteopathic new graduates' readiness for transition to practice concerning their clinical skills, professional behaviors, and interprofessional abilities. Phase 1 explored final year students' self-perceptions, and this part uncovered their opinions...

BACKGROUND Health care can broadly be divided into two domains: clinical health services and complex health services, i.e., non-clinical health services such as health policy and health regulation. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming both these areas. Currently, humans are leaders, managers, and decision makers in complex health services....

Purpose: Understanding how individuals respond and adapt to change is essential to assist leaders to manage transformational change effectively. Contemporary health care environments are characterised by frequent and rapid change, often with unrealistic and challenging timeframes. Researchers have employed a range of assessment scales to assess in...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the response and adaption to change of allied health professionals. Understanding how individuals respond and adapt to change is essential to assist leaders to manage transformational change effectively. Contemporary health-care environments are characterised by frequent and rapid cha...

Objective The objective was to determine final-year students' self-perceptions of readiness for transition to practice, professional identity, and experiences of interprofessional clinical practice. Findings will inform the clinical education curriculum. Methods We used repeated measures individual case studies with a self-selecting sample from th...

Background: The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of participants in a short aquatic exercise programme for individuals with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and to gain insight into the perceived psychosocial benefits. Methods: The exercise programme was of five-weeks duration, with two self-paced aquatic sessions...

Objective The purpose of this study was to ask older adults in a regional area of Australia how they made the decision to move into an independent living unit (ILU) within a three‐tier residential complex that provides varying services and care to older adults. Method Focus groups were used to enable the gathering of rich data and to enable the vo...

Background A Dementia Health Literacy Project was undertaken in the north coast region of NSW, Australia, after it was identified as having a high prevalence of dementia. A Dementia Support Kit was produced with service user engagement to provide useful information to people with dementia and their families. Objective To evaluate the Dementia Heal...

The prevalence of age-related hearing loss is high among older adults. Growing longevity and the older profile of aged care residents is likely to result in an increasing incidence of hearing loss among this cohort. This review reports on the findings of a systematic search of the academic databases CINAHL, Medline, PsychInfo and Scopus undertaken...

Abstract: Introduction: Increasingly, universities are allocating substantial resources and efforts towards developing their own student-led clinical services (SLCS) within university health clinics (UHCs). For that reason, under the umbrella of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAPHE), clinical educati...

Providing effective interprofessional practice experience for pre-registration students is challenging. We share an innovative approach that provided opportunities for students from osteopathy and social work to work together and learn from each other. As academics tasked with providing practice experience for pre-registration students, we report w...

In this paper, we report on a series of placements for clinical exercise physiology students in a simulation-based education environment with older, independent adults. The purpose of these placement opportunities was to help prepare students to work confidently and competently with older adults in primary healthcare settings. The effectiveness of...

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is vital for preparing health-work students for practice. WIL activities have multiple stakeholders, each with their own set of expectations and requirements, both explicit and implicit. Negotiations to provide these learning experiences for students happen at many levels and those at the coalface are often unaware of...

Suggested Citation Horstmanshof, L & Power, MR 2004, 'YYSSW (Yeah, yeah, sure sure whatever)', 90th National Communications Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill., 11-14 November.

We write in response to Eva Bendix Petersen’s commentary on ‘Australian early career researchers’ narratives of academic work, exit options and coping strategies’, published in Australian Universities’ Review (AUR) 53(2). While the professoriate is, perhaps, unable to directly tackle the malaise that Petersen ascribes to what she sees as an unsusta...

In 1991 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Principles for Older Persons as a framework for international policy responses to population ageing. These principles promote independence, participation, care, self-fulfilment and dignity as legitimate entitlements of all older people. Although these principles, or variations of them, are emb...

Higher education institutions around the world have invested decades of research and employed countless interventions to address low first year retention rates, as such rates impact negatively on funding, enrolments and public perceptions. The increased diversity of the contemporary first year student population, and their competing identities of s...

In Australia there is widespread community concern about the wellbeing of adolescents, particularly at the important time of approaching the transition from school to post-school life. However, few studies have focused on the wellbeing of Australian Year 12 students. This paper reports on a study investigating wellbeing among 377 Year 12 students i...

This article examines the degree to which first year university students use mobile telephony to stay in contact with their lecturers and tutors. Survey data from two cohorts of first year students are discussed. The special relationship students have with their mobile phones provides opportunities for extending the use made of the technology in ed...

This paper confirms the influence of temporal orientation on student engagement as investigated in a survey of first year university students at a multi-campus institution in Australia. The study considered inter-relationships between five temporal orientations (Future, Past Positive, Past Negative, Present Hedonistic and Present Fatalistic) and th...

This paper summarises data on attitudes and use of SMS from an on-line interactive group session with 150 students who had read an academic paper and a magazine article on SMS and who were located in five separate classrooms equipped with Blackboard chat. After each question set by the authors, thirty students in each classroom posted individual re...

This paper investigates the use of SMS (Short Messaging Service) to maintain connection within established groups of friends despite geographical dislocation. It tests the ideas of the social limitations of a virtual world where the communication is phatic rather than extended due to the message constraints of the SMS. The data is provided from an...

Text messaging, or SMS (Short-Message-Service), allows users to send and receive short messages from handheld digital mobile phones or from a computer to a mobile phone, giving almost instant access to others so connected. The privacy and immediacy of SMS and its widespread use have implications for human behaviour and social intercourse. The focus...

The search for answers to the first year departure puzzle continues unabated. Despite decades of research and countless interventions the issue remains and grows increasingly complex as the contemporary first year student population becomes increasingly diverse. We propose that individuals who see education as a priority and find their studies pers...

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The first year experiences of full-time students not in paid employment (Group 1, n=576), full-time students in full-time paid employment with some family/carer responsibilities (Group 2, n=298), and full-time students in full-time paid employment who are primary income earners and primary carers in their household (Group 3, n=63) are significantly...

This article reports findings from a study of the effectiveness of workplace health and safety officer (WHSO) training in the Brisbane and Gold Coast region of Queensland, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with WHSO, management and employee respondents from organisations in the construction, manufacturing and service sectors. Qua...

Although there is a growing recognition of the health benefits of breastfeeding among the health professionals and the general public, many health care practices appear to disrupt the processes necessary to establish and maintain breastfeeding. In support of breastfeeding, the World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Bre...

The present and future impact of deaf people's use of electronic communication methods on the deaf community is considered in the light of data from a mail survey of Australian Deaf people. While most respondents used all methods regularly, patterns of use emerged with Short Message Service (SMS) used for social interactions, telephone typewriters...

Text messaging, or SMS (Short-Message-Service), allows users to send and receive short messages from handheld digital mobile phones or from a computer to a mobile phone, giving almost instant access to others so connected. The privacy and immediacy of SMS and its widespread use have implications for human behaviour and social intercourse. The focus...

This paper reports on research conducted in relation to a Postgraduate peer support programme for Applied Psychology (Business) at Griffith University. The Peer Support Programme, funded by a Griffith University grant, was designed on principles of collaboration, adult learning and peer-assisted learning in a student community in order to counter t...

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This paper provides data about the way that deaf people use of SMS (short message service), TTYs, the National Relay Service and Computers to communicate with both deaf and hearing friends, family and work associates. The paper builds on the work of Horstmanshof and Power (2004) and Power and Power (2004) by examining data from a survey of deaf peo...