Eileen Petrie

Biography

Eileen commenced her nursing career as a generalist at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and followed through with her Basic Psychiatric Nursing qualifications at Mayday Hills Hospital, Beechworth, Victoria. Over the years since qualifying as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and working for 10 years in the psychiatric clinical setting, Eileen has attained the degrees in Post Graduate Diploma in Community Psychiatric Nursing (La Trobe University), Master of Nursing Science (La Trobe University), and PhD (Adelaide University). Eileen has been in Academia since 2002 where she was a Senior Lecturer with La Trobe University, Albury/Wodonga campus and more recently as Assistant Professor with the University of Canberra. Eileen's roles within the University sector are: Clinical Director of Nursing, Masters Coursework Coordinator, Honours Coordinator, Post Graduate Mental Health Subject Coordinator, Coordinator Bachelor of Nursing Mental health Major: Promoting Mental Health; Child and Adolescent Nursing and Psychiatric Geriatric Nursing. Her lecturing component includes lecturing into all levels of Undergraduate, Post Graduate and Higher Degree levels. Eileen's area of research expertise is in Action Research and examined stressors in rural and remote community mental health teams which contribute to workplace burnout using this methodology for her PhD.

Research Interest

Nursing