Maree Bernoth

Biography

Despite nearly twenty years teaching nursing, I am a relative newcomer to tertiary teaching. I was in the privileged position of undertaking my three research projects while working in the clinical sector. This gives me a lived appreciation of the struggles involved in being a wife, parent, clinician and researcher. My tertiary studies commenced at CSU, as a distant student, when I was in my thirties with three small children. The range of my clinical experience is mental health, aged care, palliative care, acute care and community nursing in diverse roles but predominantly in education. This experience has been across metropolitan and rural health which has given me an insight into the similarities and divergence in issues for nurses in both settings. My passion for research and teaching stems from the appreciation that it is through these two areas I can make a difference. It is the transformative potential of teaching that motivates me to continue to develop my own skills so that I can better facilitate insight and learning for students.

Research Interest

Promoting skills and the use of technology to detect functional decline in older people living in the community