Ingrid Plueckhahn

Biography

Ingrid is an Advanced Practice Nurse in Smoking Cessation and has been a cancer nurse for over 26 years, as a Nurse Manager, Quality Manager, Practice Development Nurse and Patient Services Manager. After graduating from the Royal Melbourne Hospital School of Nursing she completed a Bachelor of Health Science, then specialising with a Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing, followed by a Graduate diploma in Advanced Nursing in Palliative Care. She completed a Clinical Research Fellowship to find the many benefits gained by people with cancer when they quit smoking, then project led Peter Mac to become the first metropolitan hospital to become completely smoke free, and to provide skilled support to patients who wanted to quit. This work was published in the Australian Journal of Cancer Nursing. She also worked for the Victorian Quit Line as a specialist telephone advisor and health professional educator for 7 years. She then completed a Masters in Public Health specialising in Social and Indigenous health. She developed and maintains a nurse led tobacco treatment clinic at Pete Mac, in the specialist clinics. Ingrid is also an Accredited Remote Area Nurse and worked in very remote Indigenous communities in Primary Health care services and as an Educator for Indigenous Health Care Professionals. She has been an invited speaker and Key Note Speaker at several International and National Conferences on the topic of Smoking Cessation, and Benefits of Quitting for Patients with Cancer.

Research Interest

TOBACCO TREATMENT