Kathy Monson
Lecturer
Department of Nursing and Health Science
Eastern Institute of Technology
New Zealand
Biography
Kathy is a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing. She commenced her nursing education at Napier Hospital in 1972.Most of her clinical nursing experience took place in medical/surgical areas, until 1997 when she became a team leader at the Hawkes Bay Hospital. This role encompassed leading a team of registered nurses and care associates in a specialist surgical ward. Her areas of nursing practice were Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology.On commencement of her employment at EIT in 2004 she completed the National Certificate of Adult Education and Training and went on to complete a Masters Of Education. Her current research interests include the history of nursing and the experiences of nursing students in the clinical setting.
Research Interest
Nursing and Management - Contemporary Issues in Nursing and Health Care, Transition to Registered Nurse Practice, Masterate Thesis Supervision
Publications
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Merchant, R., & Keenan, E. (2016, July). Who am I? I belong to a mountain like you; Identities and the MÄori diaspora in New Zealand. Paper presented at the Inter-disciplinary.Net 8th Global Meeting of the Diasporas Research Stream: A Cultures, Traditions, Societies Project, Oxford, England.
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Merchant, R. (2016, June). Preparing for practice: An education model for transformative change in perceptions, attitudes and beliefs. Paper presented at the Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development 2016, Seoul, South Korea.
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Crawford, R., Crawford, R., Monson, K., Monson, K., Searle, J., & Searle, J. (2016). Mentoring tertiary students from a secondary school incubator programme focusing on health careers: Findings from a New Zealand study. Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 8(4), 424-438.
