- Research Snapshot 2023
- Foreword
- A message from the RBWH Foundation
- A message from The Common Good
- Research stories
- Pre-hospital pathway improving heart attack outcomes
- Caboolture diabetic research attracting global attention
- Improving safety of kidney biopsies at the RBWH
- Breakthrough for diabetes foot ulcer sufferers
- Using artificial intelligence for polyp detection in colonoscopy
- Kids Pain Collaborative at Redcliffe Hospital
- Virtual reality and education for low back pain
- Gestational diabetes screening could be easier thanks to COVID
- Whole Genome Sequencing pilot helps patients and families
- QUT Metro North Nursing and Midwifery Academy
- Vertigo management key tool to preventing falls in older patients
- Community dysphagia research highlights telehealth importance
- RADAR RR grant to provide hospital level care at home
- Does antibiotic delivery method improve health outcomes?
- Radiation shield provides greater protection to staff
- Using AI to identify aspiration in children with feeding disorders
- New online platform helping determine causes of delirium
- Transforming consumer and community involvement in research
- HBI engineers modelling patient-focussed care
- Improving pressure injury management in palliative care
- Stoma study shows importance of exercise to avoid complications
- Improving the menopause journey for women in the workplace
- Research study highlights complexities of ICU environment
- More growth in nursing research at Redcliffe
- The Queensland Aphasia Research Centre recognised
More growth in nursing research at Redcliffe
A blooming research culture has helped deliver three of five Metro North Health nursing research internships to Redcliffe Hospital.

Redcliffe Hospital ICU nurses and researchers Kylie Jacobs and Laura Smith.
Launched in 2020, the Metro North-QUT Nursing Research Intern Scholarships are designed to enable nurses and midwives to undertake research under the guidance and direction of QUT nursing researchers.
Dr Amanda Fox from QUT was appointed to Redcliffe Hospital’s nursing and midwifery research professorial position in 2020 and said the appointment of so many Redcliffe nurses this year proves a growing research culture at Redcliffe.
“We see that at the hospital’s Nursing and Midwifery Spotlight, which is now in its third year, and at the workshops we’ve run for nurses to build skills for new researchers in concept development and application writing,” Dr Fox said.
“But mostly, it’s down to the quality and dedication of the nurses themselves and how they support each other.”
The latest round of successful nursing research internships included Redcliffe Hospital nurses Laura Smith, Veronica Regis, and Ella Thompkins. Dr Fox said all three nurses were conducting useful research projects that had implications for the profession and patient care.
Renee McMillan was the first Redcliffe Hospital nurse awarded a nursing research intern scholarship, and she has many good things to say about the program.
“The communication and support were excellent, and my mentor, Dr Fox, was supportive and inspiring,” Renee said.
Renee says her research project achieved its aims and went on to inform nursing care in her ward, improving patient outcomes. That research was eventually presented at the Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses Association Conference.
Kylie Jacobs, a nurse educator in the ICU at Redcliffe Hospital, was another nursing research internship alumnus who is now supporting colleagues in ICU to undertake small projects and inspiring them to apply for the internship.
“As part of the research internship, interns received support from two PhD prepared nursing academics for 12 months, with backfill of their position one day per week to support their research work,” Dr Fox said.
“The goal is for the intern’s project to produce valid, relevant and publishable research outcomes.”
To find out more about how to apply for the next round, visit: Nursing and Midwifery Research Internships – Metro North Health.