Associate Professor Nel Glass RN BA(UNSW) MHPEd(UNSW) PhD(UNSW) Nel Glass is a registered nurse, sociologist, ethnographer, digital artist and Reiki Master. Her nursing speciality is neuroscience nursing. Nel is an Associate Professor in the School of Health & Human Sciences. She holds the following key positions: •Director of Research and Research Training for Nursing and Health Care Practices. •Research convenor: Designated area of research — Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. •Committee member: University Human Research and Ethics. •Committee member: Clinical trials. She has been engaged in emancipatory research projects for most of her academic career. Her research projects continue to be centred on improving workplace practices, retention, recruitment, hope, resilience, optimism; notions of voice, healing and mobile subjectivities. Most of her research projects use qualitative social science methodologies and performative based art. Her most current research projects are: •A critical exploration of nurses and health care workers’ professional development and emotional integration. •Reframing workplace experiences in the academy in Scotland, England and New Zealand: Hope, optimism and career resilience. •Modelling the training and job decisions of nurses in NSW (Australian Research Council Discovery grant). •An investigation of factors that enhance nurses' workplace satisfaction, wellbeing and retention in the USA and Australia. •Burma Women’s Voices of Hope: Narrative and Advocacy Ethnographic Research. She currently is supervising 11 PhD students. Nel has held an Adjunct Professor/ Clinical Teaching Associate position at the University of Connecticut, US since 2002. She will be teaching the PhD course ‘History and Philosophy of Science’ at the University of Connecticut in Fall, 2009.
Journal articles
Enhancing emotional wellbeing through self-care: the experiences of community nurses in Australia (with Jayln Rose), Holistic Nursing Practice (2008)
This article discusses the importance of self-care in enhancing the emotional well-being of generalist community...
Advancing clinical nursing education in mental health: student self assessment of clinical competences (with Louise Ward), Annual Review of Nursing Education, volume 6, 2008: Clinical nursing education (2008)
Interrogating the conventional boundaries of research methods in social sciences: the role of visual representation in ethnography, Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research (2008)
The author will propose that the use of performative social science is a means to...
The importance of emancipatory research to contemporary nursing practice (with Jayln Rose), Contemporary Nurse (2008)
When considering the significant changes that continue to transform nursing practice, a focus on evidenced-based...
Investigating women nurse academics’ experiences in universities: the importance of hope, optimism and career resilience for workplace satisfaction, Annual Review of Nursing Education, Volume 5, 2007: Challenges and new directions in nursing education (2007)
Book chapters
DVD and art exhibititions
A visual herstory of the Lismore Women Health Centre (20 year history project), School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2007)
Conference publications
Community nurses experiences: navigating the emotional journey of palliative care provision (with Jayln Rose), 4th Biennial NSW Primary Health Care Research & Evaluation Conference (2007)
Background
A doctoral study entitled ‘Emotional work, emotional wellbeing and professional practice: the lived experiences...
Critical reflections of a feminist postmodern ethnology that innovatively revealed valuable nursing knowledge (with Helen K. Pannowitz and Kierrynn Davis), 3rd International Congress on Innovations in Nursing (2007)
Unsettling grief discourses (with Janet Glimore and Kierrynn Davis), 14th International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference (2007)
Getting to the heart of the matter: community nurses speak about providing palliative care and their compelling need for emotional support (with Jayln Rose), NSW Palliative Care Conference (2006)