Associate Professor Stephen Kermode RN BA(MCAE) MHPEd(UNSW) PhD(NE) 

Stephen is an Associate Professor of Nursing in the School of Health & Human Sciences
at Southern Cross University. He has a variety of research interests related to the broad
fields of nurse education, clinical practice and socio-cultural parameters of health. He
has worked as a nurse since 1976 and as a nurse educator and academic since 1981.

Journal articles

The influence of alcohol and tobacco use in orthopaedic inpatients on complications of surgery (with Gerard Williams, Michelle Daly, Elizabeth M. Proude, Michelle Davis, Jan Barling, and Paul S. Haber), Drug and Alcohol Review (2008)

Introduction and Aims. Tobacco use and heavy alcohol consumption are associated with increased morbidity and...

Is nurse education sexist?: an exploratory study, Contemporary Nurse (2006)

A cross-sectional population survey of students enrolled at an Australian university was undertaken using a...

A study of the effects of social change on health in the Republic of Palau (with Julita Tellei), Pacific Health Dialog (2005)

This study was conducted in the Republic of Palau. It aimed to examine the impacts...

How do perioperative nurses cope with stress? (with Brigid M. Gillespie), Contemporary Nurse (2004)

In recent years there has been broad discussion on the nature of stressors experienced by...

Social change and men’s health in Palau, Tia Belau (2004)

Books

Contexts of health, School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2006)

Research in nursing and health care: evidence for practice (with Beverley J. Taylor and Kathryn Roberts), School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2006)

'Research in Nursing and Health Care: Evidence for Practice' is written by experienced nurse-researchers to...

Critical perspectives on health, School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2004)

'Critical perspectives on health' provides students with a critical overview of the social and political...

Foundation concepts for holistic health, School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2004)

Getting started in health research, School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2004)

'Getting started in health research' provides undergraduate science students with an overview of the research...

Book chapters

Nursing theory: whose interests are being served? (with Sandra Speedy), Nursing theory in Australia: development and application (2000)

Speedy, S & Kermode, S 2000, 'Nursing theory: whose interests are being served?', in J...

Conference publications

Trajectories of social change: A study of globalisation processes in the Republic of Palau (with Julita Tellei), Social Change in the 21st Century Conference, QUT (2004)

PDF

Keynote address: Science and not-science in nurse education, Proceedings of the Nursing Research Conference of the NSW Nursing Research Interest Group (1996)

Science is under threat from a number of sources. In nurse education a range of...

Keynote Address. Nursing research: where to from here?, NSW Nursing Research Interest Conference- COSINE '95 (1995)