Professor Patsy Yates

Background

Patsy is jointly appointed as Professor of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology, and Director for Queensland Health’s Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education, a state-wide service that was established to enhance palliative care services in Queensland through education and research. As Director for the Centre, Patsy leads a range of programs focused on developing workforce capacity in palliative care, researching priority issues in palliative care, and strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice.

Patsy has developed a program of research aimed at improving management of symptoms associated with advanced progressive disease, having undertaken studies evaluating non-pharmacological and behavioural interventions for people with cancer experiencing cancer pain, breathlessness, fatigue and nausea. She was National Chair for the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia, and has served as member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee for Palliative Care Australia, the Board of Directors for the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care and the Board of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre.

Project Highlights

• 2010-2012: A Randomised Controlled Trial of Aetiology Based Antimetic Guidelines to Reduce Nausea in Advanced Cancer Patients, National Health and Medical Research Council.
• 2009: Palliative Care Research Program, Round 3. Expectations and barriers in the ambulance service and palliative care interface. National Health and Medical Research Council.
• 2008 – 2009: Developing a novel method for delivering a behavioural intervention for decreasing morbidity in women with a chronic disease: a randomized controlled trial. Australian Research Council Linkage
• 2007 – 2009: Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in cancer patients. National Health and Medical Research Council
• 2006 – 2009: Bayesian statistical methods for enhancing evidence-based practice in Australia’s hospitals. Australian Research Council

 Industry Research Activities

• 2009 – 2010: Development of cancer survivorship self-management plans, Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing.
• 2009 -2010: Development of an Interactive Training Module for Health Professionals to Address the Psychosexual Care of Women Affected by Gynaecological Cancers. Cancer Australia
• 2009: Evaluation of a standardized two-step process of pre-screening and comprehensive assessment of the older cancer patient with solid malignancy, Metro South Division of Cancer Services.
• 2007 – 2010: National coordination and Management of the Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach. Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing (Competitive Tender).
• 2006 – 2010: Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates Implementation Project. Australian Government, Department of Health and Ageing.