Biography:
Linda is a Vice Chancellor Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia. Linda’s research focus is on improving patient outcomes in acute care settings and areas of interest include vascular access, pressure injury, falls, indwelling urinary catheterisation and handover. Linda was awarded a National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Post Graduate Scholarship to complete her PhD (conferred in 2016). Linda has a Scopus h-index is 9, with 25 peer reviewed articles. Linda has been successful in 23 grant applications, attracted $2,248,366 in research funding. Of which $117,585 is from NHMRC; $1,527,664 is from three funded internationally advertised post-doctoral positions; $414,819 has been externally funded; and $188,298 has been internally university funded.
Title : Prevalence of pressure injuries over twenty years in a Western Australian hospital and evaluation of an intervention to reduce pressure injury prevalence