Dr Lisa Beccaria

Name	Lisa Beccaria
Position	Senior Lecturer (Nursing)
Section	School of Nursing and Midwifery
Office	W526
Location	Toowoomba Campus
Phone	+61 7 4631 2753
Extension	2753
Email
Qualifications	BNurs USQ , PGDipHlthSt Qld , MHlthSc USQ , PhD USQ

Research Career

Fields of Research (FoR)

Nursing not elsewhere classified ( 111099 )

Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified ( 111799 )

Public Health not elsewhere classified ( 420699 )

Nursing not elsewhere classified ( 420599 )

Research interests
Preventative Health Care, Interprofessional Health Education, Technology in Nursing Education, Employability, Rural and Remote Nursing

Professional memberships
Member of Centre for Health Sciences Research
Member of the Australian Collaboratory for Career, Employability and Learning for Living (ACCELL)
Educator Member of the Centre for Interprofessional Education - University Health Network (Canada)
Australian College of Nursing - MACN (Secretariat - Community of Interest, Rural and Remote) & Workforce Sustainability Policy Chapter member).

USQ Research affiliations

Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)

Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research (CHIER)

Teaching

Currently teaching courses/programs
NUR1100 - Introduction to Nursing Praxis
NUR2300 - Evidence Based Nursing Practice
NUR2099 - Clinical A - Assessment and Care
NUR1200 - Concepts in Patient Care
NUR3020 - Transition to Professional Practice
NUR1120 - Social Determinants of Health

2020 - Deans Commendation for Learning and Teaching
2020 - School Citation Learning and Teaching - School of Nursing and Midwifery
2020 - USQ Staff Excellence Award for Faculty Teaching ( Health, Engineering and Sciences)

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
15 Years

Teaching experience(Other)
15 Years

Publications

Research most recent
Fein, E., Sakykova, N., Collins, P., Beccaria, L., Goh, S & Kauter, K. (2021). Effects of professional compromise on Higher Education employees. International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology. https://ijisrt.com/assets/upload/files/IJISRT21MAR533.pdf

Beccaria, L., Kek, M., & Huijser, H. (2019). Using "just in time" online feedback to improve first-year undergraduate nursing students' essay writing performance. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, https://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/vol16/iss4/7/

Ralph, N., Graham, C., Beccaria, L., Rogers, C. (2018). Entry requirements: Results from a national survey on nurse academics on entry requirements in Australian bachelor of nursing programs, Collegian. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2018.06.005

Beccaria, L., Kek, M., Huijser, H. (2018). Exploring nursing educators' use of theory and methods in search for evidence based credibility in nursing education, Nurse Education Today, 65, 60-66.

Beccaria, L., Beccaria, G., McCosker, C. (2018). A confirmatory factor analysis of the student evidence-based practice questionnaire (s-ebpq) in an Australian sample, Nurse Education Today, 62, 69-73, doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.12.010

Gorman, D., Cuadra, A., Perez, M., Zaplana., Martin., D., Bujosa, N., Beccaria, L., Martyn, J., Dawson, R., Beccaria, G., & Hossain, Delwar (2016) Preparation of Australian and Spanish nursing students for intimate partner violence. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 6 (12). pp. 131-135. ISSN 1925-4040

Beccaria, L., Rogers, C., & Burton, L. (2016). Australian distance students’ perceptions of individual and institutional responsibility for health and wellbeing. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (JANZSSA), 47, April 2016.

Beccaria, L., Rogers, C., Burton, L., & Beccaria, G. (2016). Role of health-promoting behaviours for on-campus and distance students. Distance Education, doi: 10.1080/01587919.2016.1158768

Beccaria, L., Kek, M., Huijser, H., Rose, J & Kimmins, L, 2014, The interrelationships between student approaches to learning and group work, Nurse Education Today. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/25248/

Beccaria, L., Lockwood, C., & Moloney, C. (2014). Contributing to evidence-based healthcare cultures through lifelong learning. In J. Lawrence, C. Perrin, & E. Kiernan (Eds.), Building communication capacity in professional nursing and academic contexts. Melbourne, Cambridge University Press.

Beccaria, L. (2013). The relationship between distance students’ health risk and health-promoting behaviours, stress, strain, coping and academic outcomes. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/24783/

Beccaria, G., Beccaria, L., Dawson, R., Gorman, D., Harris, J., & Hossain, D. (2013). Nursing student's perceptions and understanding of intimate partner violence. Nurse Education Today, 33 (8). pp. 907-911.

Moloney, C & Beccaria, L.(2009) Perceived facilitators and inhibitors for the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) by nurses: a systematic review. JBI Library of Systematic Reviews, 7 (33). pp. 1430-1491.

Conference Papers:

Beccaria, L. M., Beccaria, G., & McIlveen, P. (2016). The Deadly Nursing Indigenous Mentoring Program. Paper presented at the 2016 Biennial Conference of the Society for Vocational Psychology, 16-17 May, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.

Beccaria, L. (2014). The mediating role of health promoting behaviours in university student coping: A comparison of on-campus and distance students and an extension of the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping. International Congress of Applied Psychology. 8 – 13th July, Paris, France.

Beccaria, L., Gorman, D., Harris, J., Dawson, R. (2009). Nursing Student's Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence. Presented at the Health in Transition: Researching for the Future, 4th International Conference on Community Health Nursing Research, 16-20 August, Adelaide.