Assoc Prof Nicholas Ralph

Fields of Research (FoR)

• Oncology and Carcinogenesis ( 111200 )
  

• Public Health and Health Services ( 111700 )
  

• Nursing ( 111000 )
  

Research interests
Cancer survivorship, Prostate Cancer, Men's Health

Professional memberships
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence - Prostate Cancer Survivorship
Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP)
Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group (POCOG)

Industry affiliations
Senior Manager (Health Systems & Psycho-Oncology) - Cancer Council Queensland (2018-2020)

USQ Research affiliations

• Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  

• Centre for Health, Informatics and Economic Research (CHIER)
  

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
10 Years

Research most recent
Ralph, N., Ng, S. K., Zajdlewicz, L., Lepore, S. J., Heathcote, P., Kneebone, A., & Chambers, S. K. (2019). Ten-year quality of life outcomes in men with prostate cancer. Psycho-oncology, 29, 2.

Ralph, N., Green, A., Sara, S., McDonald, S., Norris, P., Terry, V., ... & Chambers, S. K. (2020). Prostate cancer survivorship priorities for men and their partners: Delphi consensus from a nurse specialist cohort. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(1-2), 265-273.

Dunn, J., Ralph, N., Green, A., Frydenberg, M., & Chambers, S. K. Contemporary consumer perspectives on prostate cancer survivorship: Fifty voices. Psycho-Oncology. 29(3), 557-563

Research most notable
Ralph, N., Ng, S. K., Zajdlewicz, L., Lepore, S. J., Heathcote, P., Kneebone, A., & Chambers, S. K. (2019). Ten-year quality of life outcomes in men with prostate cancer. Psycho-oncology, 29, 2.

Dunn, J., Ralph, N., Green, A., Frydenberg, M., & Chambers, S. K. Contemporary consumer perspectives on prostate cancer survivorship: Fifty voices. Psycho-Oncology. 29(3), 557-563

Crawford-Williams, F., March, S., Goodwin, B. C., Ralph, N., Galvao, D. A., Newton, R. U., Chambers, S.K. & Dunn, J. (2018). Interventions for prostate cancer survivorship: A systematic review of reviews. Psycho-Oncology, 27(10), 2339-2348.

Dasgupta, P., Baade, P. D., Aitken, J. F., Ralph, N., Chambers, S. K., & Dunn, J. (2019). Geographical variations in prostate cancer outcomes: a systematic review of international evidence. Frontiers in Oncology, 9, 238.

Publications in ePrints

Ralph, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-9996 and Green, Anna and Sara, Sally and McDonald, Suzanne and Norris, Philip and Terry, Victoria and Dunn, Jeffrey C. and Chambers, Suzanne K. (2020) Prostate cancer survivorship priorities for men and their partners: Delphi consensus from a nurse specialist cohort. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29 (1-2). pp. 265-273. ISSN 0962-1067

Chambers, Suzanne K. and Galvao, Daniel A. and Green, Anna and Lazenby, Mark and Newton, Robert U. and Oliffe, John L. and Phillips, Jane L. and Phillips, Rachel and Ralph, NicholasORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-9996 and Sara, Sally and Heathcote, Peter and Dunn, Jeff (2019) A psychosocial care model for men with prostate cancer. Other monograph. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia , Sydney, Australia. [Report]

Ralph, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-9996 and Gow, Jeffrey and Conway, Aaron and Duff, Jed and Edward, Karen-Leigh and Alexander, Kim and Brauer, Anselm (2019) Costs of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia in Australia: a cost-of-illness study. Collegian. ISSN 1322-7696

Ralph, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-9996 (2019) Editorial: the value of a perioperative nurse. Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 32 (2). pp. 3-4. ISSN 2209-1084

Chambers, Suzanne K. and Occhipinti, Stefano and Stiller, Anna and Zajdlewicz, Leah and Nielsen, Lisa and Wittman, Daniela and Oliffe, John L. and Ralph, NicholasORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7404-9996 and Dunn, Jeff (2019) Five‐year outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of a couples‐based intervention for men with localised prostate cancer. Psycho-Oncology, 28 (4). pp. 775-783. ISSN 1057-9249

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Nicholas Ralph is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing & Midwifery and the Research Theme Leader for Cancer Survivorship at the Centre for Health Research at the University of Southern Queensland. His research interests are centred on improving the health outcomes of cancer survivors, men's health outcomes and addressing regional disparities in health outcomes. As a Registered Nurse and leader in nursing, he is a previous winner of Australian Nurse of the Year (2012) for innovation and has served in key roles such as Editor for Collegian and Editor in Chief for the Journal of Perioperative Nursing. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Perioperative Nursing from 2017-2019, worked as Senior Research Fellow at St Vincent¿s Hospital, Toowoomba, was the joint USQ/CCQ Senior Manager for Health Systems & Psycho-Oncology at the Cancer Council Queensland, and is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council¿s Centre for Research Excellence in Prostate Cancer Survivorship. He is also the Nursing Theme lead for the International Collaborative Network (ICN) for N-of-1 Clinical Trials and Single-Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs). Dr Ralph has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, co-authored three textbooks and has published in leading nursing and health journals such as the International Journal of Nursing Studies, the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Psycho-oncology and the Journal of Clinical Nursing. He has attracted over $1 million dollars in research and project funding to date with his research outcomes being translated into policy and practice in the areas of surgical care and prostate cancer.