Professor Odette Best
Name | Odette Best |
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Position | Professor (Nursing) |
Section | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
Office | I419c |
Location | Ipswich Campus |
Phone | +61 7 3812 6280 |
Extension | 6280 |
Qualifications | BHlthSc Sydney , MPhil Griffith , PhD USQ |
Fields of Research (FoR)
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
( 210301)
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Nursing not elsewhere classified
( 111099)
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Biography
( 210304)
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Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History
( 450107)
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Nursing not elsewhere classified
( 420599)
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Biography
( 430303)
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Nursing
( 420500)
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Historical Studies
( 430300)
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Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Culture
( 450100)
Research interests
First Nations Health, First Nations Nurses and Midwives historiography, Cultural Safety, Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Professional memberships
Churchill Fellow
Fellow of the American Academy of Nurses
Fellow Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives
Member Australian College of Nurses
Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union
Industry affiliations
Board Member Catherine Freeman Foundation
Currently teaching courses/programs
NUR 3030 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
NUR 1120 - Health and Illness
HEA 8302 - Culture as a Determinant of Helath
Teaching experience(Tertiary)
17 Years
Administrative responsibilities
Associate Head - Indigenous Community Engagement and Research
Research most notable
First Editor and co-author: Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care. (2014, 2017) Cambridge Press.
Publications in ePrints
Best, Odette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-0101
and Ward, Raelene
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6248-7921 and Johnston, Elizabeth and Easton, Caitlin
(2020)
The research higher degree journey for Aboriginal students.
In:
Indigenous postgraduate education: intercultural perspectives.
Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives.
Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, United States, pp. 179-189.
ISBN 9781648021107
Best, Odette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-0101
and Carey, Melissa
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2392-173X and Rigg, Elizabeth
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2281-9749
(2019)
A mixed method case study: the preparedness of a school of nursing and midwifery in teaching mandated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health in undergraduate nursing curriculum.
In: National Nursing Forum 2019: Nursing Now - Power of Policy, 21-23 Aug 2019, Hobart, Tasmania.
Best, Odette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-0101
and Gorman, Don
(2016)
'Some of us pushed forward and let the world see what could be done': Aboriginal Australian nurses and midwives, 1900-2005.
Labour History: a Journal of Labour and Social History (111).
pp. 149-164.
ISSN 0023-6942
Best, Odette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-0101
and Grehan, Madonna
(2015)
Not domestic servants: Aboriginal Australian women as trained nurses and midwives 1900-1949.
In: 32nd Annual AAHN Nursing & Health Care History Conference, 17-20 Sep 2015, Dublin, Ireland.
Best, Odette
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-0101
(2015)
Training the ‘natives’ as nurses in Australia: so what went wrong?
In:
Colonial caring: a history of colonial and post-colonial nursing.
Nursing History and Humanities.
Manchester University Press, Manchester, MI, United States, pp. 104-125.
ISBN 9780719099700
Research supervisor in the area of:
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
( 210301)
-
Nursing not elsewhere classified
( 111099)
-
Biography
( 210304)
-
Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History
( 450107)
-
Nursing not elsewhere classified
( 420599)
-
Biography
( 430303)
-
Nursing
( 420500)
-
Historical Studies
( 430300)
-
Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Culture
( 450100)