Ms Melissa Bloomer - Researcher Profile

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School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University
Peninsula Campus, McMahons Road, Frankston Vic 3199, Australia

Biography

Melissa works in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University as a Lecturer.

Melissa brings 15 years of clinical experience to her role at Monash University.  Melissa's primary research interests relate to end of life care, death and dying in the acute care setting.  Melissa is particularly interested in how nurses manage death and dying in the clinical setting, caring for the dying patient and their family/loved ones.

Melissa is funded by three scholarships which enable her to complete here PhD on a full time basis.  Her PhD research aims to explore how nurses recognize that a patient is dying and then how nurses respond to the dying patient in the acute hospital setting, where the goal of care is cure and resuscitation.

 

Research & Supervision Interests

    End of Life Care

    Acute Hospital Care

    Palliative Care

    Intensive Care

    Care of the family

    Bereavement care

Keywords

End of life care, Intelligent databases, Intensive Care (ICU), Palliative Care, after-death care, qualitative research, attitude to death

Qualifications

MASTERS NURSING (HONOURS)
Institution: University of Sydney
Year awarded: 2010
MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Institution: Deakin University
Year awarded: 2009
MASTERS OF NURSING PRACTICE
Institution: Deakin University
Year awarded: 2008
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE DIABETES EDUCATION
Institution: Deakin University
Year awarded: 2002
BACHELOR OF NURSING
Institution: University of Western Sydney
Year awarded: 1994

Publications

Journal Articles

Tan, H., Digby, R., Bloomer, M., Wang, Y., O'Connor, M.M., 2013, Brief Report. End-of-life care in rehabilitation centre for older people in Australia, Australasian Journal on Ageing [P], vol E, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Australia, pp. 1-4.

Digby, R., Bloomer, M., 2013, People with dementia and the hospital environment: the view of patients and family carers, International Journal of Older People Nursing [E], vol In Press, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-9.

Bloomer, M., Endacott, R., O'Connor, M.M., Cross, W.M., 2013, The `dis-ease? of dying: Challenges in nursing care of the dying in the acute hospital setting. A qualitative observational study, Palliative Medicine [E], vol In Press, Sage Publictions, United Kingdom, pp. 1-8.

O'Brien, A., Bloomer, M., 2012, Aboriginal palliative care and mainstream services, Australian Nursing Journal [P], vol 20, issue 6, Australian Nursing Journal, Australia, p. 1.

Bloomer, M., Digby, R., 2012, Caring for patients dying with dementia: challenges in sub-acute care in Australia, Journal of Palliative Care [P], vol 28, issue 3, Journal of palliatie care, Centre de Recherche Institut Universitaire de G??riatrie de Montreal, pp. 164-168.

Bloomer, M., Cross, W.M., O'Connor, M.M., Endacott, R., 2012, Changing attitudes to death and dying in the clinical setting, NursingConnections [P], vol 15, issue 1, Royal College of Nursing Australia, Deakin ACT, pp. 32-33.

O'Brien, A., O'Connor, M., Griffiths, D., Bloomer, M., 2012, Development and measurement of palliative care cultural standards using clinical indicators, Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology [E], vol 8, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 3-9.

Shannon, M.K., Williams, A.F., Bloomer, M., 2012, Low-frequency ultrasound debridement (Sonoca-185) in acute wound management: a case study, Wound Practice & Research [P], vol 20, issue 4, Cambridge Publishing, Australia, pp. 1-6.

Bloomer, M., Tan, H., O'Connor, M., Digby, R., 2012, Managing terminal dementia, Australian Nursing Journal [P], vol 19, issue 9, Australian Nursing Federation, Silverwater NSW, pp. 36-37.

Bloomer, M., Morphet, J., O'Connor, M., Lee, S., Griffiths, D., 2012, Nursing care of the family before and after a death in the ICU - An exploratory study., Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses [P], vol epub, Elsevier, Singapore, pp. 1-8.

Bloomer, M., O'Brien, A.P., 2012, Palliative care for the person with a serious mental illness: The need for a partnership approach to care in Australia, Progress in Palliative Care [P], vol E, Maney Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 1-5.

Bloomer, M., O'Connor, M.M., 2012, Providing end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: issues that impact upon nurse professionalism, Singapore Nursing Journal [P], vol 39, issue 3, Singapore Nurse Association, Singapore, pp. 25-30.

Bloomer, M., Cross, W., Endacott, R., O'Connor, M., Moss, C., 2012, Qualitative observation in a clinical setting: Challenges at end of life, Nursing and Health Sciences [E], vol 14, issue 1, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 25-31.

Bloomer, M., Cross, W.M., 2012, Recognising dying in acute care, Australian Nursing Journal [P], vol 18, issue 7, The Australian Nursing Federation, Australia, p. 43.

Naik, A., O'Brien, A., Gaskin, C., Munro, I., Bloomer, M., 2012, The acceptability and efficacy of a group cognitive behavioural therapy programme in a community mental health setting, Community Mental Health Journal [E], vol E, Springer, United States, pp. 1-5.

Bloomer, M., Cross, W., 2011, An exploration of the role and scope of the clinical nurse consultant (CNC) in a metropolitan health service, Collegian: Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia [P], vol 18, issue 2, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 61-69.

Bloomer, M., Moss, C., Cross, W., 2011, End-of-life care in acute hospitals: An integrative literature review, Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness: An international interdisciplinary journal [E], vol 3, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., UK, pp. 165-173.

Liang, C., Yang, C., Lu, K., Chu, P., Chen, C., Chang, Y., O'Brien, A., Bloomer, M., Chou, K., 2011, Factors affecting peritoneal dialysis selection in Taiwanese patients with chronic kidney disease, International Nursing Review [P], vol 58, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 463-469.

Digby, R., Bloomer, M., Howard, T., 2011, Improving call bell response times, Nursing older people [P], vol 23, issue 6, R C N Publishing Co, UK, pp. 22-27.

Bloomer, M., Moss, C., Cross, W., 2011, Problems associated with care at the end of life in acute hospitals, End of Life Journal [E], vol 1, issue 1 (Online), St. Christopher's Hospice * Hospice Information, UK, pp. 1-7.

Digby, R., Moss, C., Bloomer, M., 2011, Transferring from an acute hospital and settling into a subacute facility: The experience of patients with dementia, International Journal of Older People Nursing [P], vol E, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 1-8.

Bennetts, W., Cross, W., Bloomer, M., 2011, Understanding consumer participation in mental health: Issues of power and change, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing [P], vol 20, issue 3, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 155-164.

Stuart, J.A., O'Connor, M.M., Peters, L.A., Bloomer, M., 2010, After-death care and the hidden role of palliative care nurses, End of Life Care [P], vol 4, issue 3, Healthcomm UK, UK, pp. 50-55.

O'Brien, A.P., Cross, W.M., Higgs, P., Munro, I., Bloomer, M., Chou, K., 2010, Australians living with and managing hepatitis C, Issues in Mental Health Nursing [P], vol 31, issue 8, Informa Healthcare, USA, pp. 520-524.

Bloomer, M., Lee, S.F., Tan, H., 2010, End of life care: The importance of advance care planning., Australian Family Physician [P], vol 39, issue 10, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Australia, pp. 734-737.

Bloomer, M., Lee, S., O'Connor, M., 2010, End of life clinician-family communication in ICU: A retrospective observational study - implications for nursing, Australian Journal Of Advanced Nursing [P], vol 28, issue 2, Australian Nursing Federation, Australia, pp. 17-23.

Bloomer, M., Tiruvoipati, R., Tsiripillis, M.A., Botha, J.A., 2010, End of life management of adult patients in an Australian metropolitan intensive care unit: A retrospective observational study, Australian critical care : official journal of the Confe..., vol 23, issue 1, Elsevier Inc., Australia, USA, pp. 13-19.

Cross, W.M., Bloomer, M., 2010, Extending boundaries: Clinical communication with culturally and linguistically diverse mental health clients and carers, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing [P], vol 19, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 268-277.

O'Connor, M.M., Watts, J.J., Bloomer, M., Larkins, K., 2010, Loss and grief in the workplace: What can we learn from the literature?, International Journal of Workplace Health Management [P], vol 3, issue 2, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 131-142.

Bloomer, M., Cross, W.M., Moss, C., 2010, The impact of death and dying on critical care nurses., Australian Nursing Journal [P], vol 18, issue 3, Australian Nursing Federation, Silverwater, NSW, p. 33.