Deanne August

Dr August's outcomes are integrated into a number of univeristy healthcare and expert settings desipte her early career status. For example, many of her PhD outcomes have been cited or incorperated into two international skin care gudielines (The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses and National Association of Neonatal Nurses, a statewide hospital based training program (Queensland Health's Transition to Practice), and the post graduate course for Neonatal Nursing (University of Tasmania). She has also lead a book chaper for Neonatal Skin Care in the Austarlian First Text Book for Neonatal Care practices (Neonatal Nursing in Australia and New Zealand: Principles for Practice 1st edition). Other examples of her impacts include - Facilitating neonatal MARSI evidence into practice: investigating multimedia resources with Australian Neonatal Nurses – a participatory action research project has had direct policy and practice impact, across neonatal health services. This research included the development of a clinical education resource and supplementary tutorials for neonatal medical adhesive removal to prevent injury and improve clinical practice. In addition her developement of the the Graduated colour tape measure: (development and demonstration in a case series of neonatal skin injuries and evaluation of the consistency of neonatal skin injury assessment using clinical images), has direct practice and knowledge impact. This research yielded insight into barriers of effective skin injury assessment in the neonatal intensive care and produced a novel, economic and clinically applicable tool to assist with neonatal skin injury assessment.