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Dr Marion Tower
Dr

Marion Tower

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Overview

Background

Marion has several years teaching and learning and leadership experience in the higher education sector. She is also a Board Director for Metro South Hospital and Health Services and Chairs the Metro South Safety & Quality committee. She is also a Council member of a local school. Marion completed a Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) in Sydney and then worked across NSW, Vic and QLD with experience in critical care and acute medical surgical areas, specialising in cardiology and emergency nursing. She completed a Master of Nursing in Women’s Health through QUT and a PhD at Griffith University. Marion has broad experience is leading curriculum design, implementation and review and has been involved in numerous research projects around students’ experiences of university and supporting and assessing students’ learning. Her research interests include nurse education, the student experience of university, assessment of learning, supporting casual academic staff and clinical decision making in practice. Marion also supervises several PhD students across a range of interests and research methodologies.

Availability

Dr Marion Tower is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Masters (Coursework), Queensland University of Technology
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Griffith University

Research interests

  • Nurse education

  • Clinical decision-making

  • Student education

  • Curriculum development

  • Assessment of learning

  • Safety & quality in health care

Works

Search Professor Marion Tower’s works on UQ eSpace

48 works between 2006 and 2024

41 - 48 of 48 works

2012

Journal Article

Lecture Capture: first year student nurses' experiences of a web-based lecture technology

Cooke, Marie, Watson, Bernadette, Blacklock, Edward, Mansah, Martha, Howard, Matylda, Johnston, Amy, Tower, Marion and Murfield, Jenny (2012). Lecture Capture: first year student nurses' experiences of a web-based lecture technology. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 29 (3), 14-21.

Lecture Capture: first year student nurses' experiences of a web-based lecture technology

2012

Journal Article

Registered nurses' decision-making regarding documentation in patients' progress notes

Tower, Maron, Chaboyer, Wendy, Green, Quentine, Dyer, Kirsten and Wallis, Marianne (2012). Registered nurses' decision-making regarding documentation in patients' progress notes. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 21 (19-20), 2917-2929. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2012.04135.x

Registered nurses' decision-making regarding documentation in patients' progress notes

2012

Journal Article

Investigating patients' experiences: methodological usefulness of interpretive interactionism

Tower, Marion, Rowe, Jennifer and Wallis, Marianne (2012). Investigating patients' experiences: methodological usefulness of interpretive interactionism. Nurse Researcher, 20 (1), 39-44.

Investigating patients' experiences: methodological usefulness of interpretive interactionism

2011

Journal Article

Normalizing policies of inaction-The case of health care in Australia for women affected by domestic violence

Tower, Maron, Rowe, Jennifer and Wallis, Marianne (2011). Normalizing policies of inaction-The case of health care in Australia for women affected by domestic violence. Health Care for Women International, 32 (9), 855-868. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2011.580406

Normalizing policies of inaction-The case of health care in Australia for women affected by domestic violence

2007

Journal Article

Gentle interruptions: Transformative approaches to clinical teaching

McAllister, Margaret, Tower, Marion and Walker, Rachel (2007). Gentle interruptions: Transformative approaches to clinical teaching. Journal of Nursing Education, 46 (7), 304-312. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20070701-04

Gentle interruptions: Transformative approaches to clinical teaching

2007

Journal Article

Intimate partner violence and the health care response: a postmodern critique

Tower, Marion (2007). Intimate partner violence and the health care response: a postmodern critique. Health Care for Women International, 28 (5), 438-452. doi: 10.1080/07399330701226404

Intimate partner violence and the health care response: a postmodern critique

2006

Journal Article

Solution focused teaching: a transformative approach to teaching nursing

McAllister, Margaret, Venturato, Lorraine, Johnston, Amy, Rowe, Jennifer, Tower, Marion and Moyle, Wendy (2006). Solution focused teaching: a transformative approach to teaching nursing. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 3 (1) 5. doi: 10.2202/1548-923X.1190

Solution focused teaching: a transformative approach to teaching nursing

2006

Journal Article

Domestic violence, health & health care: women's accounts of their experiences

Rowe, J, Tower, M, McMurray, A and Wallis, M (2006). Domestic violence, health & health care: women's accounts of their experiences. Contemporary Nurse, 21 (2), 186-198.

Domestic violence, health & health care: women's accounts of their experiences

Funding

Past funding

  • 2019 - 2021
    Perceived effectiveness of the Nurse Practitioner service in Queensland South West Hospital and Health service (SWHHS)
    South West Hospital and Health Services
    Open grant

Supervision

Availability

Dr Marion Tower is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

Completed supervision

Media

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