Dr Anthony G Tuckett RN, Dip App Sc (Nautical) (AMC), BN (ACU), Post Grad Dip Phil (UQ), MA (Research) (QUT), PhD (QUT)

Anthony Tuckett spent the first 5 years of his professional life as a navigator. He holds a second-mates foreign-going certificate (merchant navy), is a foundation graduate of the Australian Maritime College (Launceston, TAS) and has shipped a range of bulk and boxed cargoes around the Australian coast, across the Pacific, up and down the West Coast of the USA and North America, through Malaysia and into Indonesia. In 1989-90, he spent 6 weeks in the back of a truck travelling from Nairobi to Harare.

Dr Tuckett is an RN, Senior Lecturer and the inaugural Year 3 Courses Coordinator and International Coordinator (Academic), Faculty of Health Sciences, UQ, School of Nursing & Midwifery. He was formally trained as a Registered Nurse (1985-1988) at the Princess Alexandra Hospital where until very recently he was situated in the UQ School of Nursing (2005-2008). He currently conducts research from The University of Queensland and Blue Care Research and Practice Development Centre where he is also the Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Community Care (ACEBCC) - a collaborating centre for the JBI.

He has 16 years experience in the tertiary education of, and curriculum development for nurses, having commenced his academic career at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) in 1992. During his time at ACU he was Lecturer-in-Charge of Health Care Ethics and Clinical Skills, taught across all three undergraduate years, taught Health Care Ethics at Masters level, gained a BN, PostGrad.Dip. (Philosophy)[UQ], a Masters degree by research [QUT] and a Doctor of Philosophy [QUT]. Since his UQ appointment in 2005, Dr Tuckett has consistently and effectively applied his considerable curriculum experience and expertise within the Bachelor of Nursing program.

Dr Tuckett’s 2004 PhD (Public Health) titled Truth-telling in aged care: a qualitative study, has generated 12 refereed journal articles. Dr Tuckett has since expanded his interest in aged care research to incorporate relevant themes which address large scale, multidisciplinary, problem solving research. His research interests include aged-care/workforce and workplace and aged-care/caring. The former evidenced by a number of manuscripts stemming from the completed commissioned 2007 QNU ‘Your Work, Your Time, Your Life’ Study and the later for which he received a 2007 UQ Early Career Researcher (ECR) Grant and is now a completed sub-study of the Nurses & Midwives e-cohort study (www.e-cohort.net) generating additional manuscripts.

In partnership with others, since 2006, he has completed funded and commissioned research ($385 117). With over twenty publications – notably in the area of truth-telling, he has an additional 14 publications either currently under review, accepted or in-progress within journals including Journal of Advanced Nursing, Australian Journal of Rural Health, Social Science and Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Nursing. Based on his 1998-2008 publications, Dr Tuckett has a rising h-index 6 and a g-index 9. On invitation, he recently presented a profile of his research at the Hartford Centre of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing.

Dr Tuckett was instrumental in the negotiation of entrée, data management, collection and preliminary analysis for three of the Queensland sites for the 2007 ‘National Evaluation of the Open Disclosure Standard’ (ACQSHC $158 282) and is expected to oversee the Queensland part of the 2008 ‘Open Disclosure Research and Indicator Development, including the ‘100 Patient Stories Project’’. He will also contribute to interviewing and interview data analysis (ACQSHC $339 003/2years).

He is the 2001 Doctoral Fellow, Centaur Memorial Fund for Nurses and in 2004-2005 was an Honorary Fellow, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, QUT. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Expert Panel, Queensland Nursing Council, conducting oral examination of Registered Nurses as a condition of re-registration following disciplinary action by Council.