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Dr Ya-Ling Huang

Dr Ya-Ling Huang
Name Ya-Ling Huang
Position Senior Lecturer (Nursing)
Section School of Nursing and Midwifery
Office i314
Location Ipswich Campus
Phone +61 7 3812 6330
Extension 6330
Email
Qualifications BNurs Fooyin , MNurs QUT , PhD QUT
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/z5yw7/dr-ya-ling-huang
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Biography

Dr. Ya-Ling Huang has her Masters and PhD in Nursing, and is a registered nurse in Australia and overseas. She is a teaching and research academic in School of Nursing and Midwifery at University of Southern Queensland. She is currently a visiting research fellow at the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service(GCHHS), an adjunct research fellow at the Griffith University and an adjunct senior lecturer at Southern Cross University.

Previously, She has worked in various clinical settings (acute and subacute care) and clinical research in tertiary hospitals. She has also worked at different universities for undergraduate and postgraduate education. She has engaged in a number of services. This includes but not limited to multicultural network, GCHHS; emerging research alliance, GCHHS; reviewer for peer-review journals; nursing and midwifery professional recognition program (NMPRP) portfolio reviewer and advisory group, GCHHS; Gold Coast Health Research Week Committee; mid-career research representative in faculty of health research committee and executive committee of health services, clinical & community research group at Southern Cross University.

Research Career


  • Palliative Care ( 420316 )
  • Sub-Acute Care ( 420506 )
  • Nursing ( 420500 )
  • Nursing not elsewhere classified ( 420599 )
  • Health Equity ( 420602 )
  • Acute Care ( 420501 )
  • Public Health ( 420600 )
  • Health Services And Systems ( 420300 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Multicultural ( 470212 )

Her research focus is in clinical research, nursing education and evidence-based practice. Specifically, the clinical research is relevant to vulnerable populations (older people; people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds), cultural and social influences, palliative care, end-of-life care, chronic conditions in acute care settings and emergency department.

She has previously worked as a research coordinator and clinical nurse researcher (emergency department) at the Gold Coast Health and has successfully mentored clinicians and nursing students in clinical research and published in peer-review journals. She is qualified as a Principal Supervisor for Higher Degree Research Candidates. She has supervised Master of Osteopathic Medicine Students towards completion of their research projects. She is currently supervising Higher Degree Research Students.

Teaching


Undergraduate Courses
NUR3398 Complex Care B
NUR3300 Clinical Inquiry and Evidence Based Practice

Postgraduate course
ANP6011 Clinical Leadership in Contemporary Health Care Practice
HSC6060 Research Project Design