Rate My Professor Ashley Kable

Professor Ashley Kable is an Honorary Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Newcastle, Faculty of Health and Medicine. She earned her PhD from the University of Newcastle in 2004 with a thesis on the measurement and prevention of adverse events in high-volume elective surgical procedural groups in an acute hospital setting. Additional qualifications include a Graduate Diploma in Health Service Management from the University of Newcastle, a Diploma of Teaching (Nursing) from Sydney College of Advanced Education, and registration as a nurse with the Queensland Nurses Registration Board. Her career at the University of Newcastle spans several roles: Associate Professor from 2011 to 2017, Senior Lecturer from 2007 to 2011, Lecturer from 2005 to 2007, and Associate Lecturer from 1994 to 1999 in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and previously the School of Medicine and Public Health. She has directed the University of Newcastle Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare Informing Research, a Joanna Briggs Institute Collaborating Centre, since 2009, and served as Deputy Head of School (Research) and Research Higher Degree Program Coordinator from 2008 to 2016.

Professor Kable's research focuses on health services research and safety in health care in acute care settings and health care transitions. Key areas include adverse events in surgical admissions and post-discharge complications, interventions to reduce adverse events, sharps and needlestick injuries in nurses, occupational rehabilitation of nurses, resistance to care episodes, transitional care for people with cognitive impairment such as dementia and stroke survivors, and medication safety for people with dementia. She employs quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, including intervention studies, patient and workforce surveys, focus groups, and expert panels. Awards include the 2015 Faculty of Health and Medicine Research Supervision Award, 2011 Equity Research Fellowship, 2008 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women, and 2002 Peter Reizenstein Prize for the best paper in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. Notable publications encompass 'Satisfaction with asynchronous e-learning: An exploratory factor analysis of the Learner Satisfaction with Asynchronous e-Learning (LSAeL) instrument' (2024, Nurse Education in Practice), 'Evaluation of the Effect of a Safe Medication Strategy on Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Polypharmacy and Anticholinergic Burden for People with Dementia' (2023, Healthcare), 'Does telehealth influence the decision to transfer residents of residential aged care facilities to emergency departments?' (2023, International Journal of Older People Nursing), and earlier works such as 'Predictors of adverse events in surgical admissions in Australia' (2008, International Journal for Quality in Health Care). Her contributions have helped elevate the University of Newcastle's research quality to well above world standard.