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Professor Janie Brown serves as Professor in the Curtin School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. A registered nurse since 1989, she holds a PhD focused on the scholarship of learning and teaching, Master of Education (Adult), Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Diploma in Adult Education and Training, Diploma of Applied Science (Nursing), and Intensive Care Nursing Certificate. Her career includes roles as Course Coordinator for the Master of Nursing Practice at Curtin University from January 2016 to July 2024, and Director of Practice Based Learning at Southern Cross University School of Health and Human Sciences from February 2004 to July 2011, where she oversaw simulation laboratory development, clinical placements, and curriculum for nursing, midwifery, and occupational therapy programs. Currently, she is Senior Research Fellow at St John of God Midland Hospital, Lead of the International Consortium on Occupational Resilience (ICOR), and Director of the JBI Evidence Informed Health Care Curtin University, a centre established in 1997 that conducts systematic reviews, evidence syntheses, and knowledge translation for clinical practice in partnership with hospitals like Royal Perth Hospital.
Brown's research interests centre on nursing leadership, workforce resilience, compassion fatigue, simulation facilitation in low-resource settings, palliative care needs and provision, documentation burden in nursing and midwifery, mental health nursing wellbeing, and evidence-informed health practice. Key publications include 'Reducing documentation burden to improve nurse and midwife satisfaction: A mixed-methods study' (2025), 'Negotiating the Unknown: Lessons Learned From Australian Healthcare Professionals Working Through the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2026), 'A Scoping Review of Instruments Used to Measure Resilience in Samples of Nurses' (2025), 'A Point Prevalence Study of Need and Provision of Palliative Care in Adult and Medical Surgical Inpatients' (2025), 'A competency framework for simulation facilitation in low-resource settings: a modified Delphi study' (2024), and 'Development and content validation of the Burden of Documentation Scale' (2020). She is an Executive Fellow of the Curtin Academy, recognizing her contributions to innovation and scholarship in learning and teaching, and received the Excellence in Research award at the 2015 WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards as Nursing and Midwifery Research Coordinator at St John of God Hospital Subiaco and Curtin University.
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