Rate My Professor Julia Morphet

Professor Julia Morphet serves as Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery in Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, a role she assumed in January 2023. Previously, she was Deputy Head of School from 2021 to 2022 and Director of Education from 2016 to 2021, following her appointment to the school in 2010. Before entering academia, Morphet accumulated over 15 years of experience as an emergency nurse and educator. Her academic qualifications include a PhD from Deakin University awarded in 2015 on transition to specialty practice programs in Australian emergency nursing, a Master of Nursing (Education) from Monash University in 2007 examining the impact of career development years on emergency nursing recruitment and retention, a Graduate Certificate in Health Professional Education from Monash in 2003, a Graduate Diploma in Emergency Nursing from Australian Catholic University in 2001, a Bachelor of Nursing from Monash in 1994, and a Graduate Diploma in Health Economics and Policy from Monash in 2018. As a Registered Nurse, her career integrates clinical expertise with leadership in nursing education.

Morphet’s research focuses on health workforce preparation and transition to practice, nursing education methods and outcomes, patient experiences in the emergency department, quality and safety in emergency care, emergency nursing workforce issues, and occupational violence in healthcare, utilizing mixed and quantitative methodologies. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and supervised more than 25 research higher degree students to completion. Key publications include “PREPARE—Empowering People Post Hip Fracture: A Conceptual Framework for a Nurse-Led Model of Care. Results of a Modified e-Delphi Study” (Allsop, Rawson, & Morphet, 2025, Journal of Clinical Nursing), “The heartache of living with failure: The experience of people with chronic heart failure” (Palmer, Bowles, & Morphet, 2023), and “An exploration of emergency nurses’ perceptions, attitudes and experience of teamwork in the emergency department” (Grover, Porter, & Morphet, 2017). She received the Julie Finucane OAM Medal for Leadership in Emergency Nursing in 2021, the highest honour from the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia, where she serves as Immediate Past President. Morphet has contributed to national policy as a member of Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care working groups and the National Clinical Evidence Taskforce Steering Committee, influencing emergency care standards and workforce development.