From Idea to Project: Practical Tools for Time-Poor Emergency Nurses
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Concurrent Stream 1
| Friday, October 16, 2026 |
| 12:20 PM - 12:25 PM |
| Grand Ballroom 1 |
Overview
Geoffrey Melville
Speaker
Dr Geoffrey Melville
Senior Research Officer
NSW Health
From Idea to Project: Practical Tools for Time-Poor Emergency Nurses
12:20 PM - 12:25 PMBiography
Dr Geoffrey Melville, BAppSc, PhD, is a Senior Research Officer in the Critical Care Department at Wollongong Hospital, NSW. His research spans emergency care, implementation science, quality improvement, and health services evaluation, with experience across randomised controlled trials, clinical drug trials, mixed-methods studies, observational research, survey design, statistical analysis, and REDCap database development. His recent work has focused on emergency department systems, implementation and evaluation of evidence-informed models of care, and clinical documentation processes within electronic medical records. He is involved in HIRAID-related implementation research, including inpatient nursing documentation and scalable translation across health services. Dr Melville works closely with clinicians to develop, manage and deliver a portfolio of clinical research projects across ISLHD, with expertise across project management, research governance, ethics, finances, and manuscript development through to publication. Prior to his research career, he worked as an Exercise Physiologist and lectured in clinical rehabilitation at the University of Wollongong.