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Rochelle Wynne
Rochelle Wynne, Professor
Grattan Street
Other Interests
The key theme in Rochelle's program of research is patient recovery trajectory. Investigating the recovery trajectory generates evidence to benchmark nursing practice and to identify points of variation in care. While many patients recover according to an expected trajectory, for some there are minor or major deviations in recovery. Rochelle has a keen interest in reducing unnecessary variation in patient recovery with a view to developing and testing interventions to optimise patient outcome. The aims of her program of research are to identify risk factors that influence recovery trajectory, to explore factors associated with variability in expected recovery pathways and to explore pre-emptive strategies to reduce variation in care.
Research
Rochelle has been an active clinical researcher in cardiothoracic patient care for over 2 decades with a particular interest in practice patterns in acute and critical care. Her work is primarily focused on the immediate postoperative management of cardiac surgical and lung cancer candidates and particular areas of interest include pulmonary dysfunction, pain, haemodynamic monitoring and thoracostomy tube management. Current and future research projects will investigate ways in which nursing practice is influenced by system, process or patient problems in terms of impact on patient safety, quality of care and the patient experience during their recovery trajectory. A quantitative researcher, Rochelle has expertise in logistic and multivariate regression, repeated measures, risk prediction modelling and propensity analyses.
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