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Dr Nilufeur McKay

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: n.mckay@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4802-3941

Dr Nilufeur McKay is a Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator for the Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) course at Edith Cowan University, School of Nursing and Midwifery. As a Nurse Practitioner (NP), Nilufeur maintains an active clinical practice in the specialty of Cardiology.

Current Teaching

  • MNP6102 Pharmacology 1
  • MNP6103 Holistic Health Assessment
  • MNP6105 Pharmacology 2
  • MNP6106 Transition to Nurse Practitioner Practice
  • NSP6104 Nurse Practitioner Professional Practice 1
  • NSP6105 Nurse Practitioner Professional Practice 2

Background

Dr McKay has over 20 years nursing experience with 12 years working as a NP in the United States. Nilufeur started her career at Royal Perth Hospital, coronary care unit taking care of transplant and acute cardiac patients before moving to the United States in 2003. Nilufeur spent 7 years at Mayo Clinic as a NP on the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant service while completing her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA and was the Director of Nurse Practitioner clinical placement program at Mayo Clinic. This involved coordinating student placements across 13 different specialties.

Dr McKay then took a position at the University of California, San Diego as an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant NP before moving back home to Australia in 2020 and assumed the role of coordinator for the Nurse Practitioner course.

Professional Associations

  • Nursing Registration and Nurse Practitioner Endorsement, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
  • Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure, State of Arizona, USA
  • Australian College of Nurse Practitioners - Member and National Conference (2023) Scientific Co-Chair
  • Australian Nurse Practitioner Academic Collaborative Member (ANPAC)
  • Cardiac Society of Australian and New Zealand - Member and 2024 Conference Multidisciplinary Stream Co Lead
  • St John Ambulance WA Clinical Practice Committee Member
  • Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurse and Midwives - Member
  • ECU School of Nursing and Midwifery - Curriculum Teaching and Learning Committee Member
  • Academic Study Leave Committee (2023) Member
  • American Nursing Credentialing Centre Certification as an Adult Nurse Practitioner

Awards and Recognition

  • 2022 - ECU School of Nursing and Midwifery, Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2022 - ECU School of Nursing and Midwifery, Teaching and Learning internal Grant $5000
  • 2021 - PebblePad Innovation Grant - $500
  • 2011 - Mayo Clinic Bronze Quality Fellow

Research Areas and Interests

  • Acute and chronic heart failure and prevention of hospital readmissions.
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning in nursing education.
  • Advancing nursing leadership as a mechanism to improving patient outcomes.

Qualifications

  • Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Edith Cowan University, 2022.
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice, United States of America, 2014.
  • Master of Science Nursing, United States of America, 2008.
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Curtin University of Technology, 2000.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • McCullough, K., Baker, M., Bloxsome, D., Crevacore, C., Davies, H., Doleman, G., Gray, M., McKay, N., Palamara, P., Richards, G., Saunders, R., Barnard, M., Coventry, L. (2023). Clinical deterioration as a nurse sensitive indicator in the out-of-hospital context: A scoping review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2023(Article in press), 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16925.

Research Projects

  • Improving communication to enhance patients’ health literacy, empowerment & self-management of heart failure , Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation, Grant, 2023 ‑ 2026, $178,016.
  • Evaluation of a Virtual Home Health Heart Failure Program , Ramsay Connect, Grant, 2022 ‑ 2023, $56,861.

Research Student Supervision

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