• Biography/ Background

  I am the Deputy Dean International for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. This role encompasses leading the international portfolio for health and medical sciences. I am also the academic lead for Learning and Teaching as well as the Internationalisation Lead at the Adelaide Nursing School. I am a mental health nurse with a clinical background in child and adolescent mental health and community health. My main areas of practice have been infant, child and adolescent mental health and community health. Prior to joining the University in 2009, I spent many years working as a senior clinician in both the public and private health sectors as well as in the United Kingdom. In the health sector, I also worked in education and management roles. Currently I am a practitioner member of the Nursing and Midwifery Board – South Australia and have been involved in nursing regulation and accreditation since 2001. My research interests are professional identity, regulation of disciplines and scope of practice. I have supervised PhD and Master of Nursing students from a diverse range of cultural and international backgrounds.

• Qualifications

  • Registered Nurse
  • Mental Health Nurse (credentialed) 
  • Bachelor of Nursing (Flinders University) 
  • Grad Cert Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nursing (Flinders University)
  • Grad Dip Psychological Studies (Deakin University)
  • Master of Nursing (Flinders University) 
  • PhD (Flinders University)

• Teaching Interests

  • Perinatal, child and adolescent mental health
  • Ethics and the law
  • Community health

  Program Coordination

  • Master of Nursing Science Program
    

   

  Course Coordinator:

  • Research Dissertation Part a
  • Research Dissertation Part b
  • Research Dissertation Part c
  • Research Dissertation Part d
  • International Issues in Nursing Service Delivery
  • Research Literacy
  • Professional Practice
  • Management of Chronic Illness
    

   

• Research Interests

  • Professional Identity
  • Tacit Knowledge
    
  • Nursing practice parameters
  • Role development in nursing
  • Nursing knowledge
  • Child and adolescent mental health nursing

   

  Postgraduate research supervision

  Currently supervising Masters students in the following areas, perinatal mental health, palliative care, mental health ethnographies of acute in-patient, units, child and adolescent mental health, the role of paramedics in psychiatric cases, suicide and risk assessment.

  PhD students in the following areas mental health, yoga and mindfulness and ADHD and paediatric clinics.

• Publications

  Conference Presentations

  Rasmussen, P., Muir-Cochrane, E., & Henderson, A. (2011). An analysis of the work of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurses on an inpatient unit. Paper presented at the 37th International Conference of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, Gold Coast, Queensland, 4-7 October.

  Rasmussen, P., Muir-Cochrane, E., & Henderson, A. (2012). A holistic conceptual framework for the work of child and adolescent mental health nurses on an inpatient unit in Australia. Paper presented at the Horatio: European Festival of Psychiatric Nursing, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-23 September 2012.

  Rasmussen, P., Muir-Cochrane, E., & Henderson, A. (2013). A developmental approach to becoming a child and adolescent mental health nurse on an inpatent unit in Australia. Paper presented at the Inaugral Australian College of Mental Health Nurses International Research Symposium, 19 April 2013.

  Rasmussen, P. (2014). Identifying the scope of practice in nursing sub-specialties using child and adolescent mental health as an illustration. Paper presented at the Royal College of Nursing Annual International Research Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 2-4 April 2014.

• Professional Associations

  Member of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses

  Australian College of Mental Health Nurses reviewer of credentialing applications

  Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council assessor

• Community Engagement

  • Reviewer Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
  • Reviewer International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
  • Australian College of Mental Health Nurses reviewer of credentialing applications
  • Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council assessor
  • Reviewer The Australian Journal of Nursing Practice, Scholarship and Research
  • Reviewer Nursing and Health Sciences Journal
    

Entry last updated: Friday, 18 Aug 2023

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