Doctor Rebecca O'Reilly

Adjunct Associate Professor,
Dean's Unit - School of Nursing and Midwifery

Senior Lecturer,
School of Nursing and Midwifery

Biography
Contact
Publications
Projects
Supervision
Teaching

Biography

Dr Rebecca O'Reilly has been a Registered Nurse since 1993 and a Registered Midwife since 1998. During her nursing career Rebecca has accrued expertise in a number of clinical areas including substantial experience in the area of community nursing, high dependency burns and trauma, maternity and general medical –surgical nursing. As a Generalist Community Nurse Rebecca gained significant expertise in primary health care in the areas of home nursing, palliative care, school screening, health promotion, wound care and early childhood development.

Rebecca has over 18 years of experience as an academic, teaching undergraduate nursing students in community nursing, family and adolescent health, primary health care, research and medical-surgical nursing. As an academic Rebecca has coordinated multi-campus units, was the Academic Course Advisor (ACA) for the Bachelor of Nursing Advanced course for 3 years, ACA for the Bachelor of Nursing Parramtta Campus Students for 1 year and the Director of Academic Programs, Undergraduate for 3 years in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Rebecca graduated with her Master of Clinical Nursing in 2007 and PhD in 2012. The title of the PhD thesis is ‘A Family Focused Approach to Promote Child Protection: What Child Protection Workers Do and Experience". Rebecca has a number of publications in women's and family health, domestic violence and primary health care. Rebecca has authored a book chapter in the textbook titled "An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care in Australia".

With a passion for advancing women's and family health, Rebecca has pursued research in this area. In 2006-2008 Rebecca was the principle researcher in a granted research project titled "Women's experiences of recovery from childbirth". In 2015 Rebecca is the principle researcher in a granted research project titled "Opportunistic Screening for Domestic Violence by Community Health Care Providers for Peri-natal Women." Rebecca continues to lead and participate in research in this area. Rebecca is also a higher degree research supervisor of Masters Honours and PhD students.

Rebecca is a peer reviewer for a number of national and international companies and journals such as Cambridge University Press, Elsevier Australia, Midwifery Journal, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology Journal and Child Abuse Review.

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Qualifications

PhD University of Western Sydney
MClinNurs Charles Sturt University
GDipMidwifery University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
BHlthScNurs University of Western Sydney,Nepean
DipHlthScNurs University of Western Sydney,Nepean

Professional Memberships

THRI (2019)
Australian College of Nursing (2018)

Interests

Domestic Violence
Primary Health Care
Womens and family health

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Dean's Unit - School of Nursing and Midwifery
School of Nursing and Midwifery

Contact

Email:	re.oreilly@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:	(02) 9685 9490
Mobile:
Location:	EB.LG.36 Parramatta

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

400803 Research in Nursing Practice, 2020
400836 Health Promotion: A Primary Health Care Approach, 2011
400836 Health Promotion: A Primary Health Care Approach, 2012
401001 Primary Health Care in Action, 2014
401001 Primary Health Care in Action, 2015
401005 Human Relationships and Life Transitions, 2014
401011 Research Principles for Nursing and Midwifery, 2014
401011 Research Principles for Nursing and Midwifery, 2015
401011 Research Principles for Nursing and Midwifery, 2019
401011 Research Principles for Nursing and Midwifery, 2020
401022 Leadership in Nursing and Midwifery, 2019
401023 Research Principles for Nursing (Advanced), 2014
401023 Research Principles for Nursing (Advanced), 2019
401023 Research Principles for Nursing (Advanced), 2020
401225 Psychosocial Issues in the Perinatal Period, 2020

Publications

Chapters in Books

O'Reilly, R., Jarvis, L. and Guzys, D. (2014), 'Primary health care and health care reform', An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care, Cambridge University Press 9781107633094.

Journal Articles

Usanov, C., Keedle, H., Peters, K. and O'Reilly, R. (2023), 'Exploration of barriers to screening for domestic violence in the perinatal period using an ecological framework', Journal of Advanced Nursing, vol 79, no 4 , pp 1437 - 1450.
Christensen, M., Metcalfe, L. and O'Reilly, R. (2021), 'Emergency department nurses experiences of female domestic violence presentations : a review of the qualitative literature', Nursing Forum, vol 56, no 4 , pp 925 - 937.
Lewis, P., Hunt, L., Ramjan, L., Daly, M., O'Reilly, R. and Salamonson, Y. (2020), 'Factors contributing to undergraduate nursing students' satisfaction with a video assessment of clinical skills', Nurse Education Today, vol 84 .
O'Reilly, R., Ramjan, L., Fatayer, M., Stunden, A. and Gregory, L. (2020), 'First year undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of the effectiveness of blended learning approaches for nursing numeracy', Nurse Education in Practice, vol 45 .
Hunt, L., Ramjan, L., Daly, M., Lewis, P., O'Reilly, R., Willis, S. and Salamonson, Y. (2020), 'Development and psychometric testing of the 10-item satisfaction with Nursing Skill Examination : Objective Structured Clinical Assessment scale', Nurse Education in Practice, vol 45 .
McNally, S., McNally, T., Hatcher, D., O'Reilly, R. and Keedle, H. (2019), 'Student perceptions, experiences and support within their current Bachelor of Nursing', Nurse Education Today, vol 76 , pp 56 - 61.
Gregory, L., Villarosa, A., Ramjan, L., Hughes, M., O'Reilly, R., Stunden, A., Daly, M., Raymond, D., Fatayer, M. and Salamonson, Y. (2019), 'The influence of mathematics self-efficacy on numeracy performance in first-year nursing students : a quasi-experimental study', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol 28, no 19-20 , pp 3651 - 3659.
McDermid, F., McNally, S. and O'Reilly, R. (2019), 'Maintaining clinical currency : a risk management strategy for undergraduate nursing students', Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, vol 26, no 8 , pp 54 - 54.
O'Reilly, R. and Peters, K. (2018), 'Opportunistic domestic violence screening for pregnant and post-partum women by community based health care providers', BMC Women's Health, vol 18 .
Meller, N., Blythe, S., McNally, S., Glew, P., Hughes, M. and O'Reilly, R. (2017), 'New graduate job applications and interviews : the role of higher education facilities for student nurses and midwives', Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, vol 25, no 2 , pp 36 - 36.
O'Reilly, R., Wilkes, L., Luck, L. and Jackson, D. (2014), 'Being parents and workers : qualitative insights from child protection workers', Child Abuse Review, vol 23, no 5 , pp 311 - 323.
O'Reilly, R., Luck, L., Wilkes, L. and Jackson, D. (2011), 'Child protection workers: What they do', International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, vol 5, no 1 , pp 122 - 138.
O'Reilly, R., Wilkes, L., Luck, L. and Jackson, D. (2010), 'The efficacy of family support and family preservation services on reducing child abuse and neglect: what the literature reveals', Journal of Child Health Care, vol 14, no 1 , pp 82 - 94.
O'Reilly, R., Beale, B. and Gillies, D. (2010), 'Screening and intervention for domestic violence during pregnancy care : a systematic review', Trauma, Violence and Abuse, vol 11, no 4 , pp 190 - 201.
O'Reilly, R., Peters, K., Beale, B. and Jackson, D. (2009), 'Women's experiences of recovery from childbirth : focus on pelvis problems that extend beyond the puerperium', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol 18, no 14 , pp 2013 - 2019.
Andrew, S., Salamonson, Y., Weaver, R., Smith, A., O'Reilly, R. and Taylor, C. (2008), 'Hate the course or hate to go : semester differences in first year nursing attrition', Nurse Education Today, vol 28, no 7 , pp 865 - 872.
O'Reilly, R. (2007), 'Domestic violence against women in their childbearing years : a review of the literature', Contemporary Nurse, vol 25, no 1-2 , pp 13 - 21.
Reid, J., O'Reilly, R., Beale, B., Gillies, D. and O'Connell, T. (2007), 'Research priorities of NSW Midwives', Women and Birth, vol 20, no 2 , pp 57 - 63.
Firtko, A., O'Reilly, R. and Knox, N. (2005), 'Understanding mentorship and preceptorship: Clarifying the quagmire', Contemporary Nurse, vol 19 , pp 32 - 40.

Other Publications

2018, 'Tackling Maternal Anxiety in the Perinatal Period: Reconceptualising Mothering Narratives', Report

Dr Rebecca O'Reilly has a passion for advancing women's and family health. The title of her PhD thesis is "A Family Focused Approach to Promote Child Protection: What Child Protection Workers Do and Experience" from which Rebecca has numerous publications. Other areas Rebecca has published in are tertiary education, primary health care and domestic violence. In 2006-2008 Rebecca was the principle researcher in a granted research project titled "Women's experiences of recovery from childbirth". In 2015 Rebecca is the principle researcher in a granted research project titled "Opportunistic Screening for Domestic Violence by Community Health Care Providers for Peri-natal Women." Rebecca is also a higher degree research supervisor of a Masters Honours student and 2 PhD students. Rebecca is a peer reviewer for a number of national and international companies and journals such as Cambridge University Press, Elsevier Australia, Midwifery Journal, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology Journal and Child Abuse Review.