ATH - Senior Lecturer
Overview
Frederick Graham (BNurs, PhD) is a Clinical Nurse Consultant and a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Health Services Research at the University of Queensland. As an academic-nurse, Fred is clinical lead of a hospital-wide Dementia and Delirium Nursing Service at Princess Alexandra Hospital where he has worked as clinical expert in the care of people with dementia and delirium for more than 15 years. As a senior research fellow under the mentorship of Professor Ruth Hubbard, his research focuses on reorganising care environments and building workforce capacity to provide therapeutic care to this vulnerable cohort with a specific focus on accelerating knowledge translation in managing symptoms of agitation through innovative experiential learning, models of care, environmental design, leisure activity, and recognition of pain-related symptomology.
Fred qualified as registered nurse from The Queensland University of Technology and has worked in acute-care wards at Princess Alexandra Hospital. He has clinically led multiple quality initiatives focussed on improving acute-care for patients with cognitive impairment including education and change champion initiatives, models of specialised care, resource development to facilitate person-centred care and development of a chart for evaluating analgesic trials through monitoring pain-related behaviour. These initiatives led Fred to undertake his PhD with Professor Elizabeth Beattie at QUT, titled “Do hospital nurses recognise pain in older agitated patients with cognitive impairment. A descriptive correlational study using virtual simulation.”, which was awarded QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award 2021. He has subsequently published his PhD results in the top gerontological and nursing journals in the world. Fred currently holds a Queensland Health Early Career Nursing Fellowship under the mentorship Professor Amanda Henderson, Nursing practice Development Unit PAH. He also has three Metro South Research Support Grant schemes including the Metro South Health Future Research Leader Fellowship under the mentorship of Professor Ruth Hubbard which will investigate pain-related phenotypes through a longitudinal response to treatment study.
As an emerging research leader and early career researcher, Fred is passionate teacher and encourages nurses to consider higher degree by research pathways in the clinical careers. He is currently supervising two higher research nursing students and a mentoring nurse practitioner student at UQ.
Publications
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Journal Article: Is There a Role for Medication in Managing Delirium with Dementia?
Sampson, Elizabeth L., Graham, Frederick and Teodorczuk, Andrew (2022). Is There a Role for Medication in Managing Delirium with Dementia?. Geriatrics, 7 (5) 114, 1-10. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics7050114
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Journal Article: Hospital nurses' management of agitation in older cognitively impaired patients: do they recognise pain-related agitation?
Graham, Frederick, Beattie, Elizabeth and Fielding, Elaine (2022). Hospital nurses' management of agitation in older cognitively impaired patients: do they recognise pain-related agitation?. Age and Ageing, 51 (7) afac140, 1-11. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac140
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Graham, Frederick, Fielding, Elaine and Beattie, Elizabeth (2022). The role of experiential knowledge in hospital nurses' management of pain-related agitation in people with dementia: An expert performance simulation study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 127 104160. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104160
Publications
Journal Article
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Is There a Role for Medication in Managing Delirium with Dementia?
Sampson, Elizabeth L., Graham, Frederick and Teodorczuk, Andrew (2022). Is There a Role for Medication in Managing Delirium with Dementia?. Geriatrics, 7 (5) 114, 1-10. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics7050114
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Graham, Frederick, Beattie, Elizabeth and Fielding, Elaine (2022). Hospital nurses' management of agitation in older cognitively impaired patients: do they recognise pain-related agitation?. Age and Ageing, 51 (7) afac140, 1-11. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac140
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Graham, Frederick, Fielding, Elaine and Beattie, Elizabeth (2022). The role of experiential knowledge in hospital nurses' management of pain-related agitation in people with dementia: An expert performance simulation study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 127 104160. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104160
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Mudge, Alison M., Young, Adrienne, McRae, Prue, Graham, Frederick, Whiting, Elizabeth and Hubbard, Ruth E. (2021). Qualitative analysis of challenges and enablers to providing age friendly hospital care in an Australian health system. BMC Geriatrics, 21 (1) 147, 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02098-w
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Graham, Frederick, Eaton, Emma, Jeffrey, Carol, Secher-Jorgensen, Heidi and Henderson, Amanda (2021). "Specialling" and "Sitters": What does communication between registered nurses and unregulated workers reveal about care?. Collegian, 28 (5), 482-488. doi: 10.1016/j.colegn.2020.12.004
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Martin‐Khan, Melinda, Bail, Kasia, Yates, Mark W., Thompson, Jane, Graham, Fred, Argo, Alison, Bail, Kasia, Caplan, Gideon, Craig, Denise, Cumming, Anne, Ellis, Stephanie, Flicker, Leon, Fox, Amanda, Frost, Dennis, Galstuch‐Leon, Jennifer, Graham, Frederick, Hosie, AnnMarie, Hughes, Juanita, Jack, Leanne, Lie, David, Magalhães, R. J. Soares, Miller, Elizabeth, Petrie, Glenys, Chrysanth Pulle, Ranjeev, Quinn, John, Redman, Bobby, Schnitker, Linda, Stirling, Christine, Strivens, Eddy ... Cognitive Impairment and COVID‐19, Hospital Care Guidance Committee (2020). Interim guidance for health‐care professionals and administrators providing hospital care to adult patients with cognitive impairment, in the context of COVID‐19 pandemic. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 39 (3), 283-286. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12831
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Travers, Catherine, Henderson, Amanda, Graham, Frederick and Beattie, Elizabeth (2018). CogChamps: impact of a project to educate nurses about delirium and improve the quality of care for hospitalized patients with cognitive impairment. BMC Health Services Research, 18 (1) 534. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3286-4
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Travers, Catherine, Henderson, Amanda, Graham, Fred and Beattie, Elizabeth (2017). Turning education into action: impact of a collective social education approach to improve nurses’ ability to recognize and accurately assess delirium in hospitalized older patients. Nurse Education Today, 62, 91-97. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.12.026
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CogChamps - A model of implementing evidence-based care in hospitals: Study protocol
Travers, Catherine, Graham, Frederick, Henderson, Amanda and Beattie, Elizabeth (2017). CogChamps - A model of implementing evidence-based care in hospitals: Study protocol. BMC Health Services Research, 17 (1) 202, 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12913-017-2136-0
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Advancing initiatives in care of cognitively impaired patients in acute care settings
Graham, Fred, Travers, Catherine, Beattie, Elizabeth and Henderson, Amanda (2016). Advancing initiatives in care of cognitively impaired patients in acute care settings. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, 23 (7), 36-36.
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A new frontier: improving nursing care for people with dementia and delirium in hospitals
Graham, Frederick (2015). A new frontier: improving nursing care for people with dementia and delirium in hospitals. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 45 (12), 589-591. doi: 10.1097/nna.0000000000000268
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Nayton, Kate, Fielding, Elaine, Brooks, Deborah, Graham, Frederick A. and Beattie, Elizabeth (2014). Development of an education program to improve care of patients with dementia in an acute care setting. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 45 (12), 552-558. doi: 10.3928/00220124-20141023-04
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Beattie, Elizabeth, Fielding, Elaine, O'Reilly, Maria, Graham, Fred and Neville, Christine (2013). Conference scene. Current dementia research in Australia: a report from the Alzheimer's Australia 15th National Conference. Neurodegenerative Disease Management, 3 (4), 317-320. doi: 10.2217/nmt.13.41
Conference Publication
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Toward the Older Person Friendly Hospital: barriers and enablers within the Australian context
Young, A., Mudge, A. M., McRae, P., Gray, L., Beattie, E., Graham, F., Whiting, E., Banks, M. and Hubbard, R. (2018). Toward the Older Person Friendly Hospital: barriers and enablers within the Australian context. Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Orlando, Florida, 3-5 May 2018. Malden, MA, United States: Wiley-Blackwell.
