Associate Professor Blake Peck
Adjunct Associate Professor
Campus
Biography
Dr Blake Peck’s key focus is on finding ever better ways to understand and improve the lives of children and their families.
Dr Peck is currently involved in a number of projects in the area of childhood injury and safety awareness, asthma management and decision making amongst rural children, and improving the management of incontinence in children. Blake is also working with a number of international collaborators on a series of projects that seek to better understand how much young children understand about their long-term illness and how to manage it.
Blake is supervising higher degree students undertaking projects in paediatric health and wellbeing.
Blake came to academia from a background in paediatric clinical nursing practice. Through his PhD, he focused on developing a new theoretical model for qualitative research termed Hermeneutic Constructivism, a theoretical position that is well suited to understanding the nuanced lives of children.
Fields of research
- Nursing not elsewhere classified
- Nursing workforce
- Injury prevention
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- Publications
Exploring the Development of Early Career Nurses: Insights 4 Years After Graduation
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jan.16987
Critical care nurses' lived experience of compassion fatigue in the intensive care unit: A phenomenological study
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.aucc.2025.101460
Multi-Strain Probiotic and Common Infections in Early Childhood Education Settings: A Randomised Controlled Trial
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jpc.70295
Probiotics and developmental progression in healthy preschool-aged children: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/1028415X.2026.2617360
Barriers, Benefits, and Enablers of Acute Home-Based Care (Hospital In The Home) in Australia for Older People: A Systematic Review
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/10848223241252931
Understanding developmental progress in young children: Exploring demographic and dietary influences through a cross-sectional study
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2024.106152
Mapping Hospital in the Home Models of Care: A Systematic Review
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jan.16639
'It's only a matter of time' - Lessons learnt and recommendations from COVID-19 to inform emergency nursing for future pandemics: An integrated literature review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.auec.2024.10.004
A Little Boat Flopping About on the Ocean: The Lived Experience of Transitioning Early Career Nurses
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- DOI reference: 10.1002/nop2.70202
Nurturing Resilience and Healing from Within: The Impact of an 8-Week Yoga Program on Nursing Students
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/healthcare13070767
Navigating a nursing career four years after graduation: A qualitative descriptive study exploring drivers of staying amid wanting to leave
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nepr.2025.104360
Parental decision-making for non-urgent emergency department presentations in Victoria, Australia
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/13674935251347759
The Impact of Thriving at Work and Occupational Supports: Early Career Nurse Intentions to Leave an Organisation and Profession
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jan.16817
Embracing Growth, Adaptability, Challenges, and Lifelong Learning: A Qualitative Study Examining the Lived Experience of Early Career Nurses
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/nursrep15060214
Learning for Success Through Grow Your Grit: A Qualitative Descriptive Study Examining Self-Reflections Among First Year Nursing Students
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- DOI reference: 10.1155/ppc/2296255
Rural Nursing Workforce Sustainability in Australia: A Scoping Review of Global Retention Strategies
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/ajr.70079
Nursing Students' Grit and Psychological Capital After Crises: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study
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- DOI reference: 10.3928/01484834-20250415-05
Supporting Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing Among Nursing Students Through Yoga: A Mixed-Methods Study
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/nursrep15080305
Exploring Students' Reasons to Pursue Nursing: Unveiling the Call to Care
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- DOI reference: 10.3928/01484834-20250314-02
What's Said and Done: Nurse's Experiences of the Implementation of Patient Centred Care—An Australian Lived Experience
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/scs.70158
Student success strategies: Approaches to navigating and understanding the determinants of health outside the classroom
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/14703297.2023.2283127
The experience of methamphetamine use disorder and the negative consequences of relapse–a qualitative study
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/10550887.2023.2165870
Understanding rural pharmacists' perspectives: lived experiences and insights associated with rural recruitment and retention
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- DOI reference: 10.22605/RRH8687
Yoga in schools that contributes to a positive classroom atmosphere for young children and educators: a PRISMA scoping review
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- DOI reference: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1352780
This Bloke Who Helps Me With My Tractor, He's Been the Best Psychologist: The Experience of Seeking Mental Health Support in Rural Australia
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/15579883241249103
"I Don't Really Wanna Go Back. I Know What Ive Got in Front of Me". Lived Experiences of Emergency Nurses 2 Years Into the Global COVID-19 Pandemic
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jen.2023.11.011
The threshold of rural placement frequency and duration: A repeated cross-sectional study examining rural career aspirations among student nurses
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nepr.2024.103989
Yoga as a Contemplative Practice and Its Contribution to Participatory Self-Knowledge and Student Retention: A Scoping Review of the First-Year Undergraduate Student Transition
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ijerph21070884
Impact of a Neonatal Early-onset Sepsis Risk Calculator on Antibiotic Use in a Regional Australian Hospital
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- DOI reference: 10.2174/0118744346336095240906105203
The mechanisms of student grit at the height of a major crisis: Identifying key predictors when times get really tough
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- DOI reference: 10.1002/nop2.2069
Self-efficacy, grit, and rural career aspirations among early career nurses: a repeated cross-sectional study
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- DOI reference: 10.1186/s12912-024-01723-4
Changes in grit and psychological capital at the time of major crisis: Nursing students' perseverance, resources, and resilience
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- DOI reference: 10.1515/ijnes-2022-0114
Enhancing Students' Cultural Competency in Tertiary Health Education Using Internationalization at Home: A Literature Review
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- DOI reference: 10.3928/01484834-20230208-04
Health literacy among children living with a long-term condition: 'What I know and who I tell'
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/00178969231168210
Developing rights-based standards for children having tests, treatments, examinations and interventions: using a collaborative, multi-phased, multi-method and multi-stakeholder approach to build consensus
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- DOI reference: 10.1007/s00431-023-05131-9
"If I Can't Do It, Who Will?" Lived Experiences of Australian Emergency Nurses During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jen.2023.05.004
Sustaining rural pharmacy workforce understanding key attributes for enhanced retention and recruitment
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/ajr.12942
The Use of an Interactive Social Simulation Tool for Adults Who Stutter: A Pilot Study
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ejihpe13010014
Totally devoted to you: A qualitative study examining the experiences of sacrifice among pharmacists in rural and regional areas
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2023.02.014
Hermeneutic Constructivism: One ontology for authentic understanding
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/nin.12526
Paediatric Emergency Asthma Presentations: Temporal Trends and Representations in Rural Australia
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/healthcare11243113
Young Children’s Experiences with Yoga after School
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/19411243.2022.2037490
Pediatric emergency asthma presentations in Southwest Victoria: a retrospective cross-sectional study 2017 to 2020
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/02770903.2020.1845725
Professionalising care into compliance: The challenge for personalised care models
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/nin.12541
The Pharmacy Community Apgar Questionnaire: a modified Delphi technique to develop a rural pharmacist recruitment and retention tool
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- DOI reference: 10.22605/RRH7347
The influence of probiotics on gastrointestinal tract infections among children attending childcare: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jam.15374
Student Engagement Amongst Regional Australian Undergraduate Students
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- DOI reference: 10.14434/josotl.v22i3.31688
Group-urotherapy for children with complex elimination disorder: An Australian study
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/ijun.12320
Learning on the periphery: a modified Delphi study of a nursing student communities of practice model
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- DOI reference: 10.1515/ijnes-2021-0143
Empowerment as an alternative to traditional patient advocacy roles
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/09697330211020434
Outcomes of a pilot evaluation of a group urotherapy programme for children with complex elimination disorders: An Australian experience
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/13674935211022537
Self-regulation for and of learning: Student insights for online success in a bachelor of nursing program in regional australia
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/nursrep11020035
The rural nursing workforce hierarchy of needs: Decision-making concerning future rural healthcare employment
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/healthcare9091232
Factors contributing to the recruitment and retention of rural pharmacist workforce: a systematic review
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- DOI reference: 10.1186/s12913-021-07072-1
The Kids Are Alright: Outcome of a Safety Programme for Addressing Childhood Injury in Australia
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ejihpe11020039
The Historic to Contemporary Challenges among International Medical Graduates Seeking to Practise in Australia
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- DOI reference: 10.1353/hah.2021.0011
Self-efficacy, grit and perceptions of rural employment: What changes occur after graduation?
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- DOI reference: 10.14574/ojrnhc.v21i2.680
Twice-daily moisturizer application for skin tear prevention among older adults in acute care
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- DOI reference: 10.1097/01.ASW.0000725180.14180.da
The socioeconomic characteristics of childhood injuries in regional victoria, australia: What the missing data tells us
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ijerph18137005
Understanding childhood injuries in rural areas: Using Rural Acute Hospital Data Register to address previous data deficiencies
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/1742-6723.13565
A review of Code Blue activations in a single Regional Australian Healthcare Service: A retrospective descriptive study of RISKMAN data
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.15079
Communities of practice: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of what it means and how it really works among nursing students and novices
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.15100
Supervision in Healthcare: A Critical Review of the Role, Function and Capacity for Training
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- DOI reference: 10.13189/ujph.2020.080101
Body-Worn Versus Bell-and-Pad Alarm Device for the Management of Monosymptomatic Nocturnal Enuresis in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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- DOI reference: 10.1097/WON.0000000000000678
Pediatric emergency asthma presentations in Southwest Victoria: a retrospective cross-sectional study 2017 to 2020
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/02770903.2020.1845725
Television as a career motivator and education tool: A final-year nursing student cohort study
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ejihpe10010026
Occupational self-efficacy and psychological capital amongst nursing students: A cross sectional study understanding the malleable attributes for success
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ejihpe10010014
Factors that impact measures of grit among nursing students: A journey emblematic of the koi fish
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ejihpe10020041
Traversing the funambulist’s fine line between nursing and male identity: A systematic review of the factors that influence men as they seek to navigate the nursing profession
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/ejihpe10030051
Workplace based assessment program for international medical graduates: An evaluation of an Australian trial site
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- DOI reference: 10.13189/ujph.2020.080603
A narrative synthesis of childhood injury prevention programs for pre-school children
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- DOI reference: 10.13189/ujph.2020.080602
The academic experiences of transitioning to blended online and digital nursing curriculum
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104361
Academic and clinical performance among nursing students: What's grit go to do with it?
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104371
The data deficit for asthma emergency presentations might surprise you: How RAHDaR addresses the data chasm
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- DOI reference: 10.22605/RRH5776
What Australian Nursing Students Value as Important in Undertaking Rural Practice
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- DOI reference: 10.14574/ojrnhc.v20i1.589
Recovering the "individual" for qualitative research: An idiographic approach
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- DOI reference: 10.17169/fqs-20.3.3231
Twinning with Tonga: The Experiences of Tongan Stakeholders with a Long-term Partnership with Regional Victoria, Australia
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- DOI reference: 10.13189/ujph.2019.070308
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Management: A Retrospective Study in Rural General Practice
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- DOI reference: 10.13189/adm.2019.070101
Engaging Gadamer and qualia for the mot juste of individualised care
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/nin.12279
Is nursing student personality important for considering a rural career?
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- DOI reference: 10.1108/JHOM-03-2019-0074
Hermeneutic Constructivism: An Ontology for Qualitative Research
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/1049732317706931
Exploring young Australian adults' asthma management to develop an educational video
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/0017896917740721
Evaluating a Blended Online Learning Model among Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Quantitative Study
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- DOI reference: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000456
Enhancing tertiary healthcare education through 3D MUVE-based simulations
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4018/978-1-60960-195-9.ch308
Rural fathers' experiences of loss in day-to-day life with chronically ill children
Normalization behaviours of rural fathers living with chronically-ill children: An Australian experience
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/1367493505049645
The teacher as the 'digital perpetrator'': Implementing web 2.0 technology activity as assessment practice for higher education Innovation or Imposition?
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.773
Enhancing tertiary healthcare education through 3D MUVE-based simulations
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4018/978-1-61692-822-3.ch019
Attitude to the subject of chemistry in undergraduate nursing students at Fiji National University and Federation University, Australia
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.colegn.2014.06.001
The personal construct and language: Toward a rehabilitation of Kelly's "inner outlook"
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/0959354315574928
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...I know I can Multi-user Virtual Environments (MUVEs) as a means of developing competence and confidence in undergraduate nursing students: An Australian perspective
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.732