Dr. Kaye Heritage
Senior Lecturer, Nursing
Campus
Biography
Dr Kaye Heritage (née Knight) is a senior lecturer in nursing and healthcare leadership and building student self-leadership and leadership capabilities in both the undergraduate and post graduate courses.
Kaye returned to academia at Federation University in 2022 after 11 years working in education and leadership roles in rural health. Kaye has experience as a business owner providing training and education consultancy to healthcare services and entities, government and peak bodies.
Kaye is collaborating on a project about workplace civility in healthcare which focuses on building healthcare workers skills to identify and respond to uncivil behaviour, and to learn more about the factors that lead to incivility in the healthcare workplace.
More about Kaye
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
- Master of Education, University of Southern Queensland
- Graduate Diploma of Further Education and Training, University of Southern Queensland
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Nursing), Australian Catholic University
- Certificate IV Human Resources, Australian Human Resources Institute
- Certificate IV Training and Assessment, Victoria University
Areas of interest
- Leadership in healthcare
- Learning and teaching
- Instructional system design and curriculum development
- Workplace civility in healthcare
Areas of expertise
Kaye has expertise in rural health, leadership, learning and teaching, and instructional systems design. She has completed research in rural nursing practice, telehealth and workplace violence, and aggression.
Grants
- 2021, Chisholm, M., Knight, K., James, W. & Noonan, M. Improving the management of pain for rural older people. Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy Ltd, Major Grant ($92,000)
- 2020, Knight. K. Enrolled Nurse Transition to Practice Program. Competitive Grant. Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Development Fund, Department of Health & Human Services ($153,296)
- 2019, Knight, K. Nursing and Midwifery Refresher Programs. Competitive Grant. Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Development Fund, Department of Health & Human Services ($18,000)
- 2019, Knight. K. Enrolled Nurse Transition to Practice Program. Competitive Grant. Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Development Fund, Department of Health & Human Services ($152,224)
- 2010, Knight, K. Mental Health Triage Scale Train the Trainer Program – Program development and State-wide rollout. Victorian Department of Health ($71,720)
Current
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Mentorship in Australian Academia and it’s impacts’, co-supervisor.
Past
- Master’s student (Minor thesis), Federation University, ‘Evaluation of prevalence of prescription-based Melatonin in addition to antidepressants, sedatives and hypnotics usage among 2yr – 18yr-olds via a regional Victorian pharmacy’, co-supervisor.
- Master’s student (Minor thesis), Federation University, ‘The Ageing Workforce: Navigating the Mining Construction Industry with Chronic Pain and Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders’, co-supervisor
- Master’s student (Minor thesis), Federation University, ‘Community based palliative care nursing (CBPCN) services recruitment of recently graduated registered nurses: a case study’, co-supervisor
- Bachelor of Nursing (Honours), Federation University, ‘Nurses caring for people they know’, co-supervisor.
- Nursing
- Leadership
- Evidence based practice
- Adult education
Collaborative Evaluation and Research Centre (CERC)
Health Innovation and Transformation Centre
- Publications
Occupational violence and aggression in urgent and critical care in rural health service settings: A systematic review of mixed studies
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/hsc.14039