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About the Editors

Doug Elliott decision-making practices of critical care nurses and a
Doug Elliott is Professor of Nursing in the Faculty of range of clinical practice issues within critical care and
Nursing, Midwifery and Health at the University of Tech- trauma.
nology, Sydney. During his 25 years as a nurse academic,
Doug has been a faculty Director of Research, Clinical Leanne has been active in ACCCN for more than 20 years
Professor, Head of Department and a conjoint hospital and was made a Life Member of the College in 2006 after
appointment as Assistant Director of Nursing – Research. having held positions on state and national boards, coor-
Prior to this, he worked as a clinician in acute and critical dinated the Advanced Life Support course in Western
care areas in tertiary hospitals in Sydney and Perth. Australia in its early years, chaired the Education Advisory
Panel and been an Associate Editor with Australian Critical
Doug’s clinical and health services research focuses on Care. In addition, she is a peer reviewer for a number of
the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and illness national and international journals and reviews grant
experiences of individuals with critical and acute ill- applications for a range of organisations including the
nesses, and the use of technologies to improve patient National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
outcomes. Doug has received research funding from the and Intensive Care Foundation. She is the World Federa-
NHMRC and the Australian Commission on Safety and tion of Critical Care Nurses’ representative on a number
Quality in Health Care, as well as competitive funding of sepsis related working groups including an interna-
from other national organisations, health service and uni- tional group who authored a companion paper to the
versity funding sources. He has published over 80 peer- Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines to summarise the
reviewed articles and book chapters, and is co-editor for evidence underpinning nursing care of the septic patient,
two additional books, on nursing and midwifery research, the revision of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines
and pathophysiology and nursing practice. and the Global Sepsis Alliance.
Doug became a Life Member of the Australian College of Wendy Chaboyer
Critical Care Nurses in 2006 in recognition of over 20 Wendy Chaboyer is a Professor of Nursing at Griffith
years of service to critical care. He has previously been an University and the Director of the Centre of Research
Associate Editor and on the Editorial Board for Australian Excellence in Nursing Interventions for Hospitalised
Critical Care, was the inaugural Chair of the Research Patients, funded by the National Health and Medical
Advisory Panel, a member of the Education Advisory Research Council (NHMRC) (2010–2015). Wendy has 30
Panel, and also served on the NSW committee. He is cur- years experience in the critical care area, as a clinician,
rently on the Editorial Board for the American Journal of educator and researcher and she is passionate about the
Critical Care, and peer-reviews for several critical care contribution nurses can make to a patient’s, and their
medicine and nursing journals, and a range of competi- family’s, hospital experience. Her research has focused on
tive funding bodies. Doug has been an invited speaker to ICU patients’ transitions and on continuity of care for
international and national multi-disciplinary critical care ICU patients. More recently, she has focused on patient
meetings on numerous occasions. safety, undertaking research into adverse events after ICU,
clinical handover and ‘transforming care at the bedside’.
Leanne Aitken
Leanne Aitken is Professor of Critical Care Nursing at Wendy has been active in ACCCN since her arrival in
Griffith University and Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia in the early 1990s. She has been a National
Queensland. She has a long career in critical care nursing, Board member and member of the Queensland Branch
including practice, education and research roles. In all Management Committee. Wendy is a past Chair of the
her roles in nursing, Leanne has been inspired by a sense Research Advisory Panel and past Chair of the Quality
of enquiry, pride in the value of expert nursing and a Advisory Panel of the ACCCN. Wendy played a role in
belief that improvement in practice and resultant patient the formation of the World Federation of Critical Care
outcomes is always possible. Research interests include Nurses and continues to support their activities. Wendy
developing and refining interventions to improve long reviews for a number of journals and funding bodies such
x term recovery of critically ill and injured patients, as the NHMRC and the Australian Research Council.