Pauline Rose
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
Biography
Pauline Rose has worked in Radiation Oncology for the past 32 years, and is the Clinical Nurse Consultant for Radiation Oncology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, which was the first Magnet Hospital in the southern hemisphere. She completed her PhD in 2010 and is a Credentialed Cancer Nurse (Australia). She was a Content Author for the Cancer Institute New South Wales for radiation therapy education modules for nurses and is a regular reviewer for the European Journal of Oncology Nursing. She has published in a range of peer-reviewed journals focusing on person-centred and individualized nursing care in the radiation oncology department, and was instrumental in 1995 in introducing a primary nursing/collaborative practice model into the radiation oncology department, which continues to provide person-centred care to patients every day.