Flinders University
Dr Mayumi Kako
Dr
Mayumi
Kako
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/mayumi.kako
| Position/s: | Research Assistant (Population Health) School of Nursing and Midwifery |
| Phone: | +61 8 82015255 |
| Email: | mayumi.kako@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Sturt North Wing (N220) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Mayumi has her first nursing qualification from Kobe City College of Nursing in Japan. After she worked as a registered nurse for some years, she has earned her Bachelor of Nursing (post-registration course) and Master of Nursing at Finders University. She has developed her strong interest in nursing history through her master degree, consequently completed doctoral degree studying on the professionalization discourse in South Australia since the 1950s in 2008.
Mayumi's current research interests are:
- the preparedness/willingness of nurses to participate in disaster health
- health professionals' competence in disaster health
- nurses' experience in a disaster and oral history
- community experience in a disaster and learning
- methodological development to research disaster health.
Qualifications
PhD (Flin) 2008, MNg (Flin) 2001, BNg (Flin) 1999, RN
Honours, awards and grants
2012 The Historical Society of South Australia to support the project "Historical study of the role of nurses during the Spanish Influenza between 1918-19 in South Australia $480.
Research and supervision
Research expertise
- History and philosophy of specific fields
- Nursing
Research interests
I am interested in the area of:
- disaster nursing, especially interested in the role of nurses in recovery phase of disasters
- mass gathering research
- disaster history
- nursing professionalization history
Publications
Refereed journal articles
Arbon, P.A., Ranse, J., Cusack, L., Considine, J., Shaban, R., Woodman, R., et al. (2013). Australasian emergency nurses' willingness to attend work in a disaster: A survey. Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aenj.2013.05.003.
Hutton, A.E., Roderick, A., Munt, R., Mayner, L., Kako, M. and Arbon, P. (2012). Celebrating the end of school life: A pilot study. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 27(1), pp.13-17. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X11006765.
Kako, M., Mitani, S. and Arbon, P. (2012). Literature review of disaster health research in Japan: Focusing on disaster nursing education. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 27(2), pp.178-183. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X12000520.
Hutton, A.E., Munt, R.L., Zeitz, K.M., Cusack, L., Kako, M. and Arbon, P.A. (2010). Piloting a mass gathering conceptual framework at an Adelaide Schoolies Festival. Collegian, 17(4), pp.183-191. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2010.09.005.
Kako, M. and Mitani, S. (2010). A literature review of disaster nursing competencies in Japanese nursing journals. Collegian, 17(4), pp.161-173. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2010.09.003.
Kako, M. and Ikeda, S. (2009). Volunteer experiences in community housing during the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Japan. Nursing and Health Sciences, 11(4), pp.357-359. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-2018.2009.00484.x.
Kako, M. and Rudge, T.K. (2008). Governing nursing: curriculum as a rhetorical vehicle using South Australian nursing schools from the 1950s onwards as an illustrative case. Contemporary Nurse, 30(2), pp.142-155. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=87100871;res=MEDITEXT.
Conference publications
Kako, M. and Arbon, P. (2013). The role of nurses during the Spanish flu in South Australia. In International Council of Nurses 25th Quadrennial Congress.
Yasuda, J., Oono, M., Okawa, M., Henmi, C., Kako, M. and Tsuruya, K. (2013). The occupational risk factor of musclosketal disorders among registered nurses and care workers in Japan. In International Council of Nurses 25th Quadrennial Congress.
Kako, M. (2012). The history of overseas nurses in Australia. In The Sixth Conference for the Asian Society for the History of Medicine. [online]. http://user.keio.ac.jp/~aaasuzuki/BDMH/ASHM/Programme&AbstractsFinal01.pdf.
Refereed journal articles
Arbon, P.A., Ranse, J., Cusack, L., Considine, J., Shaban, R., Woodman, R., et al. (2013). Australasian emergency nurses' willingness to attend work in a disaster: A survey. Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aenj.2013.05.003.
Hutton, A.E., Roderick, A., Munt, R., Mayner, L., Kako, M. and Arbon, P. (2012). Celebrating the end of school life: A pilot study. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 27(1), pp.13-17. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X11006765.
Kako, M., Mitani, S. and Arbon, P. (2012). Literature review of disaster health research in Japan: Focusing on disaster nursing education. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 27(2), pp.178-183. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X12000520.
Hutton, A.E., Munt, R.L., Zeitz, K.M., Cusack, L., Kako, M. and Arbon, P.A. (2010). Piloting a mass gathering conceptual framework at an Adelaide Schoolies Festival. Collegian, 17(4), pp.183-191. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2010.09.005.
Kako, M. and Mitani, S. (2010). A literature review of disaster nursing competencies in Japanese nursing journals. Collegian, 17(4), pp.161-173. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2010.09.003.
Kako, M. and Ikeda, S. (2009). Volunteer experiences in community housing during the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Japan. Nursing and Health Sciences, 11(4), pp.357-359. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-2018.2009.00484.x.
Kako, M. and Rudge, T.K. (2008). Governing nursing: curriculum as a rhetorical vehicle using South Australian nursing schools from the 1950s onwards as an illustrative case. Contemporary Nurse, 30(2), pp.142-155. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=87100871;res=MEDITEXT.
Conference publications
Kako, M. and Arbon, P. (2013). The role of nurses during the Spanish flu in South Australia. In International Council of Nurses 25th Quadrennial Congress.
Yasuda, J., Oono, M., Okawa, M., Henmi, C., Kako, M. and Tsuruya, K. (2013). The occupational risk factor of musclosketal disorders among registered nurses and care workers in Japan. In International Council of Nurses 25th Quadrennial Congress.
Kako, M. (2012). The history of overseas nurses in Australia. In The Sixth Conference for the Asian Society for the History of Medicine. [online]. http://user.keio.ac.jp/~aaasuzuki/BDMH/ASHM/Programme&AbstractsFinal01.pdf.
Bahnisch, L.V., Arbon, P., Cusack, L., Ranse, J., Shaban, R., Considine, J., et al. (2011). To work or not to work: An analysis of the willingness of Australian emergency nurses to respond to a disaster. In 9th International Conference for Emergency Nurses. 9th International Conference for Emergency Nurses. [online]. http://events.cdesign.com.au/ei/viewpdf.esp?id=254&file=P:/Eventwin/docs/pdf/cena2011Abstract00112.pdf.
Kako, M. and Rudge, T. (2010). Tools of thinking; Intertextuality within discourse analysis in nursing historical research. In Conference Book of Abstracts. the International Perspectives in the History of Nursing Conference.
Ranse, J., Arbon, P., Shaban, R., Considine, J., Mitchell, B., Hammad, K., et al. (2010). Understanding the willingness of Australian emergency nurses to respond to a health care disaster. In Ramon Z. Shaban, Marie F. Gerdta and Julie Considine, ed. Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal. 8th International Conference for Emergency Nurses,The National Convention Centre, Canberra, 14-16 October 2010. pp. 138-139. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aenj.2010.08.267.
Kako, M. and Mitani, S. (2009). A literature review of disaster nursing competencies in Japanese nursing journals. In Prehospital and Disaster Medicine?: abstracts - 16th world congress on disaster and emergency medicine. 16th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine. pp. s118-s118.
Kako, M. and Mitani, S. (2009). Literature review of disaster health research in Japan. In Prehospital and Disaster Medicine - Abstract - 16th world congress on disaster and emergency medicine. 16th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine. pp. s26-s26.
Ranse, J., Arbon, P.A. and Kako, M. (2009). Evaluating the influential factors in mass gathering casualty presentation characteristics - World Youth Day, Sydney, Australia 2008. In Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal. 7th International Conference for Emergency Nurses. pp. 150-150. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aenj.2009.08.010.
Kako, M. (2008). Who decides nursing professionality?: The growth of governmentality in nursing professionality since the 1950s. In Borders, boundaries and political context in nursing and health care history. CAHN/ACHN International Nursing History Conference. [online]. http://www.cahn-achn.ca/pdf/2008CAHNConferenceProgramAndAbstracts.pdf.
Professional and community engagement
- Member of College of Nursing Australia
- Member of World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)
- Member of Australia New Zealand Society of History of Medicine (ANZSHM)
- Member of Oral History of Australia Association (OHAA)
- Member of American Association of History for Nursing (AAHN)
- Board Member of the Disaster Research Centre at the Flinders University
- Member of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery History Group
