Flinders University
Ms Meg Hegarty
Ms
Meg
Hegarty
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/meg.hegarty
| Position/s: | Head (Academic) Palliative and Supportive Services |
| Phone: | +61 8 72218236 |
| Email: | meg.hegarty@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | RGH Health Sciences (-) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Meg Hegarty is an experienced palliative care clinical nurse, clinical manager and educator. She has taught in the Palliative Care and Palliative Care in Aged Care postgraduate courses in the School of Medicine, Flinders University since 2001. She coordinated the development of the Palliative Care in Aged Care courses and the Master of Applied Gerontology. Meg is published internationally and has presented at conferences and workshops internationally and nationally. She has coordinated intensive courses in Singapore for students from the South East Asian region. In 2009 Meg was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence. Her research has included membership or Chief Investigator roles in several national, multi-site research projects and collaboration on international authorship teams.
Qualifications
BNsg, MPHC
Honours, awards and grants
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009 (Individual Award)
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008 (Team Award)
Cancer Council SA Travelling Grant, 2010
Key responsibilities
Academic Head, Palliative and Supportive Services, Clinical Effectiveness
Course Coordinator, Palliative Care in Aged Care postgraduation courses
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
Research and consultancy
Research interests
- Refractory suffering in palliative care
- developing capacity for working effectively and sustainably with refractory suffering
- caring for the spirit in palliative care
- learning and teaching caring for the spirit in palliative care
- palliative care in aged care
- palliative care for people with dementia
- education in palliative care
- palliative care in undergraduate Australian health curricula
- the "Baby Boomer" generation, ageing and dying.
Publications
Book chapters
Hegarty, M.M. & Currow, D.C., 2010. Postgraduate education in palliative medicine. In Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine Fourth Edition. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, pp. 1576-1585.
Hegarty, M.M., 2009. Learning to die, learning to live: mythopoesis in the baby boomers' seach for wisdom. In Spirituality, Mythopoesis & Learning. Mt Gravatt, QLD: Post Pressed, pp. 241-255.
Refereed journal articles
Hegarty, M.M., Abernethy, A.P., Olver, I.N., & Currow, D.C., 2011. Former palliative caregivers who identify that additional spiritual support would have been helpful in a population survey. Palliative Medicine, 25(3), 266-277.
Swetenham, K., Hegarty, M.M., Breaden, K.M., & Grbich, C.F., 2011. Refractory suffering: The impact of team dynamics on the interdisciplinary palliative care team. Palliative and Supportive Care, 9(1), 55-62.
Hegarty, M.M., Breaden, K.M., Swetenem, C.M., & Grbich, C.F., 2010. Learning to Work with the "Unsolvable"; Building capacity for working with refractory suffering. Journal of Palliative Care, 26(4 Winter 2010), 287-294.
Hegarty, M.M., Currow, D.C., Parker, D., Turnbull, B., Devery, K.E., Canning, D., Nash, R., Mitchell, G.K., Grbich, C.F., & Yates, P., 2010. Palliative care in undergraduate curricula: Results of a national scoping study. Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi Discipline Journal, 12(2), 97-109.
Currow, D.C., Allen, K., Plummer, J.L., Aoun, S.M., Hegarty, M.M., & Abernethy, A.P., 2008. Bereavement help-seeking following an 'expected' death: a cross-sectional randomised face-to-face population survey. BMC Palliative Care, 7(19).
Tieman, J., Mitchell, G.K., Shelby-James, T.M., Currow, D.C., Fazekas, B.S., O'Doherty, L.J., Hegarty, M.M., Eriksson, L., Brown, R., & Reid-Orr, D.A., 2007. Integration, Coordination and Multidisciplinary Care: What can These Approaches Offer to Australian Primary Health Care?. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 13(2), 56-65.
Hegarty, M.M. & Currow, D.C., 2007. Palliative aged care: collaborative partnership between gerontology, geriatrics and palliative care. International Journal of Gerontology, 1(3), 112-117.
Hegarty, M.M., 2007. Care of the spirit that transcends religious, ideological and philosophical boundaries. Indian Journal of Palliative Care, 13(2), 42-47.
Book chapters
McLean Heitkemper, M., Ross Staats, C., Harrington, A.C., & Hegarty, M.M., 2012. Palliative Care. In Lewis's medical-surgical nursing: assessment and management of clinical problems 3rd Edition. Sydney, Australia: Elsevier, pp. 158-172.
Hegarty, M.M. & Currow, D.C., 2010. Postgraduate education in palliative medicine. In Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine Fourth Edition. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, pp. 1576-1585.
Hegarty, M.M., 2009. Learning to die, learning to live: mythopoesis in the baby boomers' seach for wisdom. In Spirituality, Mythopoesis & Learning. Mt Gravatt, QLD: Post Pressed, pp. 241-255.
McLean Heitkemper, M., Ross Staats, C., Harrington, A.C., & Hegarty, M.M., 2008. Palliative care. In Lewis's medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems. Marrickville, NSW: Elsevier, pp. 153-167.
Ross Staats, C., Pollard, K.A., Brown, C.E., Harrington, A.C., & Hegarty, M.M., 2005. Palliative care. In LEWIS'S MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING. Sydney, NSW: Elsevier/Mosby, pp. 163-176.
Refereed journal articles
Hegarty, M.M., Abernethy, A.P., Olver, I.N., & Currow, D.C., 2011. Former palliative caregivers who identify that additional spiritual support would have been helpful in a population survey. Palliative Medicine, 25(3), 266-277.
Swetenham, K., Hegarty, M.M., Breaden, K.M., & Grbich, C.F., 2011. Refractory suffering: The impact of team dynamics on the interdisciplinary palliative care team. Palliative and Supportive Care, 9(1), 55-62.
Hegarty, M.M., Currow, D.C., Parker, D., Turnbull, B., Devery, K.E., Canning, D., Nash, R., Mitchell, G.K., Grbich, C.F., & Yates, P., 2010. Palliative care in undergraduate curricula: Results of a national scoping study. Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi Discipline Journal, 12(2), 97-109.
Hegarty, M.M., Breaden, K.M., Swetenem, C.M., & Grbich, C.F., 2010. Learning to Work with the "Unsolvable"; Building capacity for working with refractory suffering. Journal of Palliative Care, 26(4 Winter 2010), 287-294.
Currow, D.C., Allen, K., Plummer, J.L., Aoun, S.M., Hegarty, M.M., & Abernethy, A.P., 2008. Bereavement help-seeking following an 'expected' death: a cross-sectional randomised face-to-face population survey. BMC Palliative Care, 7(19).
Hegarty, M.M. & Currow, D.C., 2007. Palliative aged care: collaborative partnership between gerontology, geriatrics and palliative care. International Journal of Gerontology, 1(3), 112-117.
Hegarty, M.M., 2007. Care of the spirit that transcends religious, ideological and philosophical boundaries. Indian Journal of Palliative Care, 13(2), 42-47.
Tieman, J., Mitchell, G.K., Shelby-James, T.M., Currow, D.C., Fazekas, B.S., O'Doherty, L.J., Hegarty, M.M., Eriksson, L., Brown, R., & Reid-Orr, D.A., 2007. Integration, Coordination and Multidisciplinary Care: What can These Approaches Offer to Australian Primary Health Care?. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 13(2), 56-65.
Parish, K.a., Glaetzer, K.M., Grbich, C.F., Hammond, L., Hegarty, M.M., & McHugh, A., 2006. Dying for attention: palliative care in the acute setting. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(2), 21-25.
Grbich, C.F., Parish, K.a., Glaetzer, K.M., Hegarty, M.M., Hammond, L., & McHugh, A., 2006. Communication and decision making for patients with end stage diseases in an acute care setting. Contemporary Nurse, 23(1), 21-37.
Currow, D.C. & Hegarty, M.M., 2006. Suffering - at the bedside of the dying. Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, 18(2,3), 123-136.
Currow, D.C. & Hegarty, M.M., 2006. Residential aged-care facility palliative care guidelines: improving care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 12(5), 231-233.
Hegarty, M.M., Hammond, L., Parish, K.a., Glaetzer, K.M., McHugh, A., & Grbich, C.F., 2005. Nursing documentation: non-physical dimensions of end-of-life care in acute wards. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 11(12), 633-636.
Conference publications
Davis, S.J., Shanahan, M.J., Campbell, A., Hegarty, M.M., & McCarthy, B., 2011. Palliative Care for People with Dementia: Aged Care Staff Perspectives. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Abstracts, 7(4 (Suppl. 1)), e50-e50.
Yates, P., Nash, R., Hegarty, M.M., Currow, D.C., Devery, K.E., Mitchell, G.K., Turnbull, B., Rosenwax, L., Grbich, C.F., Farrington, A., et al., 2010. Using the evidence based palliative care curriculum resources to strengthen student engagement and learning support. Proceedings of the Inaugural Innovate and Educate Conference.
Hegarty, M.M., 2009. Working with unrelieved suffering from pain: developing ways of supporting sustainable, effective pain practice [abstract]. Freedom from Pain, 55-56.
C, T., Tieman, J., Oldham, L., Kristjanson, L.J., Currow, D.C., Hegarty, M.M., & J, A., 2008. Guidelines for a palliative approach to care for older adults living in the community. 41st National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology, 27, A57-A58.
Hegarty, M.M., Devery, K.E., Breaden, K.M., & Currow, D.C., 2007. Present and Future Challenges of Postgraduate Palliative Care Education: Educating Clinicians for Changing Practice. Connecting Diversity: 10th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, 191-191.
Devery, K.E., Goh, C., Currow, D.C., Shaw, R.J., Breaden, K.M., & Hegarty, M.M., 2007. Palliative Care Higher Education in the South East Asia Region. 9th Australian Palliative Care Conference Program Booklet, 52-52.
Hegarty, M.M., Devery, K.E., Breaden, K.M., & Currow, D.C., 2006. The Impact of Refractory Suffering: Educating Clinicians in Awareness and Capacity Building Through an Online Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Programme. PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY: Abstracts of the 8th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, 15(Supp 2).
Allen, K., Swetenham, K., Currow, D.C., Hegarty, M.M., & Abernethy, A.P., 2006. Bereavement Help-seeking Following a Palliative Death - A Cross-sectional Randomised Population Survey. PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY: Abstracts of the 8th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology, 15(Supp 2).
Currow, D.C., Hegarty, M.M., Andrews, G., Edwards, P.R., & Lawrence, J.S., 2004. Palliative Care in Aged Care Post-graduate Courses. 3rd International Conference: Ageing & Spirituality: Ageing, Spirituality & Palliative Care.
Hegarty, M.M., 2004. Gerontology, geriatrics and palliative care: collaborative partnerships in learning for clinical practice. MAKING CONTACTS: HANDBOOK AND BOOK OF ABSTRACTS.
Hegarty, M.M., 2004. Learning to Tango: A Cross-faculty Post-graduate Programme in Palliative Care in Aged Care.
Hegarty, M.M., 2003. Palliative care in the aged care setting: Addressing the educational challenges. Time to Reflect.
Other public research outputs
Tieman, J., Mitchell, G.K., Shelby-James, T.M., Currow, D.C., Fazekas, B.S., O'Doherty, L.J., Hegarty, M.M., Eriksson, L., Brown, R., & Reid-Orr, D.A., 2006. Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary approaches in primary care: a systematic investigation of the literature.
Harrington, A.C. & Hegarty, M.M., 2004. Ch 10 Palliative Care in Lewis's Medical-Surgical Nursing. , 163-176.
