Dr Anthony Tuckett

Senior Lecturer / International Coordinator (Academic)

UQ School of Nursing & Midwifery

Profile and Research Interests

Anthony Tuckett spent the first 5 years of his professional life as a navigator. He holds a second-mates foreign-going certificate (merchant navy), is a foundation graduate of the Australian Maritime College (Launceston, TAS) and has shipped a range of bulk and boxed cargoes around the Australian coast, across the Pacific, up and down the West Coast of the USA and North America, through Malaysia and into Indonesia. In 1989-90, he spent 6 weeks in the back of a truck travelling from Nairobi to Harare.

Dr Tuckett is an RN, Senior Lecturer and the inaugural Year 3 Courses Coordinator and International Coordinator (Academic), Faculty of Health Sciences, UQ, School of Nursing & Midwifery. He was formally trained as a Registered Nurse (1985-1988) at the Princess Alexandra Hospital where until very recently he was situated in the UQ School of Nursing (2005-2008). He currently conducts research from The University of Queensland and Blue Care Research and Practice Development Centre where he is also the Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Community Care (ACEBCC) - a collaborating centre for the JBI.

Dr Tuckett has demonstrated excellence in his past academic record and research productivity since completing his PhD in 2004 for which he was awarded a Centaur Doctoral Fellowship to complete. Anthony’s PhD work was original and innovative in the area of aged care and truth telling. Over the last 5 years [including 2009] Anthony has 18 publications, including 3 book chapters and 5 state/national reports in the last 2 years. Some of these publications are in high impact journals even though the top journals in the area of Anthony’s research are likely to be about IF<2. Anthony currently has 6 papers under review and a further 4 manuscripts in press and has published extensively in the international literature and is developing a reputation internationally in his field. Anthony’s involvement in state/national reports that shape policy reflect the quality and impact of his research work in his chosen area. Dr Tuckett shows leadership potential as an early career researcher and has been involved in competitive grants of >3.5 million in the last 5 years.

Publications

Book Chapters

Tuckett, A. 2006. ‘Anthony Tuckett’. In D. Vernon (ed.), Men at Birth (pp. 50-57), Canberra: Australian College of Midwives and Maternity Coalition.

Tuckett, A. 2003. An ethic of the fitting: A conceptual framework for nursing practice. In S. Zinaich & J. Rowan (eds.). Ethics for the Professions (pp278-282). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Journal Articles

Henwood, T., Eley, R., Parker, D., Tuckett, A., & Hegney, D. 2009. Regional differences among employed nurses: a Queensland Study. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 17(4): 201-207.

Boyde, M., Tuckett, A., Peters, R., Thompson, D., Stewart, S., Turner, C. 2009 Learning for heart failure patients (The L-HF Patient Study). Journal of Clinical Nursing, 18(14): 2030-2039.

Huntington, A., Gilmore, J., Schluter, P., Tuckett, A., Bogossian, F., Turner, C. 2009. The Internet as a research site: A report on the establishment of a web-based longitudinal study of the nursing and midwifery workforce in three countries, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65(6): 1309-1317.

Tuckett, A., Hughes, K., Schluter, P. & Turner, C. 2009. Validation of CARE-Q in residential aged-care. Rating of importance of caring behaviours from an e-cohort sub-study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 18(10): 1501-1509.

Iedema, R., Sorensen, R., Manias, E., Tuckett, A., Piper., D., Mallock, N., Williams, A. Jorm, C. 2008 Patients’ and family members’ experiences of open disclosure following adverse events, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 20(6): 421-432.

Sorensen, R., Iedema, R., Piper, D., Manias, E.,Williams, A., Tuckett, A. 2008 Health care professionals’ views of implementing a policy of open disclosure errors. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 13(4): 227-232.

Iedema, R., Mallock, N., Sorensen, R., Manias, E., Tuckett, A., et al. 2008. The national open disclosure pilot: Evaluation of a policy implementation, Medical Journal of Australia, 188(7): 397-400.

Turner, C., Bain, C., Schluter, P., Yorkston, E., Bogossian, F., McClure, R., Huntington, A., Nurses and Midwives e-cohort Group. 2008. Cohort Profile: The nurses and midwives e-cohort study – a novel electronic longitudinal study, International Journal of Epidemiology, 39(1): 53-60.

Tuckett, A. 2007. The meaning of nursing-home: ‘Waiting to go up to St. Peter, OK! Waiting house, sad but true’-an Australian perspective. Journal of Aging Studies, 21(4): 119-133.

Tuckett, A. 2007. Stepping across the line: information sharing, truth-telling and the role of the personal carer in the Australian nursing-home. Qualitative Health Research, 17(4): 489-500.

Tuckett, A. 2006. Registered nurses’ understanding of truth-telling as practiced in the nursing home: An Australian perspective, Health Sociology Review, 15(2): 179-191.

Tuckett, A. 2006. On paternalism, autonomy and best interests: Telling the aged care resident what they want to know. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 12(3): 166-173.

Tuckett, A. 2005. Applying thematic analysis theory to practice: A researcher’s experience. Contemporary Nurse, 19(1/2): 75-87.

Tuckett, A. 2005. The care encounter: Pondering caring, honest communication and control. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 11: 77-84.

Tuckett, A. 2005. Residents’ rights and nurses’ ethics in the Australian nursing home International Nursing Review, 52: 219-224.

Tuckett, A. 2005. Part II: Rigour in qualitative research- complexities and solutions. Nurse Researcher, 13(1): 29-42.

Tuckett, A. 2004. Qualitative research sampling the very real complexities. Nurse Researcher. 12(1): 47-61.

Tuckett, A. 2004. Truth-telling in clinical practice and the arguments for and against: A review of the literature. Nursing Ethics, 11(5): 500-513.

Tuckett, A., & Stewart, D. (2004). Part II: Group discussion as method: Experience, rationales and limitations. Contemporary Nurse, 16(3): 240-251.

Tuckett, A., & Stewart, D. (2003/4). Part I: Journals as method: Experience, rationales and limitations. Contemporary Nurse, 16(1/2): 104-113.

Tuckett, A. 2000. Virtuous principles as an ethic for nursing. Contemporary Nurse, 9: 106-114.

Tuckett, A. 1999. Nursing practice: Compassionate deception and the Good Samaritan. Nursing Ethics, 6(5): 383-389.

Tuckett, A. 1998. “Bending the truth”: Professionals’ narratives about lying and deception in nursing practice. The International Journal of Nursing Studies, 35: 292-302.

Tuckett, A. 1998. An ethic of the fitting: A conceptual framework for nursing practice. Nursing Inquiry, 5(4): 220-227.

Tuckett, A. 1998. Code of ethics: Assistance with a lie choice? The Australian Journal of Holistic Nursing, 5(2): 36-40.

Address and Contact Details

University of Queensland / Blue Care

Research and Practice Development Centre

56 Sylvan Road

TOOWONG QLD 4066

Australia

T: +61 (0)7 3720 5405

F: +61 (0)7 3720 5332

E: a.tuckett@uq.edu.au