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Truth-telling, lying and deception in the clinical encounter between the nurse and the patient and the nurse and the resident (in the nursing home). Senior Lecturer Anthony G Tuckett
RN, Dip App Sc (Nautical) (AMC), BN (ACU), Post Grad Dip Phil (UQ), MA (Research) (QUT), PhD (QUT)
After sailing about the world for several years, Anthony Tuckett completed his general nursing training at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in the mid-80s. His clinical experiences have mostly been in paediatrics, both at the Royal Canberra Hospital and the Mater Misericordia Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, in intensive care and emergency nursing. A Europe/Africa backpacking journey also contributed to his nursing experiences when Anthony cared for the frail elderly, in their own homes, throughout the UK.
For more than 12 years Anthony has been involved in the tertiary education of nurses and was Lecturer-in-Charge, Nursing and Healthcare Ethics at ACU for nine years. During this tenure, he completed a research Master’s degree (Applied Ethics) titled Lying and deception in nursing practice: a case study and a PhD (Public Health) titled Truth-telling in aged care: a qualitative study. Anthony has presented research papers locally, nationally and internationally in the areas of truth-telling, teaching ethics and research methods to audiences comprising ethicists, public health researchers, nurse academics and clinicians, educationalists and sociologists. He has published for a readership inclusive of students, novice and experienced researchers and academics. He is the 2001 Fellow, Centuar Memorial Fund for Nurses and also currently an Honorary Fellow, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, QUT. Since 2004 he has been a member, Expert Panel, Queensland Nursing Council, conducting oral examination of Registered Nurses as a condition of re-registration following disciplinary action by Council.
In 2005 Anthony was appointed as a Senior Lecturer/Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, UQ, School of Nursing. Located at the Princess Alexandra Clinical School, he teaches in the problem based learning program and supervises clinical practicum for undergraduate nursing students.
Anthony’s research and clinical interest is information disclosure and openness. He is also drawn toward examining qualitative research methods as practised in the field. At present he is working on publishing more from doctoral research, collaboratively developing research into registered nurses’ experiences of ethical issues and moral distress and collaboratively researching students’ and graduate nurses’ perceptions about the UQ BN curriculum.
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