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- PROFESSOR MEGAN-JANE JOHNSTONE. PhD,RN, FRCNA
Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone is currently Professor of Nursing at RMIT University, where she has worked for the past 21 years. In September, 2008, she will take up her new position as the Chair in Nursing at Deakin University in Melbourne.
Professor Johnstone is renowned internationally for her scholarly research in the areas of nursing and health care ethics, with a particular emphasis on health and human rights, cross-cultural ethics, professional conduct, clinical risk management and patient safety ethics, and more recently, climate change (health) ethics, moral politics and moral public policy development - especially in the areas of culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services and end of life decision-making.
She has published numerous journal articles and commentaries, and is the author of several books, including the internationally acclaimed: Bio ethics a nursing perspective (Elsevier Science, due for release as a fifth revised edition in September 2008), and Ethics in nursing practice: a guide to ethical decision making (2008) formally commissioned by the International Council of Nurses, Geneva (co-authored with Sara T. Fry of the USA, and just released as a third revised edition).
Professor Johnstone is currently serving a third fourth year term as a nominated Consultant (Ethics and Human Rights) to the International Council of Nurses, Geneva.
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