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Profile - Dr Lois Hamlin |
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 Dr Lois Hamlin.
is a perioperative nurse who has worked in the OR for many years. She is now a senior lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), where she coordinates perioperative education for undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has also practised in coronary care, intensive care and high dependency medical/surgical wards in the past. She has post-registration qualifications in perioperative nursing and intensive care nursing; an undergraduate degree, a Masters degree (majoring in education).
and she has successfully completed doctoral studies. Her research focused on the role of ACORN, and its impact on nursing practice and patient outcomes. Her current research interests are competency development and advanced practice, and factors impacting on recruitment and retention in the OR.
Dr Hamlin was a member of the executive committee of the NSW OTA Inc. for more than 10 years and was the President from 1998/1999. She has also served a 4-year term on the Executive of the Board of ACORN, initially as the Honorary Secretary and then in the role of Honorary Treasurer.
She was the Editor of the ACORN Journal from 2005 mid-2006 and is currently a member of the editorial review panel of that journal. She is also a member of the Editorial Boards of AORN Journal and the Journal of Perioperative Practice. She is a Fellow of RCNA; the College of Nursing (NSW); and a Foundation Fellow of ACORN.
Dr Hamlin was awarded the Alison Bell Memorial Prize (editor’s choice) for the best paper published in the British Journal of Perioperative Nursing (now the Journal of Perioperative Practice) in 2000. She was the inaugural winner of the NSW OTA Excellence in Perioperative Nursing Award in 2004.
Dr Hamlin has presented numerous papers locally, nationally and internationally including at every World Conference on Surgical Patient Care since 1999 and, on occasions, at the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) (formerly NATN) annual congress since 1996. She has published approximately 30 peer reviewed articles, more than 30 others, and 4 book chapters. She has a further 2 book chapters in press and, along with several colleagues, has co-written and is the lead editor for the first Australasian perioperative nursing textbook. This is due to be published in the latter half of 2008.
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