James A Hughes

Professional educator with deep expertise in curriculum design, pedagogy, and research. Strong emphasis on fostering collaborative team environments and driving academic success. Recognized for flexibility and adaptability in meeting evolving educational needs. Skilled in developing engaging course materials, mentoring students, and contributing to scholarly activities. Reliable and results-focused, consistently delivering high-quality educational experiences.

• Research Outputs (last five years)
• Peer-Reviewed Publications
• Alsboui, R. A., Alshyyab, M. A., Hughes, J. A., Jones, L., & FitzGerald, G. (2023). A Cross-sectional Study Evaluating the Association Between the Nursing Practice Environment and Missed Nursing Care in Medical and Surgical Wards in Jordan. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 10.1097.
• Curtis, K., Fry, M., Kourouche, S., Kennedy, B., Considine, J., Alkhouri, H., Lam, M., McPhail, S. M., Aggar, C., & Hughes, J. (2023). Protocol: Implementation evaluation of an evidence-based emergency nursing framework (HIRIAD): study protocol for a step-wedge randomised control trial. BMJ Open, 13(1).
• Sweany, A. L., Bourke, C., Torpie, T. M., Sargeant, S., Hughes, J., Watson, J., Conroy, S., Carrasco, A., Tighe, K., & Thornton, N. S. (2023). Improving domestic violence screening practices in the emergency department: an Australian perspective. Emergency medicine journal, 40(2), 114-119.
• Alsboui, R. A., Alshyyab, M. A., Hughes, J. A., Jones, L., & FitzGerald, G. (2022). Examining the reasons for missed nursing care from the viewpoints of nurses in public, private, and university hospitals in Jordan: A cross-sectional research. Collegian.
• Alsboui, R. A., Hughes, J., Alshyyab, M. A., & Fitzgerald, G. (2022). A scoping review of the literature of interventions for enhancing nurses' resilience in acute care settings. Journal of Health Organization and Management(ahead-of-print).
• Althagafi, S. M., & Hughes, J. A. (2022). Identifying the relationship between patient-reported outcomes and treatment with opiates in the adult emergency department-A cross-sectional study. International Emergency Nursing, 62, 101152-101152.
• Hughes, J. A., Alexander, K. E., Spencer, L., & Yates, P. (2022). Factors associated with the experience of patients presenting in pain to the emergency department. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 31(9-10), 1273-1284.
• Mccahill, R., Keogh, S., & Hughes, J. A. (2022). Adult pain and anticipatory anxiety assessment in the emergency department: An integrative literature review. Journal of Clinical Nursing.
• Munday, J., Higgins, N., Mathew, S., Dalgleish, L., Batterbury, A. S., Burgess, L., Campbell, J., Delaney, L. J., Griffin, B. R., & Hughes, J. A. (2022). Nurse-led randomised controlled trials in the perioperative setting: A scoping review. Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 35(1), 7.
• Alsboui, R. A., FitzGerald, G., Hughes, J. A., & Ahmed Alshyyab, M. (2021). Missed nursing care and complexity theory: a conceptual paper. Journal of Research in Nursing, 26(8), 809-823.
• Hughes, J. A., Alexander, K. E., Spencer, L., & Yates, P. (2021). Factors associated with time to first analgesic medication in the emergency department. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 30(13-14), 1973-1989.
• Hughes, J. A., Chiu, J., Brown, N. J., Hills, A., Allwood, B., & Chu, K. (2021). The documentation of pain intensity and its influences on care in the emergency department. International Emergency Nursing, 57, 101015.
• Hughes, J. A., Jones, L., Potter, J., Wong, A., Brown, N. J., & Chu, K. (2021). An initial psychometric evaluation of the APS-POQ-R in acute pain presenting to the emergency department. Australasian Emergency Care, 24(4), 287-295.
• Merolli, M. (2021). Towards Automatic and Interpretable Assignments of Patients Presenting with Pain to the Emergency Department. Healthier Lives, Digitally Enabled: Selected Papers from the Digital Health Institute Summit 2020, 276, 20.
• Schmidt, M., Brownlie, J., Arnold, A., Lai, K., & Hughes, J. A. (2021). Emergency clinicians' interpretation and application of Anti-D guidelines. TheAustralian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 39(1), 2-6.
• Wong, A., Potter, J., Brown, N. J., Chu, K., & Hughes, J. A. (2021). Patient-Reported outcomes of pain care research in the adult emergency department: A scoping review. Australasian Emergency Care, 24(2), 127-134.
• Chen, M., & Hughes, J. A. (2020). The role of cognitive impairment in pain care in the emergency department for patients from residential aged care facilities: a retrospective, case-control study. Australasian Emergency Care, 23(2), 114-118.
• Duncan, J., Brown, N. J., Lock, C., Trudgett, S., Rothwell, S., Rosengren, D., & Hughes, J. A. (2020). Increasing the rate of documentation of security interventions in the emergency department: Big Orange Security Sticker (BOSS) Project. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 35(3), 276-281.
• Higgs, L., Atkinson, D., Brown, N. J., Schnitker, L., Lock, C., Merlo, G., Kramer, D., Bennett, L., & Hughes, J. A. (2020). The effects of therapeutic activity kits in emergency department patients with dementia: Study protocol for a pragmatic randomized control trial. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(6), 1449-1457.
• Hughes, J. A., Brown, N. J., Chiu, J., Allwood, B., & Chu, K. (2020). The relationship between time to analgesic administration and emergency department length of stay: A retrospective review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(1), 183-190.
• Marks, J., Markwell, A., Randell, T., & Hughes, J. (2020). Domestic and family violence, non-lethal strangulation and social work intervention in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 32(4), 676-678.
• Munday, J., Higgins, N., Mathew, S., Dalgleish, L., Batterbury, A. S., Burgess, L., Campbell, J., Delaney, L. J., Griffin, B. R., & Hughes, J. A. (2020). Nurse-led randomized controlled trials in the perioperative setting: a scoping review. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 647-660.
• Duncan, J., Brown, N. J., Hughes, J. A., Trudgett, S., Crilly, S., Rothwell, S., & Rosengren, D. (2019). Security interventions are frequently undocumented in emergency department clinical notes. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31(5), 797-804.
• Judge, C., Eley, R., Miyakawa-Liu, M., Brown, N. J., McCosker, C., Livesay, G., Hughes, J. A., & Vallmurg, K. (2019). Characteristics of accidental injuries from power tools treated at two emergency departments in Queensland. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 31(3), 436-443.
• Vu, T., Nguyen, A., Brown, N., & Hughes, J. (2019). Identifying patients with pain in emergency departments using conventional machine learning and deep learning. Proceedings of the The 17th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association.
• Hughes, J., Cabilan, C., Willams, J., Ray, M., & Coyer, F. (2018). The effectiveness of interventions to reduce peripheral blood culture contamination in acute care: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 7(1), 1-6.
• Hughes, J. A., Sheehan, M., & Evans, J. (2018). Treatment and outcomes of patients presenting to an adult emergency department involuntarily with substance misuse. International journal of mental health nursing, 27(2), 593-599.
• Knafl, E. G., Hughes, J. A., Dimeski, G., & Eley, R. (2018). Rhabdomyolysis: patterns, circumstances, and outcomes of patients presenting to the emergency department. Ochsner Journal, 18(3), 215-221.
• Grants (last five years, total $4.67 million)
• Curtis K, Shaban R, Shetty A, Alkhouri H, Aggar C, Varndell W, Lung T, Fry M, Hughes J, Li L, Dinh M, ...., Giving patients an EPIC-START: An evidence based, data driven model of care to improve patient care and efficiency in emergency departments, MRFF Models of Care to Improve the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Acute Care (Awarded $2.848 million, March 2022) (App MRFF2017845)
• Curtis K, Fry M, Considine J, Shaban R, Alkhouri H, McPhail S, Dinh M, Aggar C, Hughes JA, Murphy M., Improving the safety and quality of emergency nursing care. NHMRC Partnership Grant (Awarded $1.498 million, March 2021) (APP2005403).
• Hughes JA, Chu K, Nguyen A, Douglas C, Brown NJ, Jones L, Vu T, Jarugula R. (2020). From Big Data to the Bedside—Answering big questions in emergency department pain care using artificial intelligence and patient-reported outcomes. Emergency Medicine Foundation (Awarded $97 326, December 2020).
• Brownlee E, Cullen L, Greenslade J, Parsonage W, Hawkins T, Foran L, McCormick E, Hughes, JA, McKenzie J, Carl J, Robinson A, Saad I. (2020). Relief of chest pain in the Emergency Department (RELIEF). Emergency Medicine Foundation (Awarded $16 198, December 2020).
• McCormick E, Greenslade J, Crilly J, Brough P, Markwell A, Rule M, Hughes JA, Foran L, Brownlee E. Helping our healers: health and performance of ED staff. Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Foundation (Awarded $39 539.24, November 2020).
• Button E, Byrnes J, Hughes JA, Gavin N. (2020). An economic evaluation of a cancer care services nurse-led model of emergent care for people with cancer. Nursing and Midwifery Research Fellowships (Awarded $20 000, November 2020).
• Higgs L, Hughes JA, Atkinson D. A Pragmatic randomised control trial of the effects of therapeutic activity kits in emergency department patients with dementia and responsive behaviours. Nursing and Midwifery Research Fellowships (Awarded $14 975, November 2020).
• Bodnar D, Mitchell G, Brown NJ, Hughes JA, Chu K. (2020). How long can a clinician wearing personal protective equipment safely work in a high-risk isolation area during one continuous shift? Emergency Medicine Foundation (Awarded $11 255 , December 2020).
• Bodnar D, Mitchell G, Brown NJ, Hughes JA, Chu K. (2020). How long can a clinician wearing personal protective equipment safely work in a high-risk isolation area during one continuous shift? Emergency and Trauma Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, RBWH & RBWH Foundation Project Grant Special Round COVID-19 (Awarded $9,823, July 2020).
• Hughes JA, Higgs L, Kramer D, Bennett L, Atkinson D, Lock C, et al. (2019). A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of the effects of therapeutic activity kits on emergency department patients with dementia and responsive behaviours—The TACK Trial. Rosemary Bryant Foundation (Awarded $9, 600, July 2019).
• Schnitker L, Beattie E, Arendts G, Hughes JA. (2019). Implementing the Dare-ED into practice, Can it work? Queensland University of Technology Seed Grant (Awarded $10, 000, September 2019).
• Williams J, Hughes JA, Nimo G. (2018). Testing of InfectID Samples. Microbio Pty Ltd (Awarded $13, 468, July 2018).
• Williams J, Hughes JA, Ray M, Dixon M, Hills An, Duncan J, Harper J, Greenslade J. (2018). Improving blood culture collections in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Foundation (Awarded $81, 614, August 2018).

• Subject Area Coordination
• Emergency Nursing
• Unit Coordination
• NSN721 Contemporary Issues in Emergency and Intensive Care Nursing
• NSB203 Inquiry in Clinical Practice
• Teaching Roles
• HLN703 Project (Supervisor for five students)
• HLN750 Dissertation (Supervisor for one student)
• NSB910 Nursing Therapeutics 1: Health Assessment and Clinical Reasoning (Lecturer)

• Current post-graduate representative on the School Learning and Teaching Committee
• Low-risk reviewer for the Metro North HREC
• Member of the Nursing Research Strategic Advisory Committee – RBWH
• Member of the Research Committee – Emergency Medicine Foundation
• Grant Reviewer – Emergency Medicine Foundation
• Grant Reviewer – Princess Alexandra Hospital Foundation Grants Scheme