Dr Sheena McChlery

National Midwifery Professional Development Coordinator; Senior Lecturer

Email: sheena.mcchlery@nd.edu.au
Phone: 9433 0216

• Biography

  Sheena has over fourteen years of teaching experience at The University of Notre Dame Australia. Within this time period, Sheena has taught in the Bachelor of Nursing as well as in the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery. Sheena participated in the development of the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery and the two re-accreditations of this degree, and was the Program Coordinator for eight years.

  Sheena's clinical nursing and midwifery expertise is obtained through senior positions in various public and private organisations and health facilities in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, in metropolitan and rural or remote areas.

  Sheena is a midwife assessor for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council.

  Sheena has a PhD from Murdoch University. Her main research interest is feminist explorations of women's health.

• Teaching areas

  • Midwifery; feminist and social justice explorations of women's health.
  • Perimenopause - a short course for nurses and midwives.

• Research expertise and supervision

  • Sheena's PhD is a feminist exploration of women's experiences of perimenopause. She used van Manen (2014) to guide her phenomenological approach.
  • Her main research interest is any feminist and social justice explorations of women's health issues.
  • Sheena is currently supervising a PhD student and a Master of Nursing Research student.
  • Research survey: The art of cultural safety: Decolonising pedagogy.
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Seed Grant. (2021). The University of Notre Dame Australia. Western Australia. The Art of Cultural Safety: Decolonising Pedagogy.  Geraghty, S., Buchanan, K., Knapp, N., McChlery, S., Balding, K., & Hogan, R. $5,000

• Journal articles and proceedings

  • Pennell, C.E., Henderson, J.J., O’Neill, M.J., McChlery, S., Doherty, D.A. & Dickinson, J.E. (2009). Induction of labour in nulliparous women with an unfavourable cervix: A randomised controlled trial comparing double and single balloon catheters and PGE2 gel. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 116, 1443-1452. https://doi-org.ipacez.nd.edu.au/10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.02919.x
  • McChlery, S. (2007). The perioperative care of a super morbidly obese pregnant woman: A case study. Journal of Perioperative Practice, 17(11), 530-534 https://doi.org/10.1177/175045890701701102

• Conference papers

  • "Strengthening midwifery through art: How a collaborative indigneous art workshop contributes to cultural safety understanding".  Oral conference presentation at the third Transforming Midwifery Practice through Education conference, 2023. Canberra, ACT, 30-31 March 2023.
  • "An Aboriginal art workshop in a midwifery curriculum can impact the cultural safety knoweldge of midwifery students". Poster presentation at the WA Australian College of Midwives state conference, 2022. Perth, WA, 4 November, 2022.
  • "The utilisation of the Sustainable Development Goals in a midwifery-led health strategy: A midwifery student assessment". Poster presentation at the 12th Biennial Conference of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery, 2018, Cairns Queensland, 18th-19th July 2018.
  • "Using midwifery to encourage deep reflection". Conference presentation at the inaugural Transforming Midwifery Practice through Education conference, 2018. Sunshine Coast, Queensland, 20th – 21st September, 2018.
  • "Pregnancy and perimenopause – A problem". Presentation at the School of Nursing and Midwifery Research Symposium, 2016, Fremantle, WA. 3rd June, 2016.
  • "Reshaping the research process: Supervision as interdisciplinary knowledge-sharing". Presentation at the Postgraduate Supervision Conference, 2015, South Africa. 24th-27th March, 2015.
  • "Innovation in undergraduate curriculum design: A dream or reality?" Presentation at the 14th National Nurse Education Conference, Perth, WA. 13th April, 2012.
  • "Transporting to another galaxy - the perioperative care of a super morbidly obese pregnant woman". Presentation at the 40th ORNA (Operating Room Nurses Association WA) Annual Conference, Perth, WA. 8th November, 2008.
  • "Staying afloat – the perioperative care of a super morbidly obese pregnant woman". Presentation at the 13th ACORN (Australian College of Operating Room Nurses) National Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland. 22nd May, 2008.

• Professional affiliations

  • 2023: Australian College of Nursing (ACN)
  • 2020 to current date: Trans-Tasman Midwifery Education Consortium (TTMEC)
  • 2018 to current date: Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM)