Amy-Louise Byrne

About Me

Dr. Amy-Louise Byrne is a Senior Lecturer and the Postgraduate Research Coordinator in the School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Sciences at CQUniversity. Her teaching expertise is diverse across the undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programs, clinical teaching, and industry based education sectors. Amy-Louise's clinical specialty is emergency nursing and rural and remote practice, with research expertise in qualitative design, critical discourse analysis and historic inquiry. Amy-Louise has a particular passion for rural/remote nurse-led models of care, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples health and equity.

General

Background

Dr Byrne has varied nursing experience including clinical, management, teaching, with specialties in emergency nursing, child and family health, and rural/remote nursing. She has been a Director of Nursing at a remote facility in south west Queensland where she was responsible for the provision of services, resource allocation, human resource management and community liaison (among many other responsibilities). Dr Byrne has previously held Nursing Director position in rural/remote health services with portfolio responsibilities in clinical excellence and person-centred care.

Dr Byrne's research expertise is in qualitative designs, particularly Critical Discourse Analysis. Dr Byrne's research experience has included work with Nurse Navigators, rural workforce pathways, First Nations healthcare workers and resilience and person-centred care.