Professor Paul Fulbrook

Paul trained as a registered nurse in Winchester, qualifying in 1985. Following registration he gained experience in general, cardio-thoracic and neuroscience intensive care nursing at Southampton General Hospital, where he also undertook his post-graduate clinical intensive care qualification. Paul developed his career in intensive care nursing as a charge nurse and clinical teacher at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, before taking on the post of Senior Lecturer in Critical Care (which he held for several years). He now has over twenty years’ experience of working in the nursing environment (primarily in critical care) – latterly in the contexts of education, research and practice development. Paul is well known nationally and internationally for his critical care nursing work, and has spoken at many national and international conferences.
Paul commenced his current post of Professor of Nursing at the Australian Catholic University, Brisbane in November 2004. His position is a research role, with a minimum teaching load. He supervises several research students and is working on a range of research projects with local health services and university staff.
Paul has a consistent publication record, predominantly in the field of critical care nursing (see publications), and he has been publishing in quality journals since 1991. He has co-edited a major nursing text on advanced nursing practice (Rolfe & Fulbrook 1998), in which he has two chapters. He has also contributed chapters to two editions of an important nursing research text (Cormack 1996 & 2000) and has co-written a chapter for the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses new critical care text. Paul is Co-editor of a worldwide critical care nursing journal which was launched in Spring 2001: CONNECT: The World of Critical Care Nursing. It is the official journal of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses. In addition, he is an editorial board member of a major critical care nursing journal (Nursing in Critical Care), and a journal referee for several other journals (Australian Critical Care, Journal of Advanced Nursing; Journal of Clinical Nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies).
PF completed his PhD in July 2003, titled The Nature of Evidence to Inform Critical Care Nursing Practice, through Bournemouth University, UK. The thesis promotes pragmatic epistemology as a basis for a science of nursing practice, in which all forms of evidence are considered primarily in terms of their value for practice. This area of work continues to be a main research interest.

• Serginson, J. & Fulbrook, P. (2006). Portable oxygen: longer for less with the Oxymizer Pendant. The Airways Journal 2006, 4(2), 105-108.
• Fulbrook, P., Latour, J., Albarran, J., Graaf de, W., Lynch, F. & Devictor, D. (2007). The Presence of Family Members During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Working Group. The Presence of Family Members During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations, European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care and Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Health Professions Joint Position Statement. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 6(4), 255-258.
• Fulbrook, P., Latour, J., Albarran, J., Graaf de, W., Lynch, F. & Devictor, D. The Presence of Family Members During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Working Group. The Presence of Family Members During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations, European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive and Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Health Professions Care Joint Position Statement. Nursing in Critical Care, 12(5), 250-252.
• Fulbrook, P., Bongers, A. & Albarran, J. (2007). A European survey of enteral nutrition practices and procedures in adult intensive care units. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16(11), 2132-2141.
• Fulbrook, P., Latour, J., Albarran, J., Graaf de, W., Lynch, F. & Devictor, D. (2007). The Presence of Family Members During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Working Group. The Presence of Family Members During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations, European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care and Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Health Professions Joint Position Statement. Connect: The World of Critical Care Nursing, 5(4), 86-88.
• Fulbrook, P., Latour, J. & Albarran, J. (2007). Paediatric critical care nurses’ attitudes and experiences of parental presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a European survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 44(7), 1238-1249.
• Fulbrook, P. (2007). What in the world have we done (editorial). Connect: The World of Critical Care Nursing, 5(3), 65.
• Williams, G., Chaboyer, C., Alberto, L., Thorsteinsdottir, R., Schmollgruber, S., Fulbrook, P., Chan, D. & Bost, N. (2007). Critical care nursing organisations and their activities – a second worldwide overview. International Nursing Review, 54(2), 151-159.
• Fulbrook, P. & Grealy, B. (2007). Essential Nursing Care of the Critically Ill Patient. In D. Elliott, L. Aitken & W. Chaboyer (Eds.), ACCCN's Critical Care Nursing.(Chapter 9:187-214). Sydney: Elsevier.
• Fulbrook, P. (2007). Developing practice. Nursing Review, 07 January 2007, 6.
• Roynette, C.E., Bongers, A., Fulbrook, P., Albarran, J.W. & Hofman, Z. Enteral feeding practices in European ICUs: A survey from the European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations (EfCCNa). e-SPEN Journal 2008; (in press) Accepted for publication 17 October 2007.
• Lynch, F., Fulbrook, P., Latour, J., Albarran, J., Graaf de, W. & Devictor, D. (2008). The presence of family members during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: position statement. Infant, 4(2), 44-45.
• Kearney, L., Fulbrook, P. & Howlett, L. ‘Drop-in’ clinics compared with individual appointment clinics: an outcome evaluation of an innovative group model of care for families with infants aged 0-18 months. Australian Journal of Child and Family Health Nursing Under review.

Critical care nursing practices and procedures; knowledge for practice; enteral feeding, end-of-life care; intensive care nurses' knowledge levels; use of seclusion in mental health; evaluation of health services for 'low risk' families.

Research, evidence-based practice