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Deb Gillon
RGON, MHealSc (Nursing) BA(Education)
Principal Lecturer
Tel. 03 940 8074
gillond@cpit.ac.nz
Deb is the Co-ordinator of Health Assessment courses at CPIT. She is course leader for Health Asssessment of Adults and Health Assessment of Children in the Graduate Certificate. She teaches in the Advanced Health Assessment paper in the Otago Polytechnic Master of Nursing programme. Deb also teaches in the Transition to Practice course in year 3 of the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing Programme.
Areas of Interest
Health Assessment, Clinical practice interest in Older person's health, Nursing education - curriculum design, Assessment and evaluation,
Presentations
Gillon, D. (2003). "Absolutely positive attitudes: The development of student nurses's attitudes towards older people as they progress through a 3-year undergraduate nursing programme." College of nurses conference, Wellington, NZ.
Neville, S., Gillond., & Milligan, K. (2002). The use of Physical assessment skills and attitudes towards health assessment by registered nurses." Paper presented at Nursing research section, NZNO conference, Hamilton NZ.
Gillon, D. (2000) Health assessment: a necessity for nurses in the 21st century." College of Nurses conference. Christchurch, New Zealand.
Research Projects
Master's thesis: Change in nursing student attitudes towards older people following education. 2001.
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