Rate My Professor Ashley Kable

Professor Kable's research focuses on health services research and safety in health care in acute care settings and health care transitions. Key areas include adverse events in surgical admissions and post-discharge complications, interventions to reduce adverse events, sharps and needlestick injuries in nurses, occupational rehabilitation of nurses, resistance to care episodes, transitional care for people with cognitive impairment such as dementia and stroke survivors, and medication safety for people with dementia. She employs quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, including intervention studies, patient and workforce surveys, focus groups, and expert panels. Awards include the 2015 Faculty of Health and Medicine Research Supervision Award, 2011 Equity Research Fellowship, 2008 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Academic Women, and 2002 Peter Reizenstein Prize for the best paper in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care. Notable publications encompass 'Satisfaction with asynchronous e-learning: An exploratory factor analysis of the Learner Satisfaction with Asynchronous e-Learning (LSAeL) instrument' (2024, Nurse Education in Practice), 'Evaluation of the Effect of a Safe Medication Strategy on Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Polypharmacy and Anticholinergic Burden for People with Dementia' (2023, Healthcare), 'Does telehealth influence the decision to transfer residents of residential aged care facilities to emergency departments?' (2023, International Journal of Older People Nursing), and earlier works such as 'Predictors of adverse events in surgical admissions in Australia' (2008, International Journal for Quality in Health Care). Her contributions have helped elevate the University of Newcastle's research quality to well above world standard.