Professor of nursing in New Zealand
Clare Harvey is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in research to improve healthcare.
Academic career
Harvey completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of South Africa, followed by a Master of Arts at Massey University and a PhD titled Through the Looking Glass: The Politics of Advancing Nursing and the Discourses on Nurse Practitioners in Australia at Flinders University.[1] She is a registered nurse.[2] After leaving Flinders, Harvey joined the faculty of the Eastern Institute of Technology, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2014.[3] Harvey then joined Massey University, where she rose to full professor in 2022.[4]
Harvey's research concerns service provision in healthcare, including professional practice and healthcare outcomes. She has a particular interest in primary care, and inequities that affect the care people receive.[4] Harvey has received funding from the Health Research Council to examine how to help people with chronic conditions be included in decision-making about their care, and enable their return to work.[5][6] She has also researched the impact of nurse practitioners in primary care, and the concept of "missed care" in nursing that takes place after-hours and at weekends. Harvey's research showed that missed care occur on all shifts, and that there are organizational reasons why missed care occurs.[7] Harvey has also surveyed the New Zealand nursing workforce, finding that New Zealand's nursing population is older and more mobile than the nursing population in Australia.[7]
In 2019, Harvey was awarded a Vice Chancellor's Award and a Dean's Award for Research Excellence at Central Queensland University.[8][2]
Selected works
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