With a career spanning nursing experience in Mental Health, Aged Care, Palliative Care, General Practice, and Nurse Educator roles, as well as 12 years in undergraduate nursing education, Sandra Bayliss, Programme Leader and Lecturer from the Nurse Education Team at UCOL, was a solid choice for the role peer reviewer in one of Elsevier's recent publications.
Elsevier is one of the world’s major providers of scientific, technical and medical information, who have been working as a publishing company since 1880, approached Sandra in 2017 to see if she would consider being a Peer Reviewer.
“I was thrilled when Elsevier asked me if I would take on the role of peer reviewer of
Community Health and Wellness, previous versions of this textbook have been in use in my classroom for many years”.
As the sixth edition of Community Health and Wellness, the book has been fully revised and streamlined to incorporate contemporary thinking and research in community health and wellness from Australia, New Zealand and the global community.
This textbook is regularly used in an undergraduate setting as a resource to Primary Health across Australasia, others institutions involved in the review were University of New England of New South Wales, Holmesglen Institute of Victoria, Griffith University of Queensland and the Ara Institute of Canterbury in Christchurch.
Part of the reviewing process meant that Sandra needed to thoroughly read and review the content of the book, from here she was asked to rate it based on the strengths or weakness of the content and also to give feedback in general.
“I found the content easy to read. The concepts are complex for the students to understand, so using the textbook throughout the undergraduate degree will enable undergraduate nursing students to develop a deeper level of understanding. Having input into something my colleagues and myself will be using in the classroom was definitely important to me, there is also something nice about students being able to see UCOL and its staff being recognised as having expertise in this space”
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