Associate Professor, WITI Convenor
Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice
Background and Interests
Eileen McKinlay is a nurse by background and has worked primarily in cancer and palliative care settings. She has also been involved in developing and auditing quality assurance systems in clinical practice. Eileen undertook her comprehensive nursing training at Wellington Polytechnic, now Massey University and then completed a Masters at Victoria University.
In 2002, Eileen joined the Department as a health researcher and was appointed a Lecturer in 2004. In 2017 Eileen was appointed Interprofessional Education Campus Leader and oversees the IPE programme at UOW. She is the UOW Academic Nurse Leader and chairs the UOW Nurses and Midwives Network. Eileen directs the PHC & GP postgraduate programme, convenes the UOW Ashton Fitchett Seminar Series for primary and integrated care health professionals and is a member of the CCDHB Primary Health Care Nurses Leadership Group. Eileen’s research interests include: implementing interprofessional education, interprofessional collaboration in health care delivery, palliative medicine education, long-term condition management; patient’s experience of multimorbidity care and clinicians’ experience of how to provide collaborative care in multlmorbidity; models of integrated youth health care.
Teaching Activities
Undergraduate Medicine Education:
Long-term Conditions Management, Palliative Care
Undergraduate Interprofessional Education:
Convener: Wellington Interprofessional Teaching Initiative (WITI) (Louise Beckingsale, Karen Colman, Ben Darlow, Sarah Donovan, Ben Gray, Eileen McKinlay, Hazel Neser, Meredith Perry, Sue Pullon, Christine Wilson)
In 2017 the IPE programme involves dietetic, medicine, physiotherapy and radiation therapy students (UOW) and pharmacy interns (Pharmaceutical Society) and clinical psychology students (Victoria University).
Postgraduate Interprofessional Education:
Convenor: GENA 709 Long-term conditions Management
Convenor: GENA 711 Long-term conditions Management (Advanced)
Co-convenor: GENA 731 Supporting Healthier Lifestyles: Core Principles
Co-convenor: GENA 710 Mental Health and Illness in Primary Care
Co-convenor: Study Skills programme for postgraduate students
Research Activities
Preventing type 2 diabetes with Probiotics and Prebiotics (PDP2)
Researchers: Jeremy Krebs, Julian Crane, Kristin Wickens, Mark Huthwaite, Mark Weatherall, Amber Parry-Strong, Christine Barthow, Phillipa Barnes, Sue Pullon, Eileen McKinlay, Jo Hilder & Cristina Cleghorn
Post-settlement refugee-like migrants and refugees, a comparative primary care health analysis.
Researchers: Jonathan Kennedy, Serena Moran, Eileen McKinlay, Jenny Visser
Youth Health Study: Investigating collaborative care across health and social service agencies
Researchers: Sue Pullon, Eileen McKinlay, Sonya Morgan, Sue Garrett
Interprofessional undergraduate education: ongoing research into the undertaking and implementation interprofessional education
Researchers: Karen Coleman, Ben Darlow, Sarah Donovan, Ben Gray, Eileen McKinlay, Hazel Neser, Meredith Perry, Sue Pullon (Wellington Interprofessional Teaching Initiative WITI)
The social organisation of clinical work: use of the Communities of Clinical Practice tool
Researchers: WITI- Louise Beckingsale, Karen Coleman, Ben Darlow, Sarah Donovan, Ben Gray, Eileen McKinlay, Hazel Neser, Meredith Perry, Sue Pullon, Christine Wilson, Jess Young (Dunedin)
An exploration of the roles of nurses working in a medical school: a pilot study at University of Otago
Researchers: Eileen McKinlay, Christine Barthow, Bernadette Jones, Peter Gallagher, Lindsay Macdonald
An exploration of the impact of a creative writing workshop on medical students
Researchers: Eileen McKinlay, Glenn Colquhoun, Lynn McBain, Peter Gallagher
Supervision of Masters Students
Mary Wong: Caroline Morris & Eileen McKinlay (ongoing)
Robyn Taylor: Caroline Morris & Eileen McKinlay (completed 2015)
Publications
McKinlay, E. M., Brown, M., Wallace, D., Morris, C., & Garnett, A. (2021). A match made in heaven: Exploring views of medicine students, pharmacy interns and facilitators in an interprofessional medicines pilot study. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences & Practice, 19(1), 3. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/ijahsp/vol19/iss1/3
McKinlay, E., Brown, M., Beckingsale, L., Burrow, M., Coleman, K., Darlow, B., Donovan, S., … Hilder, J., Neser, H., Perry, M., … Pullon, S. (2020). Forming inter-institutional partnerships to offer pre-registration IPE: A focus group study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 34(3), 380-387. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2019.1685476
Garrett, S., Pullon, S., Morgan, S., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Collaborative care in 'Youth One Stop Shops' in New Zealand: Hidden, time-consuming, essential. Journal of Child Health Care, 24(2), 180-194. doi: 10.1177/1367493519847030
Darlow, B., Brown, M., Grainger, R., Hudson, B., Briggs, A. M., Abbott, J. H., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Stakeholder views about a novel consumer health resource for knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage Open, 2, 100058. doi: 10.1016/j.ocarto.2020.100058
Imlach, F., McKinlay, E., Middleton, L., Kennedy, J., Pledger, M., Russell, L., … McBride-Henry, K. (2020). Telehealth consultations in general practice during a pandemic lockdown: Survey and interviews on patient experiences and preferences. BMC Family Practice, 21(1), 269. doi: 10.1186/s12875-020-01336-1
Chapter in Book - Research
Pullon, S., Darlow, B., & McKinlay, E. (2016). Building evaluation into the development of interprofessional education initiatives. In D. Forman, J. Thistlethwaite & M. Jones (Eds.), Leading research and evaluation in interprofessional education and collaborative practice. (pp. 145-166). Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-53744-7_8
Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., Gallagher, P., Gray, L., Skinner, M., & McHugh, P. (2015). Case study 14.4: Interprofessional education in a rural setting: A quick-start innovation for final-year health professional students. In K. Bin Abdulrahman, S. Mennin, R. Harden & C. Kennedy (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of medical education. (pp. 197). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [Case Study].
McKinlay, E., & McBain, L. (2010). The palliative care partnership: The evolution of a New Zealand model of integrated palliative care. In A. Fortier & S. Turcotte (Eds.), Health education: Challenges, issues and impact. (pp. 241-262). New York: Nova.
Chapter in Book - Other
McKinlay, E., Bycroft, J., Darlow, B., Gray, B., Morris, C., & Pullon, S. (2017). Interdisciplinary collaboration: Working in teams for patient care. In K. A. Morris (Ed.), Cole's medical practice in New Zealand. (13th ed.) (pp. 81-99). Wellington, New Zealand: Medical Council of New Zealand.
McKinlay, E., Gray, B., & Pullon, S. (2013). Interdisciplinary collaboration: Working in teams for patient care. In I. St George (Ed.), Cole's medical practice in New Zealand. (12th ed.) (pp. 143-149). Wellington, New Zealand: Medical Council of New Zealand.
Journal - Research Article
McKinlay, E. M., Brown, M., Wallace, D., Morris, C., & Garnett, A. (2021). A match made in heaven: Exploring views of medicine students, pharmacy interns and facilitators in an interprofessional medicines pilot study. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences & Practice, 19(1), 3. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/ijahsp/vol19/iss1/3
McKinlay, E., Brown, M., Beckingsale, L., Burrow, M., Coleman, K., Darlow, B., Donovan, S., … Hilder, J., Neser, H., Perry, M., … Pullon, S. (2020). Forming inter-institutional partnerships to offer pre-registration IPE: A focus group study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 34(3), 380-387. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2019.1685476
Imlach, F., McKinlay, E., Middleton, L., Kennedy, J., Pledger, M., Russell, L., … McBride-Henry, K. (2020). Telehealth consultations in general practice during a pandemic lockdown: Survey and interviews on patient experiences and preferences. BMC Family Practice, 21(1), 269. doi: 10.1186/s12875-020-01336-1
Darlow, B., Brown, M., Grainger, R., Hudson, B., Briggs, A. M., Abbott, J. H., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Stakeholder views about a novel consumer health resource for knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage Open, 2, 100058. doi: 10.1016/j.ocarto.2020.100058
Garrett, S., Pullon, S., Morgan, S., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Collaborative care in 'Youth One Stop Shops' in New Zealand: Hidden, time-consuming, essential. Journal of Child Health Care, 24(2), 180-194. doi: 10.1177/1367493519847030
Morgan, S., Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., Garrett, S., Kennedy, J., & Watson, B. (2020). Collaborative care in primary care: The influence of practice interior architecture on informal face-to-face communication: An observational study. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/1937586720939665
Kennedy, J. D., Moran, S., Garrett, S., Stanley, J., Visser, J., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Refugee-like migrants have similar health needs to refugees: A New Zealand post-settlement cohort study. BJGP Open, 4(1), bjgpopen20X101013. doi: 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101013
Goodyear-Smith, F., Stokes, T., McKinlay, E., Nixon, G., Lack, L., Fortier, R., & Pullon, S. (2020). New Zealand general practice registrars' views on their academic learning needs during vocational training: Online survey. Education for Primary Care, 31(3), 136-144. doi: 10.1080/14739879.2020.1729250
McKinlay, E. M., Moran, S. V., Morgan, S. J., Sari, P., Kerridge, J. M., & Pullon, S. R. H. (2019). What does palliative care look like in a New Zealand aged residential care facility when patients die are admitted to die? New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1505), 14-28. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
McKinlay, E., White, K., McChesney, P., Hardie, C., Higgs, R., Hilder, J., & Gallagher, P. (2019). Interprofessional education for cancer care. Clinical Teacher, 16, 519-524. doi: 10.1111/tct.12985
Morgan, S., Pullon, S., Garrett, S., & McKinlay, E. (2019). Interagency collaborative care for young people with complex needs: Front-line staff perspectives. Health & Social Care in the Community, 27, 1019-1030. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12719
McKinlay, E., McDonald, J., Darlow, B., & Perry, M. (2019). The social networks of New Zealand patients with multimorbidity and the work of those nominated as their 'significant supporters': An exploratory study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 27, 392-399. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12657
McKinlay, E., Young, J., & Gray, B. (2018). General practice and patients' views of the social networks of patients with multimorbidity. Journal of Primary Health Care, 10(3), 258-266. doi: 10.1071/HC17050
Darlow, B., Brown, M., Thompson, B., Hudson, B., Grainger, R., McKinlay, E., & Abbott, J. H. (2018). Living with osteoarthritis is a balancing act: An exploration of patients' beliefs about. BMC Rheumatology, 2, 15. doi: 10.1186/s41927-018-0023-x
McDonald, J., McKinlay, E., Keeling, S., & Levack, W. (2017). The 'wayfinding' experience of family carers who learn to manage technical health procedures at home: A grounded theory study. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 31(4), 850-858. doi: 10.1111/scs.12406
McKinlay, E. M., Morgan, S. J., Gray, B. V., Macdonald, L. M., & Pullon, S. R. H. (2017). Exploring interprofessional, interagency multimorbidity care: Case study based observational research. Journal of Comorbidity, 7(1), 64-78. doi: 10.15256/joc.2017.7.103
McDonald, J., McKinlay, E., Keeling, S., & Levack, W. (2017). Complex home care: Challenges arising from the blurring of boundaries between family and professional care. Kōtuitui, 12(2), 246-255. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2017.1373681
Morgan, S. J., Pullon, S. R. H., Macdonald, L. M., McKinlay, E. M., & Gray, B. V. (2017). Case study observational research: A framework for conducting case study research where observation data are the focus. Qualitative Health Research, 27(7), 1060-1068. doi: 10.1177/1049732316649160
Taylor, R., McKinlay, E., & Morris, C. (2017). Standing order use in general practice: The views of medicine, nursing and pharmacy stakeholder organisations. Journal of Primary Health Care, 9(1), 47-55. doi: 10.1071/HC16023
McKinlay, E., Gallagher, P., Jones, B., Macdonald, L., & Barthow, C. (2017). Crossing professional cultures: A qualitative study of nurses working in a medical school. Contemporary Nurse, 53(6), 633-646. doi: 10.1080/10376178.2017.1416304
Darlow, B., McKinlay, E., Gallagher, P., Beckingsale, L., Coleman, K., Perry, M., & Pullon, S. (2017). Building and expanding interprofessional teaching teams. Journal of Primary Health Care, 9(1), 29-33. doi: 10.1071/HC16053
McKinlay, E., McDonald, J., Darlow, B., & Perry, M. (2017). Social networks of patients with multimorbidity: A qualitative study of patients' and supporters' views. Journal of Primary Health Care, 9(2), 153-161. doi: 10.1071/HC16062
Pullon, S., Morgan, S., Macdonald, L., McKinlay, E., & Gray, B. (2016). Observation of interprofessional collaboration in primary care practice: A multiple case study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 30(6), 787-794. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2016.1220929
Kane, P., Jasperse, M., Egan, R., McBain, L., McKinlay, E., Pullon, S., & Herst, P. (2016). Continuity of cancer patient care in New Zealand: The general practitioner perspective. New Zealand Medical Journal, 129(1440), 55-63. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Arcus, K., Gunn, L., Nelson, K., & McKinlay, E. (2016). Public health nursing in a non-traditional environment. Whitireia Nursing & Health Journal, 23, 45-53.
Foster Page, L. A., Gray, L., Gallagher, P., McKinlay, E., & Rich, A. M. (2016). Untangling the web of influences on dental students' participation in interprofessional education programs. Journal of Dental Education, 80(6), 677-685.
Crawford, R. M., Gallagher, P., Harding, T., McKinlay, E. M., & Pullon, S. R. (2016). Interprofessional undergraduate students talk about nurses and nursing: A qualitative study. Nurse Education Today, 39, 7-11. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.12.021
McKinlay, E., Gallagher, P., Wilson, C., Gray, L., McHugh, P., & Pullon, S. (2016). Social learning, shared accommodation and interprofessional education: I think those conversations that you have at the dinner table …. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 5, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.xjep.2016.07.001
Pullon, S., Wilson, C., Gallagher, P., Skinner, M., McKinlay, E., Gray, L., & McHugh, P. (2016). Transition to practice: Can rural interprofessional education make a difference? A cohort study. BMC Medical Education, 16, 154. doi: 10.1186/s12909-016-0674-5
Darlow, B., Donovan, S., Coleman, K., McKinlay, E., Beckingsale, L., Gallagher, P., Gray, B., Neser, H., Perry, M., & Pullon, S. (2016). What makes an interprofessional education programme meaningful to students? Findings from focus group interviews with students based in New Zealand. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 30(3), 355-361. doi: 10.3109/13561820.2016.1141189
McDonald, J., McKinlay, E., Keeling, S., & Levack, W. (2016). Becoming an expert carer: The process of family carers learning to manage technical health procedures at home. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 72(9), 2173-2184. doi: 10.1111/jan.12984
McDonald, J., McKinlay, E., Keeling, S., & Levack, W. (2015). How family carers engage with technical health procedures in the home: A grounded theory study. BMJ Open, 5(7), e007761. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007761
McBain, L., Donnelly, S., Hilder, J., O'Leary, C., & McKinlay, E. (2015). "I wanted to communicate my feelings freely": A descriptive study of creative responses to enhance reflection in palliative medicine education. BMC Medical Education, 15, 180. doi: 10.1186/s12909-015-0465-4
Moss, C., Nelson, K., Connor, M., Wensley, C., McKinlay, E., & Boulton, A. (2015). Patient experience in the emergency department: Inconsistencies in the ethic and duty of care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(1-2), 275-288. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12612
McKinlay, E. M., Gallagher, P. A., Gray, L. A., Wilson, C. L., & Pullon, S. R. H. (2015). Sixteen months “from square one”: The process of forming an interprofessional clinical teaching team. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice & Education, 5(2). Retrieved from http://www.jripe.org/index.php/journal/article/view/191
Morgan, S., Pullon, S., & McKinlay, E. (2015). Observation of interprofessional collaborative practice in primary care teams: An integrative literature review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52, 1217-1230. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.03.008
McKinlay, E., Graham, S., & Horrill, P. (2015). Culturally and linguistically diverse patients’ views of multimorbidity and general practice care. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(3), 228-235.
Barthow, C., Jones, B., Macdonald, L., Vernall, S., Gallagher, P., & McKinlay, E. (2015). Researching in the community: The value and contribution of nurses to community based or primary health care research. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 16, 224-234. doi: 10.1017/s1463423614000097
Darlow, B., Coleman, K., McKinlay, E., Donovan, S., Beckingsale, L., Gray, B., Neser, H., Perry, M., Stanley, J., & Pullon, S. (2015). The positive impact of interprofessional education: A controlled trial to evaluate a programme for health professional students. BMC Medical Education, 15, 98. doi: 10.1186/s12909-015-0385-3
McKinlay, E., & Donnelly, S. (2014). Learning through narrative writing: Medical students talk to patients in a hospice. Focus on Health Professional Education, 16(1), 69-82.
McKinlay, E., McBain, L., Stanley, J., Johnston Taylor, E., & Robertson, G. (2014). Does multimodal palliative care education help medical students talk with patients at end-of-life? Focus on Health Professional Education, 15(3), 64-80.
Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., Beckingsale, L., Perry, M., Darlow, B., Gray, B., Gallagher, P., Hoare, K., & Morgan, S. (2013). Interprofessional education for physiotherapy, medical and dietetics students: A pilot programme. Journal of Primary Health Care, 5(1), 52-58.
McKinlay, E., Clendon, J., & O'Reilly, S. (2012). Is our focus right? Workforce development for primary health care nursing. Journal of Primary Health Care, 4(2), 141-149.
McKinlay, E., Mackie, S., Arcus, K., & Nelson, K. (2012). Work and wellness hand-in-hand: The role of the New Zealand PATHS program nurse in improving health and employment outcomes. Rehabilitation Nursing, 37(4), 185-194. doi: 10.1002/rnj.31
Nelson, K. M., Christensen, S., Aspros, B., McKinlay, E., & Arcus, K. (2011). Adding value to stretched communities through nursing actions: The Wellington South Nursing Initiative. Contemporary Nurse, 40(1), 87-102. doi: 10.5172/conu.2011.40.1.87
