Ms Alyssa Cormick
School of Nursing and Midwifery
College of Health
Alyssa Cormick is a non-Indigenous research assistant with the Aboriginal Kidney care together: improving outcomes now (AKction) research project. Following the completion of her undergraduate studies at the Australian National University, Alyssa moved to the University of Adelaide to undertake an honours degree in psychology, and while doing so, she became involved with the AKction project. Alyssa's current position involves supporting ongoing research projects with AKction’s Aboriginal reference group members and research team.
Research Projects
AKction 2: Aboriginal Kidney Care, Improving Outcomes Now (April 2021 – March 2026)
Aim: to improve the experience and outcomes of kidney care for and with Aboriginal patients, families and community members and kidney health services in South Australia.
Substudies:
- Indigenous governance
- Kidney journey mapping
- patient support & patient navigators
- cultural safety in kidney care
Role: Research Assistant
Health Journey Mapping (The University of Adelaide AKction Research Project & The Lowitja Institute) (2021 –2022)
Aim: to codesign a mapping resource that could be used by healthcare professionals to map health journeys and promote cultural safety
Method: using a codesign and participatory action research approach. Development was informed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and family members, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous health professionals.
Results: developed three mapping tools and education resources
Role: Research Assistant
AKction 1: Aboriginal Kidney Care, Improving Outcomes Now (2021)
Aim: to provide opportunities for Aboriginal kidney patients and family members, health professionals, health services, academics and researchers to work together to improve kidney care in South Australia.
Methods: Aboriginal community consultations, focus groups, patient journey mapping, identification of barriers and enablers and effective strategies for improvment, education package development for staff and students
Results: Voices of Aboriginal people with kidney disease were heard and their journeys publicised. Their stories and experiences were shared to inform and improve health services in South Australia and beyond.
- Dreaming big: building a movement in Aboriginal kidney healthcare
https://www.croakey.org/dreaming-big-building-a-movement-in-aboriginal-kidney-healthcare/ - Holding that space: game-changing kidney project has ‘research activism at its core’
https://www.croakey.org/holding-that-space-game-changing-kidney-project-has-research-activism-at-its-core/ - More than a patient: cultural and clinical knowledge on a healing journey
https://www.croakey.org/more-than-a-patient-cultural-and-clinical-knowledge-on-a-healing-journey/?utm_campaign
Role: Research Assistant
Health Journey Mapping to Identify Strength and Resilience as experienced by an Aboriginal Woman with Kidney Disease, Psychology Honours Research Project, 2021.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 - ongoing | Research Assistant | University of Adelaide |
| 2015 - 2020 | Disability Support Worker | Hartley Lifecare |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2023 | Flinders University | Australia | Graduate Diploma in Counselling (Behavioural Health) |
| 2021 | University of Adelaide | Australia | Honours Degree of Bachelor of Psychological Science |
| 2020 | Charles Darwin University | Australia | Graduate Certificate in Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases |
| 2016 - 2020 | Australian National University | Australia | Bachelor of Science (Psychology) and Bachelor of Medical Science |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Kelly, J., Graham, A., Owen, K., Arnold-Chamney, M., Lester, R., Cormick, A., . . . O'Donnell, K. (2022). Health Journey Mapping for busy clinical settings, detailed care planning and strategic evaluation. In https://eventstudio.eventsair.com/hsr-2022/conference-handbook-e-proceedings. Sydney. |
| Date | Topic | Presented at | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 - ongoing | Health Journey Mapping to Identify Strength and Resilience as experienced by an Aboriginal Woman with Kidney Disease | Adelaide Nursing School Conversazione | The University of Adelaide | Australia |
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