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Professor Clint Douglas
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Biography
As a clinical academic, Prof Clint Douglas’ research focus is at the intersection of practice development, knowledge translation and patient safety. With a clinical background in acute care nursing, he leads a research program to optimise the influence of nursing to keep patients safe: prevention of patient deterioration in general wards, the impact of hospital nurse staffing on patient outcomes, and evaluation of innovative nurse-led services.He has a successful track-record of building collaborative academic partnerships with clinicians, hospital executives and policy makers to design and execute complex and rigorous health services research—reflected in his appointment as joint Professor and Nursing Chair at Metro North Health.
Prof Douglas is known for leading large-scale acute hospital research on systems change and patient safety. For example, he recently led the NHMRC-funded ENCORE trial: a multi-site cluster-randomised trial to transform nursing assessment in medical-surgical wards. His work is published in high impact journals, such as The Lancet: Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: A prospective study in a panel of hospitals. Prof Douglas coordinates the QUT-Metro North Nursing Research Internship Scholarship program: Watch videos of example intern projects here and recent interns and research students here.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor and Nursing Chair, Faculty of Health and Metro North Hospital and Health Service
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Research field
Nursing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- MClinEpi (University of Newcastle)
- MMedStat (University of Newcastle)
- BN (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing (FACN)
Member of the International Practice Development Collaborative (iPDc)
Publications
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/c2.douglas
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Establishing safe Post Anaesthetic Care Unit patient discharge criteria
PhD, Principal Supervisor - How does multidisciplinary teamwork support the recognition and response of patient deterioration in the cardiac catheter laboratory?
MPhil, Principal Supervisor - Transforming Dementia Care: Implementing a Dementia-Friendly Environment and Evidence-Based Interventions in Acute Hospital Settings
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Suzanne Williams - Understanding and enhancing the care provided in short-stay mental health inpatient settings: How should we measure success?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Debbie Long - Workforce Flexibility in Nursing: A Critical Exploration
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Carol Windsor
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Struggle, Distress and Power: An Exploration of the Better Access Initiative and the Historical Influence of Dominant Ideologies on Mental Health Policy in Australia (2026)
- Development of a Telehealth Guideline and Evaluation of the Feasibility of a Telehealth Intervention to Facilitate Foot Self-Care Behaviour Among Adults with Type II Diabetes in Nepal (2024)
- The kids pain collaborative: A collaborative implementation study of acute paediatric pain care in the emergency department (2023)
- Exploring the Acuity and Dependency of Adult Ward Patients Following Medical Emergency Team Review: The REMAIN Study (2022)
- Strengthening Nursing Surveillance in General Wards: A Practice Development Approach (2020)
- Person-Centred Care in Chronic Kidney Disease: The CKD-SMS Study (2018)
- Self-Management Program for People with Chronic Kidney Disease in Vietnam: A Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial (2018)
- Exploring Symptom Clusters in People with Chronic Kidney Disease (2017)
- Nurse Practitioner Led Pain Management the Day after Caesarean Section: A Randomised Controlled Trial (2017)
- An Exploration of the Role of Nurses Working in Emergency Care Services In General Hospitals in Indonesia (2016)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.