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 Conjoint Professor and Nursing Chair at Metro North Hospital and Health Service. Prof Douglas is known for leading large-scale acute hospital research on systems change and patient safety. He is currently CIA on an NHMRC-funded multi-site cluster-randomised trial designed 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. Current higher degree research student projects (*Principal supervisor):- Anthony Batterbury (PhD candidate), Evaluating clinical acuity and dependency of deteriorating patients in general wards.
- *Natalie Rees (PhD student), Nursing workforce flexibility: A critical analysis
- *Suzanne Williams (PhD candidate), A collaborative implementation study of acute paediatric pain management in the emergency department.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor and Nursing Chair, Faculty of Health and Metro North Hospital and Health Service
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing- Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects - Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Research field
Nursing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
- MMedStat (University of Newcastle)
- MClinEpi (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)
Selected publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Clint, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Exploring the Acuity and Dependency of Adult Ward Patients Following Medical Emergency Team Review: The REMAIN Study (2022)
- A Bundled Phosphate Control Intervention (4Ds) for Adults with End Stage Kidney Disease Receiving Haemodialysis: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (2020)
- 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)
- Job Satisfaction, Stress and Burnout in Haemodialysis Nurses (2015)