Associate Professor
Sandra Johnston
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Biography
Sandra Johnston is the Director of Clinical Partnerships, in the School of Nursing (SoN), Queensland University of Technology. Sandra’s role as Director of Clinical Partnerships involves collaboration with external health care partners, clinical unit coordinators, clinical facilitators, the Work Integrated Learning Support Team and students, to ensure quality clinical experiences for undergraduate nursing students. Sandra is an experienced academic who has extensive teaching and learning experience and demonstrated leadership in curriculum design and implementation within the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing, Master of Nursing- Entry to Practice and post graduate courses in the SoN. Sandra's research has a strong work integrated learning focus with a special interest in nursing students and student learning.- simulated learning and transfer to practice
- simulation and deterioration and preparing students for practice
- clinical placement
- workplace violence and students
- interprofessional education
Personal details
Positions
- Director of Clinical Partnerships
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Keywords
simulation, undergraduate nursing students, clinical placement, workplace violence, interprofessional education
Research field
Nursing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- RN. BHlthSc, Grad Cert Sexual Health, MBA (MBA CONFIRMED) (University of Southern Qld)
- Graduate Certificate Academic Practice (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Certificate Sexual health (Griffith University)
Professional memberships and associations
Phi Delta-At Large Chapter, SIGMA
Teaching
Sandra teaches across a variety of nursing undergraduate and postgraduate units and currently coordinates :
NSN911:Nursing Therapeutics : Acute and Community Care
NSN828: Contemporary Issues in Primary Care
NSN829: Specialist Primary Health Care
HLN405: Qualitative Research
Sandra is recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Associate Fellow (Indigenous). She is an Honorary Visiting Nursing /Midwifery Education Senior Fellow Metro North Health.
Publications
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/sandra.johnston
Awards
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Associate Fellow (Indigenous)
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Honorary Visiting Fellow Nursing and Midwifery
- Type
- Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Senior Fellow
Supervision
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Current supervisions
- A critical exploration of the construction of emergency nursing practice in the context of Vietnam
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Amanda Fox, Professor Carol Windsor - How do they do it? Simulation, nursing assessment skills, context: a Vygotskian exploration
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Carol Windsor - Exploring HIV/AIDS survivorship for people diagnosed before the advent of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) medication in Australia
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Carol Windsor
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.