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
NSN829: Specialist Primary Health Care
Sandra is recongised 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
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Sandra, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
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
Current supervisions
- An in-depth exploration of the ways in which organisational contexts shape nursing practice in the emergency department in Vietnam
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Amanda Fox, Professor Carol Windsor - The impact of moulage on participant engagement: what does 'making it real', mean?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Carol Windsor - The conceptualisation of filial piety among Vietnamese migrants in Queensland: A changing trajectory
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Amanda Fox, Professor Carol Windsor, Dr Heena Akbar
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.