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Dr Amy Johnston

Senior Lecturer

School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
amy.johnston@uq.edu.au
+61 7 344 37138

Overview

Dr Amy Johnston currently holds a conjoint senior research fellow/senior lecturer position between University of QLD and Metro South Hospital & Health Service, Department of Emergency Medicine (based at Princess Alexandra hospital) and senior lectureship in School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work. For the past 4 years she worked across the academic and healthcare environments to conduct her own research as well as supporting clinicians to develop the skills and confidence to participate in, and conduct research projects relevant to their clinical work. Amy is a neurobiologist and nurse with extensive teaching and research experience and a particular interest in Emergency Department service delivery and patient flow. Her wide experience has helped her develop a broadening national and international profile. She has co-authored in excess of 70 (79) publications, 98 abstracts, between awarded approximately $0.6million in grant funding, and supported 3 PhD candidates to completion with another 5 currently working towards their PhD qualifications. Her H-index is 17 (Scopus), google scholar is 21, with i10 index of 27.

Researcher ID B-2931-2010; ORCID 0000-0002-9979-997X

Research Interests

  • Clinical Biosciences
    Nursing is a continually evolving profession that requires practitioners that have both hands-on skills and an underpinning, knowledge-based questioning approach that ensures that they are always able to provide patients with the best possible care. Thus, as a nursing academic it is my shared responsibility to support nursing students to develop the capacity to continually seek current evidence, integrate that evidence into their practice and then reflect on and evaluate their practice. A nurse who can communicate clearly and effectively with a client, undertake a thorough patient assessment, critically clinically reason, synthesis evidence and then implement individualised common sense solutions for consumers that is based on their personal needs and on sound foundational knowledge and research evidence is the ideal outcome of any program I help deliver.
  • Emergency Care
    My developing research profile is eclectic, but currently centred around patient safety, in all its aspects, in emergency care, particularly from a nursing and multidisciplinary perspective. I am involved in number of research projects including projects linking various pre-hospital and hospital data sources to better understand the patient journey and outcomes, that evaluate Service Delivery (Patient Flow) models that include the Emergency Department such as specialist staff roles (ambulance offload nurse) and combinations of staff roles and units (early assessment and streaming system). I am also central to multi-site projects evaluating hospital avoidance strategies linked to mass gathering events such as ‘schoolies’ and ‘marathon’ leading forward into care delivery for Commonwealth games. I am PI on a project examining workforce factors that impact on ED staff at a state, and International level, with sites as far as Sweden. My most recent projects include exploring recognition and response to sepsis by registered nurses in emergency departments. I am contributing to projects exploring Occupational violence with EDs and documentation of domestic violence in EDs.

Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Audit and Cont Edu, The Open University, UK
  • Bachelor of Science, University of New England
  • Bachelor of Nursing, Griffith University
  • Master of Education, Open
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England

Publications

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Supervision

  • An exploration of the barriers and enablers to the utilisation of evidenced based medication safety initiatives by nurses in emergency departments

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • Alterations of neurological function across the lifespan

    Johnston, A. N. B. and Barton, M. (2019). Alterations of neurological function across the lifespan. In J. Craft, C. Gordon and A. Tiziani (Ed.), Understanding pathophysiology 3rd ed. (pp. 171-190) Sydney: Mosby Elsevier.

  • Concepts of neurological dysfunction

    Johnston, A. N. B. and Thompson, S. (2019). Concepts of neurological dysfunction. In J. Craft, C. Gordon and A. Tiziani (Ed.), Understanding pathophysiology 3rd ed. (pp. 150-170) Sydney: Mosby Elsevier.

  • The structure and function of the neurological system

    Johnston, A. N. B (2019). The structure and function of the neurological system. In J. Craft and C. Gordon (Ed.), Understanding pathophysiology 3rd ed. (pp. 100-125) Sydney: Mosby Elsevier.

  • Management of Health Emergencies

    Kunst, E., Wadham, J., Thompson, S., Peddle, M., Elder, E., Brown, A-M. and Johnston, A. N. B. (2018). Management of Health Emergencies. In Gilbert, J. and Coyne, E. (Ed.), Acute Nursing Care 1st ed. (pp. 190-220) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

  • Nose, Mouth and Throat

    Johnston, A. N. B. (2015). Nose, Mouth and Throat. In Carolyn Jarvis (Ed.), Physical Examination and Health Assessment 7th ed. (pp. 1-1) St Louis MO United States: Elsevier.

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • An exploration of the barriers and enablers to the utilisation of evidenced based medication safety initiatives by nurses in emergency departments

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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ResearcherID: B-2931-2010

ORCID: 0000-0002-9979-997X

Scopus ID: 7401752786

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