Ms Pauline Calleja

Background

Pauline’s nursing background has spanned many specialty areas, including

• medical
• surgical
• ophthalmic theatres
• emergency nursing
• post acute wound care and home intravenous therapy programs
• general practice (rural)

Her main interests and experiences revolve around emergency and trauma nursing and communication within the health care team and provision of care. Pauline has spent the majority of time nursing in areas which have diverse populations, including indigenous and tourist populations. Pauline has been teaching in the higher education sector for the past ten years at diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Pauline’s main teaching interests include:

• teaching students’ health assessment, physical examination and clinical reasoning in clinical and academic settings,
• postgraduate courses for emergency nursing
• developing and supporting clinical teaching abilities/skills of health care professionals
• developing full immersion high fidelity simulation experiences, and
• supporting students and clinical teachers while students are on clinical placement.

 Her experiences in special projects include teaching Indigenous Primary healthcare workers, developing capacity for clinical teaching in Viet Nam and developing leadership skills in Australian clinical teachers.

Project highlights

• 2011: Exploring the effect of a strategy that directs thinking for facilitating the development of advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills in third year nursing students engaged in high fidelity case-based simulation. Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Health internal research grant.
• 2009-2010: Information transfer for multi-trauma patients upon discharge from the Emergency Department, Queensland Nursing Council research grant: category of Novice Researcher.
• 2009-2010: What real nurses do: Undergraduate students’ perceptions of clinical nursing education, Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Health internal research grant.
• 2008 – 2010: Enhancing student learning in the workplace through developing the leadership capabilities of clinical supervisors in the nursing discipline, Australian Learning and Teaching Council Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program.
• 2008 – 2010: Strengthening nurse-led institutional capacity for in-service education and clinical teaching in Hanoi, Viet Nam, AUSAid Public Sector Linkages Program.