Associate Professor
Amanda Fox
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Biography
Dr Amanda Fox is a clinician with over 18 years of nursing experience across acute and community settings. She is a passionate academic who values strong industry connections and the opportunity to contribute to the development of future generations of nurses and the nursing profession. Dr Fox currently holds a joint Associate Professor in Nursing position Metro North Health-Redcliffe Hospital and the Queensland University of technology (2022-2025). In this role she builds capability and supports clinicians to undertake high impact translatable research. Dr Fox has extensive experience teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level and was the Postgraduate Program Coordinator (2016-2021) in the School of Nursing, leading the Graduate Certificate in Nursing, Master of Advanced Practice Nursing and Masters of Nurse Practitioner Courses. She led the successful internal and professional re-accreditation of postgraduate courses in 2016/17 and 2021/22. Dr Fox held a NHMRC Capacity Building in Dementia Care Research Fellowship (2019-21). Her program of research focusses on care of the older adult in acute settings and advanced practice nursing roles. Recent projects include implementation of a multidisciplinary hospital-wide program to improve health outcomes for people with cognitive impairment in acute care settings, identifying in-hospital adverse events and functional decline and, evaluating strategies adopted by clinicians to enable care. Dr Fox is leading a national survey of registered nurses to explore the introduction of nurse prescribing under supervision. Dr Fox is keen to supervise HDR students in the field of acute care of the older adult, health service innovation and advanced practice nursing roles.Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Nursing
Keywords
Advanced Practice Nursing, Health Service Innovation, Health Services Research, Teaching and Learning
Research field
Nursing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Graduate Diploma in Health (Queensland University of Technology)
Teaching
Dr Fox is an experienced academic who has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level for over 10 years in the tertiary setting. From 2016-2021 she was the Postgraduate Course Coordinator and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing. She delivers the core specialty leadership unit in the postgraduate nursing course and continues to support students in dissertation and project units to successful completion. Dr Fox is currently supporting two joint Metro North Health/ QUT research fellowship recipients to lead clinical research in their health services.
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Amanda, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).