Amy Johnston is a Research Fellow at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, at the University of Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours, Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Diploma in Adult Education, Master of Education, PhD, and is a Registered Nurse. Her academic and professional career encompasses significant roles in nursing research and education. Previously, she served as a Research Associate at Griffith University within the Emergency Care division at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service and the Menzies Health Institute Queensland. Earlier experience includes Laboratory Manager at the University of New England's Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour. Johnston's research centres on enhancing emergency department care delivery, staff well-being, and patient outcomes. Key areas include occupational violence risk assessment in emergency settings, fatigue management strategies for shiftworking nurses, the impact of adverse childhood experiences on frequent emergency presenters, mental health presentations, paediatric sepsis recognition and management, nurse-sensitive indicators, prisoner healthcare, electrocardiogram interpretation by nurses, clinical practice assessment policies, and the effects of mass gathering events on health services.

Johnston has an extensive publication record exceeding 157 works, with notable contributions such as 'The risk of repeated self-harm and suicide after emergency department presentation with self-harm in mental health presenters: a retrospective cohort study with data linkage in Queensland, Australia' (2025), 'A mixed method approach to how shiftworking emergency department (ED) nurses reduce the effects of fatigue and differences in strategies between those with varying levels of fatigue' (2024), ''I've got to go in there with my armour on': Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Adults Who Frequently Attend Emergency Departments' (2024), 'Introducing a Digital Occupational Violence Risk Assessment Tool Into an Emergency Department: A Pilot Implementation Study' (2023), 'Emergency nursing nurse sensitive indicators: An integrative review' (2022), and 'Validity and reliability of the novel three‐item occupational violence patient risk assessment tool' (2022). Her work has garnered 4,609 citations, demonstrating substantial influence in emergency nursing research. She developed and validated tools like the three-item occupational violence risk assessment and contributed to initiatives such as the Queensland Pediatric Sepsis Breakthrough Collaborative.

Professional Email: amy.johnston@uq.edu.au