Rate My Professor Cate McCall

Cate McCall is a Lecturer in the Department of Nursing at the University of Otago, Christchurch, within the Division of Health Sciences. A Registered Nurse (RN) with a Master of Health Sciences (MHealSc) and a PhD awarded in 2024 from the University of Otago, her doctoral research focused on "The clinical course and personal experience of sepsis," providing qualitative insights into patients' experiences with this serious condition. Her academic career at Otago emphasizes advancing nursing knowledge through research and education, including leading the Master of Nursing Science Programme.

McCall's research specializations include infections, sepsis, and pain management. She has explored the patient experience and early clinical course of sepsis, as well as collaborative studies using the interRAI dataset to investigate pain prevalence and its relationships to falls, fatigue, and depression in community-dwelling older adults. Key publications co-authored by her encompass Crequer et al. (2025), "Clustering of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalised adults in the Christchurch Region: association with socio-economic deprivation," published in the New Zealand Medical Journal; Crowe, Inder, and McCall (2023), "The experience of antidepressant use and discontinuation: A qualitative synthesis of the evidence," in the Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing; Burmeister et al. (2021), "Use of a real-time virtual patient simulation for interprofessional distance education: A pilot study," in Pharmacy Education; and McCall, Crowe, and Carr (2021), "Understanding the patient experience and early clinical course of sepsis," in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. She supervises postgraduate students on diverse topics such as adolescents' experiences with Type 1 diabetes, recurrent urinary tract infections, bladder cancer diagnosis, and health care worker experiences in aged residential care.