Rate My Professor Judith Needham

Judith Needham is a Senior Lecturer and Professional Practice Director in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University, part of Griffith Health. She earned a Doctor of Education (EdD), Master of Nursing (Management), Bachelor of Nursing, and holds registrations as a registered nurse (RN) and registered midwife (RM). Her career at Griffith University, dating back to at least 2012, centers on coordinating professional practice and managing clinical placements for undergraduate nursing students at the Logan Campus.

Her academic interests and research focus on nurse-led wound care for chronic conditions, including client and family experiences and community-based outcomes; volunteering in dementia care in hospitals, aged care, and residential settings; clinical facilitation of undergraduate nurses; placements in specialty areas such as prison healthcare and during disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic; near-peer teaching; and student medication calculation proficiency. Key publications include "The client and family experience of attending a nurse-led clinic for chronic wounds" (2023, co-authored with A. Dhar et al.), "Supporting learners in prison healthcare work-integrated learning settings through simulation: a cross-sectional study" (2023), "A program quality framework: a collaborative teaching team approach to quality assurance during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2023, co-authored with T. van de Mortel et al.), "The outcomes and experience of people receiving community-based nurse-led wound care: A systematic review" (2020), "Clinical facilitators' experience of near peer learning in undergraduate nursing students" (2020, co-authored with S. Henderson et al.), "Volunteering in dementia care in an Australian hospital: A phenomenological study" (2019), and "Best practice in clinical facilitation of undergraduate nursing students" (2016). Needham has contributed to funded research, such as the 2018 Australasian Council of Deans of Nursing grant evaluating near-peer learning and National Association for Field Experience Administrators projects on work-integrated learning amid COVID-19. She serves on the editorial team for WIL in Practice and has participated in committees defining research priorities for nursing clinical placements, enhancing nursing education and practice integration.