Rate My Professor Philippa Seaton

Professor Philippa Seaton serves as Professor in the Department of Nursing and Director of the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She joined the Centre for Postgraduate Nursing Studies in 2014, advancing to full professorial rank. Her academic background includes a PhD from Griffith University, MA (Hons) from Massey University, BA in Nursing and Education, and registration as a nurse (RN). Seaton's research specializations centre on nursing education, encompassing instructional design, e-learning, technology-enhanced learning, online and mobile learning, simulation, and nursing students' patient safety competencies. She leads the graduate entry Master of Nursing Science (MNSc) programme, a two-year pathway to nursing registration.

Seaton has made substantial contributions to nursing scholarship through peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals. Prominent works include 'Clinical learning environments: place, artefacts and rhythm' (Sheehan et al., Medical Education, 2017; cited 62 times), analysing clinical settings for nursing learners; 'Qualitative meta-synthesis: the experience of chronic pain across conditions' (Crowe et al., Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2017; cited 128 times), synthesizing patient experiences; 'A cross-sectional survey of nursing students' patient safety competencies' (Levett-Jones et al., Nurse Education Today, 2020; cited 98 times); 'Nurse perspectives of nurse-sensitive indicators for positive patient outcomes: A Delphi study' (Steel et al., Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2021; cited 17 times); and 'The COVID-19 pandemic: Analysing nursing risk, care and careerscapes' (Thompson et al., Nursing Inquiry, 2022; cited 17 times). Additional recent publications cover establishing quality standards for graduate entry nursing curricula (Gerdtz et al., 2021), facilitating in-situ simulations (2021), nurses' experiences in rural interprofessional simulation (Van Asperen et al., 2023), and research publication performance of nursing professoriates (McKenna et al., 2025). With over 1,880 citations on ResearchGate, her work influences nursing pedagogy, interprofessional practice, and clinical innovations. Seaton supervises postgraduate research on topics including wound cleansing techniques, nurse teletriage, stroke pathway implementation, continuous glucose monitoring, and mindful breathing for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.