Rate My Professor Samantha Walsh

Samantha Walsh serves as a Lecturer in Nursing within the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast, stationed at the UniSC Fraser Coast campus. Her academic qualifications include a Master of Advanced Practice in Emergency Nursing from Griffith University, a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Wollongong, a Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning from the University of Southern Queensland, and a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment from TAFE Queensland Wide Bay. She began her tertiary teaching career in 2010, focusing on educating undergraduate nurses and supporting health professionals across various levels through innovative teaching and learning strategies.

Walsh brings extensive clinical experience, having spent over 15 years in emergency departments across regional New South Wales and Queensland, after relocating to regional Queensland in 2005. In her clinical roles, she led implementations of evidence-based handover practices, developed a Paediatric Advanced Life Support training program, introduced Broselow trolleys for paediatric emergencies, and spearheaded quality improvements in patient care. Her research specializations center on the experiences, engagement, and support needs of nursing students in regional and remote clinical placements; interprofessional education and simulation-based learning; advancements in nursing education pedagogy; coordination of disaster and multi-trauma management training for regional nurses; improvements in safety and quality outcomes within emergency nursing; and ongoing professional development for emergency nursing staff. Notable publications include "‘Speaking up for safety’: A graded assertiveness intervention for first year nursing students in preparation for clinical placement (Thematic analysis)" (Nurse Education Today, 2020, cited over 75 times), "Preregistration nursing students' motivation for speaking up for patient safety: An integrated literature review" (Nurse Education in Practice, 2024), and "A descriptive phenomenological study of the lived experiences of preregistration nursing students who use graded assertiveness to speak up for patient safety during work-integrated learning" (Nurse Education Today, 2025). Additionally, she has developed and published evaluated lesson plans on speaking up for safety in simulated clinical environments and contributed to conference presentations such as "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander continuing education on Country: a shared learning journey" (2017). Walsh holds memberships in the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia, the Australasian Nurse Teachers Society, and the Australian College of Nursing.