Rate My Professor Susan Timpani

Dr Susan Timpani serves as a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health, at Adelaide University. Her extensive academic background includes a PhD, registration as a Registered Nurse (RN), a Master of Clinical Education/Research, Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education, Graduate Certificate in Child, Adolescent and Family Health Nursing, Bachelor of Nursing (Post-Registration), Hospital Certificate of Midwifery, and Hospital Certificate of General Nursing. These qualifications underscore her strong foundation in clinical nursing practice, midwifery, and educational research, with connections to UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences.

Timpani's research specializations focus on nursing education, employing arts-based pedagogies such as storytelling and narrative inquiry to foster reflection among nursing students during clinical placements. Her key publications include 'A narrative inquiry of storytelling: a learning strategy for nursing students to reflect on their interactions with patients' published in Reflective Practice in 2022, and 'Storytelling: One arts-based learning strategy to reflect on clinical placement. An integrative review' in Nurse Education in Practice in 2021, both co-authored with Linda Sweet and Nina Sivertsen. Additional works encompass 'Storytelling during Clinical Facilitation: An Arts-Based Narrative Inquiry' from 2020 and contributions to the Homeless Health and Housing Forum in 2004. She teaches a range of undergraduate courses, including HLTH 1036 Global and National Health, HLTH 1047 First Peoples' Health, NURS 3045 Nursing Context of Practice: Primary Health Care, NURS 1071 Experiential Learning Activity: Aged Care Practicum 2, and NURS 1073 Health of Older People. Her scholarly interests extend to the experiences of international nursing students amid COVID-19 border closures and historical nursing developments, such as child neglect at the Grace Darling Hotel in 1867 and its role in founding South Australia's first Nurse Training School and Adelaide Children’s Hospital.