Laura Hynes

RN, BN, PG Cert in Critical Care Nursing, MN, PhD Candidate
Lecturer

Email: laura.hynes@nd.edu.au

  • Biography

    Laura is a lecturer within the School of Nursing and Midwifery and has been working within the school since 2019.  Laura continues to work clinically in a tertiary Adult Intensive Care Unit as a Registered Nurse where she has held roles in Staff Development and Education. Laura played a role in the upskilling training of ward based staff prior to and during the global COIVD 19 pandemic. Laura has experience in many specialty areas of nursing including, critical care, accident and emergency, paediatrics, urology, colorectal, ENT, and plastics. Laura’s interests include Paediatrics, Primary and Public Health Care, Critical Care and Skills simulation.

    Laura endeavors to provide students with a safe environment in which students can strive for excellence. Laura gains great satisfaction in providing students with current evidence based practice and real word clinical examples. Laura is extremely passionate about delivering exemplary learning sessions that facilitate optimal learning outcomes which foster and support students. Thereby helping the students to reach their full potential as critically thinking, flexible, kind, and compassionate registered nurses to be, who work with and advocate for their patients in making informed health care decisions.

  • Teaching areas

    • Clinical Skills
    • Health Assessment in Nursing
    • Foundations of Nursing
    • Fundamentals of Nursing
    • Primary Healthcare

  • Research expertise and supervision

    • Laura has undertaken several mixed-methods research studies. Her academic strengths and research interests include nursing and midwifery workforce issues, such as retention strategies in healthcare, the impact of job satisfaction on patient care, work-life balance in healthcare, and the influence of leadership and management on nursing and midwifery teams. Additionally, she is passionate about end-of-life care (EOLC) and addressing the barriers to delivering it in the ICU setting. Laura is driven by her commitment to improving workforce conditions and the overall wellbeing of nursing and midwifery professionals.
    • Laura actively supervises Nursing and Midwifery Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students.

  • Journal articles and proceedings

    • Hynes L, Coventry T, Russell K. Intensive care nurse’s perceptions on barriers impeding the provision of end of life care in the intensive care setting: a quantitative analysis. Aust J Adv Nurs [Internet]. 2022 Feb. 28 [cited 2022 Feb. 28];39(1). Available from: https://doi.org/10.37464/2020.391.214

  • Professional affiliations

    • Australian College of Critical Care Nurses
    • Western Australia Simulation in Healthcare Alliance
    • Australian College of Nurses
    • Australian Nursing Federation
    • Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

  • Awards

    • The Office of the Chief Nurse Florence Nightingale Award for Best Short Research Presentation Runner Up, 2020.
    • The University of Notre Dame Australia: School of Nursing and Midwifery Alumnus of the Year Award, 2019.
    • President’s Award Runner Up for Excellence in Critical Care Nursing, 2016.