Ms Annie Das

Senior Lecturer, Clinical Skills Coordinator (Laboratory)

BSc Nursing (Curtin), GradCertEHealth(UQ), MNurs(UNDA) 

Email: Annie.Das@nd.edu.au
Phone: 9433 0253

  • Biography

    Annie Das is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and is the laboratory Coordinator which entails teaching and assessment of all skills units throughout the 3 years in the undergrad curriculum. She has taught in many different units in the undergrad curriculum in the 10 years she has been with university.

    Her experience in higher education started in Edith Cowan University teaching in skills and communication units for 4 years including accreditation of students in basic life support. As an academic, Annie has been involved in various committees and hospital projects.

    Annie has been nursing for more than twenty years and still works as an agency nurse where she is employed in a wide variety of clinical settings.

  • Teaching areas

    Annie has held a position of laboratory coordinator since 2008. Her main role is to collaborate with unit coordinators to develop the content, method of teaching and assessments. She incorporates latest research and evidence based practices in the units and integrate simulation to authenticate skills that are taught.

  • Research expertise and supervision

    Integrating use of video for better outcomes in teaching and learning

  • Journal articles and proceedings

    Clark-Burg, K; Das, A & Alliex, S. (2010). An innovative educational experience: the use of video to enhance the learning of practical skills in the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Nursing Review. May 16-17.

  • Conference papers

    • Delegate at the 2nd International Congress on Innovations in Nursing 2005 paper on "Researching Medications: Is it a bitter pill to swallow for undergraduate nursing students?"
    • Delegate at the 4th International Congress on Innovations in Nursing 2009 presented paper "The use of video as an evaluating tool: the perceptions of staff and students in a School of Nursing."
    • Presented research paper on "The use of video as an evaluating tool: the perceptions of staff and students in a School of Nursing."
    • 2008 Royal College of Nursing Australia Annual Conference –Speaker Sheraton Hotel Perth WA (25 – 27 September 2008) Paper: "An Innovative Educational Experience: the Use of Video to Enhance Learning of Practical Skills in the Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum"
    • Royal College of Nursing, Joint Education Forums' 2nd International Conference and Exhibition - Speaker
      Thistle Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland (11-13 June 2009)
      Paper: "Videoing as a teaching and learning tool in an undergraduate nursing curriculum"
    • ALTC Collaborative Grant Project - The Physiotherapy, Health Science, Education, Nursing and Counselling (PHENC) Project (July 2009)
      Paper: 'Interactive video analysis to develop learning and assessment of university students' practical and communication skills'.
    • Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) West Australian Networking and Dissemination Forum – Curtin University, Bentley WA (November 2009)
    • Poster:" Interactive Video Method of Teaching and Assessment"

  • Awards

    Vice Chancellors award in 2011 for 'Initiatives that enhance student learning'.