Jillian Thomson

Lecturer

Master of Health Professional Education

Email: jillian.thomson1@nd.edu.au
Phone: (08) 9192 0626

• Biography

  Jillian spent fourteen years as a Clinical Nurse Educator with a large private hospital in Perth supporting students, graduates, mandatory competencies, specialist education including continence, urology, oncology, haematology and intermediate life support.  She was very involved with RN Re-entry and Bridging for Overseas Trained Nurses including assisting with accreditation of several of these courses. When required she undertook the Acting Training Managers role and participated in a number of organizational committees as well as assisted with auditing. Upon completion of her Masters she worked as a sessional with ECU supporting Masters pathway students with clinical skills in the labs. Prior to working for Notre Dame, Broome Campus, she was the Course Coordinator for Diploma of Nursing (VET) students and Post Graduate Diploma of Nursing students for the Institute of Health & Nursing  & the Institute of Nursing Management.

• Teaching areas

  Lecturing, tutoring, clinical facilitation, clinical skills - laboratory and mentoring enrolled nursing students and registered nursing students.

• Research expertise and supervision

  Masters Thesis - Registered Nurses experiences of medication administration errors: Human factors.

• Conference papers

  • The National Nursing Forum 2018 - August, Gold Coast - Human factors in Registered Nurse medication administration error.
  • ICIN 2018 - November, Perth - Why consider human factors in medication administration errors?