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Associate Professor

Natisha Sands

Affiliate Associate Professor

Faculty of Health/School of Nursing & Midwifery

  • Affiliate Associate Professor
    Faculty of Health/School of Nursing & Midwifery
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Natisha Sands RPN BN (Hons) PhD. Natisha's research program investigates
mental health triage clinical practice, triage service delivery, mental health
in the emergency department, competency assessment, consumer perspectives, and
risk assessment.

Natisha Sands has been a mental health nurse since 1986, and completed her
training at the Eastern and Metropolitan School of Nursing, Royal Park
Hospital, Melbourne. Natisha worked in a wide variety of clinical roles before
completing a PhD in 2003 that involved a state-wide investigation of mental
health triage nursing in Victoria. Since completing her doctoral studies
Natisha has been committed to developing curricular to expand the mental
health triage theoretical knowledge base, developing evidence-based frameworks
for practice, and clinical education programs to support clinicians in
improving the quality and consistency of mental health triage. Natisha's
research program and consultancy work focuses on mental health triage clinical
practice, triage service delivery, mental health in the emergency department,
competency assessment, consumer perspectives, and risk assessment.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Affiliate Associate Professor
    Deakin University, School of Nursing and Midwifery

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    Deakin University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Geelong, Australia1 Dec 2009 - present

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Ballarat
  • Bachelor of Nursing
    Deakin University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Health services and systems
  • Nursing
  • Specialist studies in education

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Health

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Nursing & Midwifery