Mr Frank Donnelly

RN, BNurs, GradDipNursSc(Intensive Care), MNSc, Grad Cert Education (Higher Education)

Frank is the Course Coordinator for first year within the Bachelor of Nursing program.  His previous teaching roles included facilitation of the Graduate Diploma in Nursing Science (Intensive Care). Frank has spent most of his nursing career in the intensive care setting and has always enjoyed teaching, from undergraduate to postgraduate levels of nursing staff. Frank has completed his Master of Nursing Science, studying patient's experiences during the change of a tracheostomy tube.

Donnelly F and Wiechula R (2006) The lived experience of a tracheostomy tube change: a phenomenological study. Journal of Clinical Nursing 15: 1115-1122.

Frank is enrolled in a PhD at The University of Adelaide considering the relationship between nurse sensitive patient outcomes and curriculum models within nursing education.