Paul is an Associate Professor at Adelaide University and has a joint role with St Andrew's Hospital in Innovations in Safety and Quality.Paul is Registered Nurse and trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1989. He has since then completed a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of South Australia, a Graduate Diploma in Orthopaedic Nursing and the Master of Nursing Science and PhD at the University of Adelaide.He worked in a number of positions at the Royal Adelaide Hospital over 23 years and has been lecturing in the Adelaide Nursing School at the University of Adelaide since 2010 where he co-ordinated the Orthopaedic Graduate Diploma Program, supervises students in a number of courses in the Master of Nursing Science and Bachelor of Nursing programs. And Program Director in the Adeliade Nursing School for 5 years.He was the education officer for the Centre for Evidence-based Practice South Australia (CEPSA): An affiliated centre of JBI.He was the president of the Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Nurses Association (2013-2015) and the South Australian Orthopaedic Nurses (2014-2016). He is deputy editor of the International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing and reviewers for 10 international journals. Teaching interests include eLearning, virtual reality, orthopaedic nursing, bariatric nursing, occupational health and safety, virtual learning and teaching and Systematic Review training.He is a teaching specialist with the Adelaide Academy, a member of the College of Reviewers and was a member of Academic Board at the University of AdelaideHe has developed expertise in the emerging field off Safety II, Systems thinking and Complex Adaptive Systems theory and how that can be used to strengthen safety learning and systems design in healthcare. His PhD considered how the design and implementation of healthcare system requires nurses to conduct and document patient assessments- and how the complexity and inefficiency of those requirements have increased over time leading to a range of poorly recognised and measured unintended consequences that add to patient risks.
Paul is an Associate Professor at Adelaide University and has a joint role with St Andrew's Hospital in Innovations in Safety and Quality.
Paul is Registered Nurse and trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1989. He has since then completed a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of South Australia, a Graduate Diploma in Orthopaedic Nursing and the Master of Nursing Science and PhD at the University of Adelaide.He worked in a number of positions at the Royal Adelaide Hospital over 23 years and has been lecturing in the Adelaide Nursing School at the University of Adelaide since 2010 where he co-ordinated the Orthopaedic Graduate Diploma Program, supervises students in a number of courses in the Master of Nursing Science and Bachelor of Nursing programs. And Program Director in the Adeliade Nursing School for 5 years.He was the education officer for the Centre for Evidence-based Practice South Australia (CEPSA): An affiliated centre of JBI.He was the president of the Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Nurses Association (2013-2015) and the South Australian Orthopaedic Nurses (2014-2016). He is deputy editor of the International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing and reviewers for 10 international journals. 
Teaching interests include eLearning, virtual reality, orthopaedic nursing, bariatric nursing, occupational health and safety, virtual learning and teaching and Systematic Review training.He is a teaching specialist with the Adelaide Academy, a member of the College of Reviewers and was a member of Academic Board at the University of Adelaide
 
He has developed expertise in the emerging field off Safety II, Systems thinking and Complex Adaptive Systems theory and how that can be used to strengthen safety learning and systems design in healthcare. 
 
His PhD considered how the design and implementation of healthcare system requires nurses to conduct and document patient assessments- and how the complexity and inefficiency of those requirements have increased over time leading to a range of poorly recognised and measured unintended consequences that add to patient risks.
His focus in the shared role with St Andrew's is on integration of the principles of Safety II, Systems thinking and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory into the Safety Framework in the hospital to improve both patient safety but ensuring systems design is meeting the needs of those in healthcare (user, patients and healthcare staff).