Dr David Foley
Senior Lecturer
School of Nursing and Midwifery
College of Health
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Dr David Foley is an education specialist with experience working and teaching in the United States and New Zealand. A registered nurse who trained in the Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne he completed his PhD in 2011; describing the care of people with intellectual disabilities in emergency departments. With 38 years of experience, David’s clinical role has predominantly been in emergency departments before becoming a postgraduate emergency educator, then Bachelor of Nursing lecturer.David is an experienced teacher, keen to develop competent and compassionate registered nurses. Competent nursing care delivered with empathy and compassion are the qualities that registered nurses need. The development of these attributes in his student nurses are central to David’s teaching practice. The problem for many nurses is compassion fatigue that contributes to burnout. So, in the Adelaide Nursing School, we are exploring the development of how best to teach empathy and practice compassion with satisfaction.An editor of 2 textbooks: Health Assessment in Nursing and McKenna's Drug Handbook for Nursing & Midwifery, he has also written several chapters on the care of people with an intellectual disability, care of older people and the use of simulation.He is responsible for coordinating the following courses:Microbiology and Infection Control, Chronic Disease and Disability, Health Assessment and Clinical Nursing and Applied Nursing PracticeHe has also taught the following coursesNursing Older People, Contexts of Nursing Practice, Applied Pharmacology in Nursing.
- Emergency care of people with intellectual disability
- Emergency nurses' encounters with difficult patients: an analysis of five published anecdotal accounts
- Development of a tool to improve end of life discussion in rural people with chronic disease”
- Improving the use of telehealth in rural emergency departments”
- Followership styles of nurses
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of South Australia | Australia | PhD | |
| University of South Australia | Australia | MNS | |
| University of Adelaide | Australia | BSc |
| Date | Title | Institution name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Registered Nurse | Royal Childrens Hospital | Australia |
| — | Certificate of Accident & Emergency Nursing | Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide | Australia |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2021 | SANJA, L. M. M., Mirkov, S., Foley, D., & Spiti, J. M. (2021). McKenna's Drug Handbook for Nursing and Midwifery Australia and New Zealand. |
| 2020 | Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (2020). . |
| 2014 | Lewis, P., & Foley, D. (2014). Health Assessment in Nursing (2 ed.). Lippincott WIlliams & Wilkins. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing people with intellectual disabilities. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing people with intellectual disabilities. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing pain: The fifth vital sign. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing pain: The fifth vital sign. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing older people. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing older people. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing general status and vital signs. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D. (2020). Assessing general status and vital signs. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D., & Aitkin, C. (2020). The value of simulation based learning. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2020 | Foley, D., & Aitkin, C. (2020). The value of simulation based learning. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing Australia and New Zealand (3rd ed.). |
| 2019 | Foley, D. (2019). People with disabilities. In K. Curtis, C. Ramsden, R. Z. Shaban, J. Considine, & M. Fry (Eds.), Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics (3rd ed., pp. 1059-1080). Chatswood, NSW, Australia: Elsevier. |
| 2015 | Foley, D. (2015). The Older Person. In K. Cutis, & C. Ramsden (Eds.), Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics (2nd ed.). Mosby Elsevier Health Science. |
| 2014 | Foley, D. (2014). Assessing Pain: The fifth vital sign. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing (2nd ed., pp. 109-128). North Ryde, NSW: Wolters Kluwer|Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. |
| 2014 | Foley, D. (2014). Assessing Older People. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing (2nd ed., pp. 736-772). |
| 2014 | Foley, D. (2014). Assessing people with intellectual disabilities. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing (2nd ed., pp. 806-818). North Ryde, NSW: Wolters Kluwer|Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. |
| 2014 | Foley, D. (2014). The value of simulation-based nursing. In P. Lewis, & D. Foley (Eds.), Health Assessment in Nursing (2nd ed., pp. 837-843). North Ryde, NSW: Wolters Kluwer|Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. |
| 2008 | Konick-McMahon, J., & Foley, D. (2008). Nursing assessment: Endocrine system. In D. Brown, H. Edwards, & E. eds (Eds.), Lewis's medical-surgical nursing : assessment and management of clinical problems, 2nd ed (pp. 1328-1347). Mosby. |
| 2008 | Konick-McMahon, J., & Foley, D. (2008). Nursing management: Endocrine problems. In D. Brown, H. Edwards, & E. eds (Eds.), Lewis's medical-surgical nursing : assessment and management of clinical problems, 2nd ed (pp. 1383-1417). Mosby. |
| 2007 | Foley, D. (2007). The elderly. In K. Curtis, C. Ramsden, & J. eds (Eds.), Emergency and Trauma Nursing (pp. 608-624). Australia: Mosby. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Foley, D., Sharrad, S., & Alderman, J. (2015). A Program of Integrated Problem Based Learning and Simulation. Poster session presented at the meeting of Simhealth 2015: Finding the Balance. Adelaide Convention Centre, South Australia. |
June 2016, Office for the Ageing, SA Health, $10,000
Simulated learning environment teaching undergraduate health professional students the principles of recognition and early assessment of a person subject to elder abuse.
April 2008, University of Adelaide Implementation Grant for Learning and Teaching Enhancement $10,000
Implementation of an electronic audience response system (EARS) to enhance student learning through direct formative and summative feedback
July, 2001, University of Adelaide, Matching IT funding $40, 000
To develop instructional videos for skills associated with advanced life support that is suitable for Internet streaming and CD use. In conjunction with Donnelly, F., Clark, R. and ABC television.
July, 2000, University of Adelaide, Matching IT funding $46, 000
To develop an Internet assisted website facilitating the education of students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Nursing Science (High Dependency Nursing) In conjunction with Field, J. & Clark, R.
Course Coordinator of:
- NURSING 1006 Microbiology and Infection Control
- NURSING 2006 Chronic Disease and Disability
- NURSING 2011 Health Assessment & Clinical Nursing IV
- NURSING 7209 Applied Nursing Practice II
Lectures in all year levels to undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of topics including immunity, pharmacology, health assessment, disability, human development, pathophysiology and pain assessment
Teaches skills to 1st and 2nd-year BN students
Student Evaluation of Learning and Teaching
Unsolicited comments from 2021 BN students
“Thank you for helping me to be the best nurse possible”
“I hope that when I graduate I am a compassionate and competent nurse,…Thank you for educating us on not only the clinical skills that it takes to be a nurse but the equally important emotional side of nursing.”
In student evaluation of learning and teaching (SELT) for semester 2, 2021 David was evaluated by students as an effective teacher with a mean score of 6.9/7 and a median of 7/7
SELT Semester 2, 2021 comments
“I've never heard of anyone complaining about David, which is quite impressive in a group of 250 students.”
“one of the best lecturers UOA has to offer in nursing”
“David has been an incredible support to all students and also is very knowledgeable and passionate about nursing”
“David is a great university lecturer as he is very helpful with answering questions and he cares about his students. He explains the content in lectures and tutorials very clearly.”
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | An investigation into the impact of critical incidents on newcomer nurses and their coping strategies | Master of Clinical Science | Master | Part Time | Miss Sally-Anne Bessell |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2023 | Co-Supervisor | Factors Influencing Intensive Care Nurses’ Adherence To ‘Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia’ Clinical Practice Guidelines in Saudi Arabia: A Mixed-Methods Study | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Nader Eqaab D Alotaibi |
| 2021 - 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Optimising Telemedicine for Critically Ill Rural Patients Requiring Retrieval to Tertiary Hospitals in South Australia | Master of Clinical Science | Master | Part Time | Mrs Melanie Fudge |
| 2021 - 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Effectiveness of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide on Regional Nurses’ Confidence | Master of Philosophy (Clinical Science) | Master | Part Time | Ms Nicole Ann Dawes |
| 2019 - 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Followership of Nurses in Saudi Arabia: A Mixed Methods Study | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Sulaiman Mohammed Alanazi |
| 2012 - 2018 | Co-Supervisor | Designing a Simulation Intervention to Reduce Stress among New Graduate Registered Nurses in the Intensive Care Units in Saudi Arabia: A Mixed Methods Design | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Ayidah Sanad Mubarak Alqarni |
| Date | Role | Board name | Institution name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 - ongoing | Board Member | Citizen Advocacy General Board | Citizen Advocacy South Australia | Australia |
| Date | Role | Committee | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 - ongoing | Member | SA Clinical Training Council Embedding Simulation Working Group | SA Health | Australia |
| 2015 - 2015 | Member | Learning and Teaching in AMNS | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2013 - 2014 | Member | Faculty of Health Sciences | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2012 - 2014 | Member | BN Accreditation | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2012 - 2015 | Member | Faculty of Health Sciences Clinical Skills Facility Managment Group | University of Adelaide | - |
| 2011 - 2012 | Member | Faculty of Health Science eLearning | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| 2011 - 2014 | Member | Bn Learning and Teaching | Uiversiyt of Adelaide | Australia |
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