Dr Michelle Freeling
Lecturer, Nursing
School of Nursing and Midwifery
College of Health
Michelle Freeling is a Lecturer in Nursing at UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences. She completed her nursing degree at Flinders University in 2013 and pursued Honours in Nursing in 2014. Michelle's clinical expertise spans perioperative nursing and community nursing, complemented by her PhD, a mixed methods study exploring nurse presenteeism in high acuity settings.
Michelle is passionate about teaching and research, particularly in making pharmacology and pathophysiology accessible and enjoyable for nursing students. Her research interests encompass nurse well-being, mental health, workforce continuity, feminist issues in nursing, and nursing students' experiences of workplace violence. At UniSA, she coordinates and teaches courses NURS5170 Perioperative Nursing and NURS5171 Decision-Making for Midwifery and Nursing Practice, among others.
Michelle is passionate about integrating gamification into healthcare education, and the design of educational escape rooms, seeking innovative ways to enhance learning experiences in nursing education.
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Pinero De Plaza, M. A., Archibald, M., Lawless, M., Ambagtsheer, R., McMillan, P., Mudd, A., . . . Kitson, A. (2024). A human-centered approach to measuring the impact of evidence-based online resources. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 310, 389-393. Scopus4 WoS3 Europe PMC2 |
| 2023 | Dafny, H. A., McCloud, C., Pearson, V., Brown, S., Phillips, C., Waheed, N., . . . Champion, S. (2023). Nursing students' experience of workplace violence in clinical practice: A qualitative systematic review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 32(17-18), 6136-6164. Scopus28 WoS28 Europe PMC22 |
| 2020 | Freeling, M., Rainbow, J. G., & Chamberlain, D. (2020). Painting a picture of nurse presenteeism: A multi-country integrative review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 109, 13 pages. Scopus63 WoS59 Europe PMC51 |
| 2017 | Freeling, M., Parker, S., & Breaden, K. (2017). Exploring experienced nurses' views, attitudes and expectations of graduate nurses in the operating theatre. Acorn, 30(1), 23-28. Scopus8 |
| 2015 | Freeling, M., & Parker, S. (2015). Exploring experienced nurses' attitudes, views and expectations of new graduate nurses: A critical review. Nurse Education Today, 35(2), e42-e49. Scopus54 WoS45 Europe PMC29 |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2024 | Grant, S., Freeling, M., Goldberg, J. I., & Rosa, W. E. (2024). Pain Management. In D. Brown (Ed.), Source details - Title: Lewis’s medical-surgical nursing: Assessment and management of clinical problems (6th ed., pp. 92-126). Australia: Elsevier Australia. |
| 2023 | Freeling, M., Grant, S., Goldberg, J. I., & Rosa, W. E. (2023). Chronic post-surgical pain. In Lewis S Medical Surgical Nursing 6th Australia and New Zealand Edition Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems (pp. 92-126). DOI |
Courses I teach
- NURS 5153 Research for Advancing Nursing, Midwifery and Health Care (2025)
- NURS 5170 Perioperative Nursing (2025)
- NURS 5171 Decision-Making for Midwifery and Nursing Practice (2025)
- NURS 5174 Implementing Teaching and Learning in Health Education (2025)
- NURS 2040 Assessment, Diagnostics and Pharmacotherapeutics (2024)
- NURS 3055 Evidence Based Nursing Practice (2024)
- NURS 5170 Perioperative Nursing (2024)
- NURS 5171 Decision-Making for Midwifery and Nursing Practice (2024)
