Frances Lin

Professor

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

+61 8 74219446

frances.lin@flinders.edu.au

Bedford Park (N219)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Professor Frances Lin is an established acute and critical care researcher and educator. Her research expertise is in implementation science, health services research, and designing complex interventions to improve patient safety and quality of care in acute and critical care settings. Her current program of research focuses on patient care and bed flow in adult intensive care units, including evidence based practice in patient recovery, delayed admission, delayed discharge, and after hours discharge. Collaborating with others and helping health services/organisations to build clinical research capacity are key features of Frances Lin’s work.

Professor Lin has held teaching and learning leadership roles including the Nursing Discipline Lead (UniSC), and Program Director/coordinator at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels (Griffith University). Her teaching and learning expertise includes: strategic leadership; blended learning; simulation; program accreditation; program review; program coordination; curriculum design, development, implementation, and evaluation; consensus moderation; and quality improvement.

Qualifications

RN, PhD, FACCCN, SFHEA;

Executive ready program, Australian School of Applied Management and Women in Leadership Australia;

WATTLE women in leadership program

Honours, awards and grants

Associate Editor, Intensive and Critical Care Nursing journal (Elsevier)

Fellow of Australian College of Critical Care Nurses

Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Chair Professor, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China, 2017 – Present

Honorary Professor, School of Nursing, China Medical University, China, 2019 - Present

Visiting Professor, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou Province, China, 2017 – Present

Griffith Health Dean’s award on outstanding service in “international”, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia in 2017

“Excellent Alumni” Award by Peking University Health Centre, Beijing, China in 2014

Dean’s Commendations for excellence in teaching in recognition of contribution to enhance the quality of student learning. Awarded by Dean (Teaching and Learning) Health Group, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. 2009

Research Awards

The Gavin Leslie best nursing research paper award 2020, Australian College of Critical Care Nurses, and the Australian Critical Care. This national award recognises excellence in nursing research by a member of the College.
Chen, Y., Marshall, A. P., & Lin, F. (2019). Lessons learnt from the implementation of same-day discharge after percutaneous coronary intervention. Australian Critical Care, 32(6), 458-464. doi:10.1016/j.aucc.2018.11.066.

Best nursing research paper, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand conference 2019
Chen, Y. Y., Lin, F., & Marshall, A. Patient and family experiences of same day discharge following percutaneous coronary intervention. The 67th Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand conference, 08-10 August 2019, Adelaide, Australia. Oral presentation, Cardiovascular Nursing Prize

Best Nursing Review paper, the 39^th Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive Care
Sosnowski, K., Lin, F., Mitchell, M. L., & White, H. (2015). Early rehabilitation in the intensive care unit: An integrative literature review. Paper presented at the 39^th Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive Care, 9-11 October, Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities

Research

Teaching

HDR supervision (currently recruiting students to join her program of health services research)

Teaching interests

Research methods

Knowledge translation

Evidence based practice

Supervisory interests

Critical care nursing

Evidence based clinical practice

Health service implementation