Dr Lindy King
Academic Status and Web Supervisor
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Lindy was awarded a PhD at Kings College London and has authored 50 peer-reviewed journal publications and reports. Currently, Lindy is the lead investigator on clinical and practice-related funded research projects that investigate:
- Consumer and healthcare professional recognition and response to deteriorating patients;
- Older peoples’ self-management of chronic conditions at home after discharge.
Lindy’s expertise in educational leadership has led to the following achievements
- Recipient of five (5) National and University Excellence in Teaching awards
- Successful research supervision of fifty-five (55) research students’ theses - PhD (6), Masters (19) and Honours (30);
- Successful research supervision of two (2) MSc / clinical research nurses in a Flinders University/ Industry partnership to undertake Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) based research projects;
- Facilitation of thirty-three (33) undergraduate mentoring project students to achieve research-based publications in peer reviewed, nursing and multi-disciplinary journals
- Facilitation of twenty-three (23) undergraduate mentoring project students to achieve research-based international /national conference presentations.
Lindy's commitment to leadership in patient safety and quality research and education has led to:
- 2018 SA Nursing & Midwifery Excellence Award winner – ‘Excellence in Innovation in Clinical Research’
- Executive committee (invited researcher) of SA Health Consumer-initiated Escalation of Care statewide project
- Member of the International Society of Rapid Response System
- Associate Editor / Reviewer - seven international prestigious patient safety and quality, nursing and education journals.
PhD (King's College London)
Bachelor of Nusing (Education) SACAE (Sturt)
Diploma of Applied Science (Nursing) SACAE (Sturt)
RN (Royal Adelaide Hospital)
2018 SA Government Nursing & Midwifery Excellence Award - Winner
Lindy King – ‘Excellence in Innovation in Clinical Research’
2017 SA Health Southern Adelaide Local Health Network/Flinders University Competitive Research Grant
King, Clark, Peacock, Grantham, Young, Thornton, Michael Kidd - Health professionals' perspectives on developing the emboldment of consumers in the detection of patient deterioration
2017 SA Health Quality & Safety /Flinders University Competitive Research Grant
King, Clark, Peacock, Grantham, Young, Thornton, Michael Kidd - "You're Worried' We're Listening" partnering with consumers in the detection of patient deterioration
2016 SA Health Northern Adelaide Local Health Network/Flinders University Research Grant
King, Harrington - Older people and their family members’ decision-making in the management of chronic health conditions at home following recent discharge
2014 Flinders University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Science Executive Dean's Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant
King, Gillham - Facilitating collaborative publication by clinicians: A novel approach to postgraduate education
2014 Flinders University Category 1 Near Miss Research Grant
King, Clark, Peacock, Grantham, Young, Ullah, Michael Kidd - Development of a survey tool and multi-media educational materials for consumers involved in recognising and reporting patient deterioration
2013 Flinders University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences Competitive Research Grant
King, David Gillham - What factors hinder/facilitate student dissemination of research findings through collaborative student-staff publications.
2012 Flinders University Faculty of Health Science Executive Dean's Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant
King, Pront, Grantham, Rosenthal - The influence of interprofessional education on nursing, paramedic and medical students care of the deteriorating patient
2007 Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
King, Neill, Taylor - academic and clinical mentoring program encouraging passion for clinical research, further study and publication among undergraduate nursing students
Lead researcher on three funded research projects
PhD research supervision
2018-2020 President, Psi Eta chapter (SA chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (Sigma), a global nursing leadership network)
PhD student supervision on topics related to:
1) Patient safety - care of the deteriorating patient;
2) Positive and healthy ageing - Older people's self management of chronic health conditions at home after discharge from hospital
Australian Postgraduate Award - JAN 2004
Australian Postgraduate Award - JAN 2009
Vice-Chancellors Award for Thesis Excellence Nominee - OCT 2014
Professional / industry engagement
SA Health Safety & Quality Executive committee - SA Health Consumer Initiated Escalation of Care policy development
Research partner with SA Health Safey and Quality Unit
Research partner with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network
Research partner with Southern Adelaide Local Health Network
Professional organisations
President Psi chapter, STTI (Sigma)
Journal reviewer:
- British Medical Journal - Quality and Safety
- Emergency Medicine Australasia
- Health Expectations
- International Journal of Nursing Studies
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
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