Lecturer in Nursing
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Anne Mette Adams is an intensive care nurse, teacher and researcher with clinical work experience from Danish, Norwegian and Australian healthcare settings. She joined Flinders University in 2016, determined to improve nursing care and expand nursing knowledge. Her teaching interests include critical care nursing, fundamental care, clinical reasoning, clinical skills development, pathophysiology and pharmacology. She strives to make her students feel empowered and safe to speak up, and believes that teaching must be student-focused, meaningful and engaging. Anne Mette's research interests include patient and family-centred critical care nursing, in particular care for the agitated patient and staff well-being. She has experience with using Delphi, mixed methods and qualitative research methods. Her PhD focuses on developing clinical practice guidelines for the non-pharmacological management of patient agitation in the intensive care unit.
PhD Candidate
Honours (nursing) (Flinders University)
Flinders Foundation of University Teaching Certificate (Flinders University)
Master of Nursing (Flinders University)
GradDip in Critical Care (Flinders University)
Bachelor of Nursing (University College Lillebaelt, Denmark - 2003)
2020: Erik Elgaard Sørensen Scholarship
2020: ACCCN Research Seeding Grant
2020: Australian Government RTP Scholarship
2018: First Class Honours
2018: ACCCN SA Members Professional Fund Grant
2017: School of Nursing and Midwifery Honours Scholarship
Research, topic coordination, teaching
College of Nursing and Health Sciences Membership
- HDR Student Committee (2021 - ongoing)
- Caring Futures Institute (2019- ongoing)
- Student Progress Committee (2019)
- Honours Programs Subcommittee (2017-2018)
- Postgraduate Subcommittee (2016-2019)
- Exam board (2016-2019)
Professional and Community Membership
- Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (SA/NT Board Vice President since 2020)
- Australian College of Nurses (ACN)
- The International Learning Collaborative (ILC)
Other
Reviewer of the Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN)
Reviewer of Journal of Nursing Management