Mrs Anne Mette Adams

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.