Rate My Professor Darren Conlon

Darren Conlon serves as a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Notre Dame Australia. His academic background encompasses a Bachelor of Nursing (BN), Bachelor of Civil Law (Honours) (BCL(Hons.)), Master of Laws (LLM), Graduate Certificate in University Teaching (GCUT), and Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP). He has also earned a Doctor of Philosophy. As a registered nurse, legal practitioner, and public notary, Conlon brings an interdisciplinary expertise to his teaching and research, bridging nursing practice with legal and ethical considerations in healthcare.

Conlon's research specializations center on decision-making processes in mental health nursing, particularly nurses' understanding of their duty of confidentiality to patients, mental health risk assessments conducted by nurses in mental health settings, and confidentiality versus risk-actuated public interest disclosure. His work employs qualitative methods and frameworks such as Cognitive Continuum Theory to examine these areas. Key publications include "Nurses' understanding of their duty of confidentiality to patients in mental health care: A qualitative exploratory study" (2024), "Mental Health Risk Assessments of Patients, by Nurses Working in Mental Health Settings: A Qualitative Study Using Cognitive Continuum Theory" (2024), "A qualitative investigation of nurses’ knowledge and practice gaps regarding confidentiality and risk-actuated public interest disclosure-related decision-making" (2024), "Cognitive Continuum Theory: Can it contribute to the examination of confidentiality and risk‐actuated disclosure decisions of nurses practising in mental health?" (2022), and "Disclosure of confidential information by mental health nurses, of patients they assess to be a risk of harm to self or others: An integrative review" (2019). His Doctor of Philosophy thesis, titled "A qualitative exploration of mental health nurses' decision-making processes regarding confidentiality and disclosure of patient information," was completed in 2024. Previously affiliated with the Sydney Nursing School at the University of Sydney, Conlon continues to contribute to nursing education and scholarship at Notre Dame Australia.