Rate My Professor Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson serves as a Lecturer in Nursing and the Work Integrated Learning Academic Coordinator (WILAC) for Nursing in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Nursing and a Master of Clinical Nursing specializing in Critical Care Nursing from the University of Tasmania and is currently a PhD candidate. With more than 12 years of experience as an Intensive Care Nurse, including her ongoing clinical role as a Registered Nurse in a cardio-thoracic intensive care unit on the Gold Coast, Wilson integrates substantial practical knowledge into her teaching and research. She has extensive experience leading teaching teams for undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programs, developing curricula, and implementing innovative mobile technologies to bolster work-integrated learning (WIL) models.

Wilson's academic interests center on innovations in work-integrated learning, nursing workforce development, novel strategies in nursing education, and the integration of digital mobile technologies to support nursing students in WIL environments. As project lead for mPreceptor—an experiential learning mobile application developed in collaboration with Practera—she has designed a structured four-week program featuring bite-sized modules, orientation activities, clinical communication tools like ISBAR, and resources that align with students' scope of practice and facilitate interaction with clinical facilitators. Her scholarly contributions include the 2022 publication "The use of mobile technology to support work integrated learning in undergraduate nursing programs: An integrative review" in Nurse Education Today (co-authored with Aggar, Massey, and Walker); a chapter in the 2023 book Case Studies for Health, Research and Practice in Australia and New Zealand (with Whiteing et al.); and co-authorship on the 2026 paper "Ensuring Quality, not just Quantity, in Work-Integrated Learning" in the Southern Cross University Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Paper Series (with Buchan et al.). Additionally, she has presented findings from her PhD research at the 2023 ANZAPHE Conference and contributed to other works such as "Partnerships to prepare undergraduate nursing students to care for older people" (2025) and "The aged care classroom" (2025). Wilson's efforts contribute to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and enhance the efficacy of nursing education through technological advancements.