Rate My Professor Eillish Satchell

Eillish Satchell is a lecturer in the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland and a practising registered nurse with extensive clinical experience in emergency, anaesthetic, and high dependency care settings. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland, where her research explores the experiences of whānau and bystanders in Aotearoa New Zealand when a death occurs out of hospital and ambulance services respond. Her work focuses on emergency ambulance care of families during death and dying, palliative care and end-of-life research, and indigenous research methods, with particular attention to Māori whānau experiences.

Satchell holds a Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) and is affiliated with the Te Ārai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group. She has contributed to publications including studies on family experiences of out-of-hospital deaths where ambulance services respond and methodological reviews of paramedicine research with family and bystanders. Her research has been featured in university news on supporting Māori in out-of-hospital deaths, and she has served as course director for NURSING 104 - Applied Science for Nurses.