Rate My Professor Katie Sutton

Katie Sutton is a Lecturer in the Curtin School of Nursing within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She has served as a nursing educator in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine since 2012, teaching at undergraduate and master's levels. Sutton holds a BSc and serves as Undergraduate Course Coordinator, having coordinated units including GMED 2000 and NURS4001 Nursing and Midwifery Capstone. She delivered a workshop on Leadership in Nursing at the Curtin Mauritius campus.

Sutton's research centers on nursing education, student readiness for clinical placement, pharmacology integration, and clinical decision-making. In 2015, she presented "Integrated pharmacology in an undergraduate nursing curriculum: The nursing student's perception of their readiness for clinical placement" at the Teaching and Learning Forum. The presentation detailed: "Pharmacology is a key area of study in the undergraduate nursing curriculum. The delivery of pharmacology content across undergraduate nursing curricula historically takes one of two forms: either specific units in pharmacology or through an integrated or embedded approach, where pharmacology content is addressed across several course units. The integrated curricula delivery method is relatively new within undergraduate nursing courses. The aim of this research project is to determine the effectiveness of integrated pharmacology curriculum in meeting student's perceptions and expectations of the pharmacology knowledge required to support their readiness for clinical placement. The project will involve curriculum document analysis and content mapping to explore pharmacology content currently provided in the integrated model. This information will guide the development of a quantitative online survey for students to complete. The online survey will consist of a 5 point Likert rating scale to explore the student's perceptions of how effectively the pharmacology content provided meets their needs for clinical placement. Exploring this topic from the student's perspective will add to the existing body of knowledge in an Australian context, and identify ways to improve student's readiness for clinical placement through the effective delivery of pharmacology content within an integrated curricula model." She co-authored "A re-examination of the individual differences approach that predicts nursing students’ clinical decision making" in Journal of Nursing Management (2019) with Brody Heritage, Clare S. Rees, Rebecca Osseiran-Moisson, Diane Chamberlain, Lynette Cusack, Judith Anderson, Anna Fagence, Janie Brown, Victoria R. Terry, David Hemsworth, and Desley G. Hegney.