Rate My Professor Kerry Hood

Kerry Hood is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Medicine at Monash Health, within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, where she previously worked as a Lecturer and Director of Professional Development Programs in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Her academic background includes qualifications as a Registered Nurse (RN), Bachelor of Nursing (BN), and Master of Nursing (MN). Hood has contributed to nursing education through involvement in programs such as the Master of Nursing Practice and has focused on improving pedagogical approaches in clinical training. Her career at Monash spans roles emphasizing professional development and interprofessional education for healthcare students.

Hood's research specializations center on nursing education, including the flipped classroom approach, student anxiety and self-efficacy, professional identity of nursing educators, informal interprofessional workplace learning, graduate nurse programs in aged care, clinical skills training, and emergency nursing practices. Key publications include 'Nursing educators’ professional identity: challenges and consequences when adopting the flipped approach' (2023, Teaching and Learning in Nursing), 'Anxiety, flipped approach and self-efficacy: Exploring nursing student outcomes' (2020, Nurse Education Today), 'Understanding students' and clinicians' experiences of informal interprofessional workplace learning: An Australian qualitative study' (2018, BMJ Open), 'The dynamic role of the graduate nurse in aged care: An Australian experience of delivering an aged care graduate nurse program' (2017, Collegian), 'Graduate nurses' knowledge of the functions and limitations of pulse oximetry: A pilot study' (2015, Journal of Clinical Nursing), 'Prior experience of interprofessional learning enhances undergraduate nursing and healthcare students' professional identity and attitudes to teamwork' (2013, Nurse Education Today), and 'Emergency and palliative care nurses’ levels of anxiety about death and coping with death: A questionnaire survey' (2013, Nurse Education in Practice). She co-authored 'Letters' in the Australian Journal of General Practice (2024). In 2016, Hood received a research grant award from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Learning and Teaching Research Grant Scheme for projects on flexible pedagogies and active learning strategies in nursing education.