Rate My Professor Letitia Del Fabbro

Letitia Del Fabbro is a lecturer and nurse educator in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University, located on the Gold Coast Campus. She possesses qualifications including a Master of Public Health (MPH), Bachelor of Nursing (BN), Bachelor of Health Science with Honours (BHlthSc Hons), and Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Studies (GradDipA). A registered nurse (RN), Del Fabbro has extensive career experience spanning clinical practice, health administration, and academia. She spent 13 years in senior roles at Queensland Health, including as Executive Director, Population Health Queensland. At Griffith University, she previously served as International Programmes Convenor and Director for Singapore and Japan nursing programs from 2008 to 2011. Her entry into nursing education followed her final clinical placement at Gold Coast Hospital. Del Fabbro was formerly President of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) Queensland branch and has acted as an examiner for the Master of Human Services at Griffith University.

Del Fabbro's research portfolio centers on nursing education, with emphases on the acculturation, language, and learning experiences of international nursing students; support for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) students during clinical placements; cultural safety curricula; work-integrated learning amid challenges like COVID-19; and reconceptualizing nursing curricula for planetary health. Notable publications include 'Reconceptualizing nursing curricula for planetary health: A web-based desktop audit' (2024, Nurse Education Today), 'Translating Person-Centered Care Policy Into Practice: A Pre-Post Study of a Work-Based Learning Intervention for Nurses' (2024, Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing), 'The assessment of undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing students in the Collaborative Clusters Education Model: A qualitative descriptive design' (2023, Nurse Education in Practice), 'Evolving beyond antiracism: Reflections on the experience of developing a cultural safety curriculum in a tertiary education setting' (2022, Nursing Inquiry), 'Feasibility of supporting newly qualified nurses: Nominal group technique of the perspectives of nursing stakeholders' (2022, Collegian), 'Supporting culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) undergraduate nursing students undertaking clinical placements in Australia: An exploratory qualitative study' (2021, Nurse Education Today), and 'The acculturation, language and learning experiences of international nursing students: A qualitative study' (2017, Nurse Education Today). Her scholarship has accumulated over 600 citations. She contributes to teaching in the Bachelor of Nursing program and employs participatory action research methodologies to enhance faculty learning and student outcomes in diverse educational contexts.