Rate My Professor Lynda Hughes

Dr. Lynda Hughes serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery within Griffith Health at Griffith University, where she holds the position of Program Director for the Bachelor of Nursing program. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. A registered nurse with a clinical background in intensive care nursing, her comprehensive academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Nursing (BN), Graduate Diploma in Orthopaedic Nursing (GDOrthNurs), Graduate Diploma in Critical Care Nursing (GDCCNurs), Master of Nursing (MN), Master of Education (MEd), and PhD.

Hughes has established a strong educational research profile, with specializations in nursing education including remediation strategies in clinical practice for undergraduate nursing students, assessment policies for clinical placements, core competencies for registered nurse preceptors, and nurses' assessment of health literacy in hospital settings. Key publications encompass "Remediation in clinical practice for student nurses – A scoping review" (Nurse Education Today, 2024), "Exploring assessment policies for clinical practice: A scoping review of the literature" (Collegian, 2023), "Core competencies for Registered Nurse preceptors: A mapping review of quantitative studies" (Nursing Open, 2024), "Nurses’ assessment of health literacy requirements for hospitalised patients" (Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 2024), "Understanding nursing assessment of health literacy in a hospital context: A qualitative study" (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2023), and "What Helps, What Hinders? Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Evaluation of a Patient Safety Escape Room" (SAGE Open Nursing, 2021). She has also co-authored chapters in textbooks such as Contexts of Nursing on preparing for and making meaning of clinical placements (7th Edition). Her collaborative research extends to consumer engagement in teaching, video-assisted education for health professional students, and burnout in advanced practice cancer nurses. These works provide evidence-based insights that influence nursing pedagogy, student support during clinical placements, and professional competence development in the field.