Rate My Professor Lynette Bowen

Dr Lynette Bowen is a registered nurse and Honorary Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, based at the Port Macquarie campus. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle completed in 2015, a Master of Nursing (Professional Studies) from the University of Technology Sydney, a Bachelor of Education (Nursing) from the University of New England, a Diploma of Teaching (Nursing) from Newcastle College of Advanced Education, and a General Nursing Certificate from Royal North Shore Hospital. With more than 30 years of experience in clinical and university teaching, Dr Bowen delivers undergraduate courses using face-to-face, blended, and online modalities, contributes to postgraduate infection control courses, and engages in course design and development focused on infection prevention. Before joining academia, she worked as Nurse Educator at Port Macquarie Base Hospital and as Clinical Nurse Consultant in infection prevention and control with the North Coast Area Health Service, building a robust foundation in clinical education.

Dr Bowen's research utilizes qualitative and mixed methods approaches through collaborative clinical partnerships, specializing in infection prevention and control, clinical education, mentoring undergraduate nursing students in rural settings, surgical conscience, asepsis, and professional e-portfolios for work-integrated learning. Notable publications include the journal articles 'What does surgical conscience mean to perioperative nurses: An interpretive description' (2022), 'Registered nurses’ experience of mentoring undergraduate nursing students in a rural context: a qualitative descriptive study' (2019), 'Pandemics: A COVID-19 perspective' (2020), 'Nurses and undergraduate student nurses' experiences in collaborative clinical placement programs in acute hospitals: An integrative literature review' (2020), and 'Enhancing nursing students' understanding of threshold concepts through the use of digital stories and a virtual community called "Wiimali"' (2015). She has contributed chapters such as 'Asepsis and infection prevention and control' (2022, 2017) and 'Hygiene' (2022) to nursing textbooks. Awards include the 2017 School Collaboration and Engagement Excellence Award from the School of Nursing and Midwifery, 2016 Certificate of Recognition for World Teachers Day from the Australian College of Educators, and 2009 Faculty Teaching and Learning Excellence Award from the Faculty of Health at the University of Newcastle. As a member of the Centre for Health Professional Education, she currently co-supervises a Master's thesis on barriers to advance care planning for COPD patients in regional settings.