Rate My Professor Martha Mansah

Dr. Martha Mansah is a registered nurse, researcher, and lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University, with a strong and sustained commitment to nursing education and research. She holds a PhD focused on patient safety, errors, and adverse events, a Bachelor of Nursing (Honours), a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, and is a registered nurse (RN). Her clinical expertise spans aged care emphasizing gerontology, emergency nursing, medical nursing, and surgical nursing. Previously recognized as the Griffith Graduate Emergency Nursing Convenor, she now lectures in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, affiliated with the Menzies Health Institute Queensland. Dr. Mansah teaches master's level courses in Gerontology, Emergency Nursing, and Acute Nursing, alongside undergraduate subjects including Research in Nursing and Nursing Management. She has curated reading lists for courses such as 3803NRS and contributed to interprofessional education initiatives.

Dr. Mansah's academic interests encompass gerontology in residential aged care facilities and acute settings, patient safety, emergency nursing and critical care, advance care planning, clinical errors and adverse events, and safe transitions of care across healthcare settings. Her publications demonstrate impact in these areas, with over 228 citations documented on ResearchGate. Key works include 'Tailoring Dementia Care Mapping and Reflective Practice to empower Assistants in Nursing to provide quality care for residents with dementia' (2014, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing); 'Older folks in hospitals: the contributing factors and impact of clinical incidents' (2014, Journal of Patient Safety); 'The use of interprofessional learning and simulation in undergraduate nursing education' (2018); 'A mixed methods study of nursing academics' experience of online teaching during COVID-19' (2022); 'A systematic review of online team based learning approaches in health professional education' (2024, Nurse Education Today); 'Understanding the impact of transition into residential aged care for families from non-native speaking background: An integrative review' (2025); and 'Clinical Trials in Central Venous Access Devices: A bibliometric analysis' (2025, Journal of Advanced Nursing). For her teaching, she received an Achievement for Teaching Excellence award from the Griffith University School of Nursing in Semester 2, 2017.