Rate My Professor May El Haddad

Dr May El Haddad is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing within the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She earned her PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2016, focusing on practice and education sector perspectives regarding graduate registered nurse practice readiness in Australia. She also holds an MNur (Hons) from the University of Queensland and is recognized as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). With more than 40 years of professional experience spanning clinical practice, management, education, and research, Dr El Haddad previously served as a Nurse Educator at the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service for a decade. In that role, she led initiatives in preceptorship development, clinical placements, and graduate nurse transition programs, expanding placement capacity and supporting early-career nurses. As a Nurse Researcher, she collaborated with Monash University on projects aimed at reducing administrative burdens for nurse and midwife unit managers while enhancing clinical leadership and workforce sustainability.

Dr El Haddad co-leads the First-Year Experience Working Group at the University of the Sunshine Coast, promoting student engagement, success, and retention. Her research specializations encompass health professional education and workforce development, first-year experience and student success, clinical leadership and workforce sustainability, interprofessional education, consensus moderation and feedback literacy, graduate nurse readiness and transition to practice, innovative clinical placement models, and generative AI applications in higher education and healthcare. Notable publications include 'Nurse unit managers’ work and impacts on clinical leadership: A cross-sectional study' (Collegian, 2022), 'Perceptions of the impact of introducing administrative support for nurse unit managers: A qualitative evaluation' (Journal of Nursing Management, 2019), 'Graduate nurse practice readiness: A conceptual understanding of an age old debate' (Collegian, 2017), 'Navigating challenges and opportunities: Nursing student’s views on generative AI in higher education' (Nurse Education in Practice, 2024), and 'Nursing in the United Arab Emirates: an historical background' (International Nursing Review, 2006). She has contributed to funded projects such as the Digital health workforce readiness grant (2023-2024) and holds memberships in the Australian College of Nursing, HERDSA, and ANZAHPE.