Rate My Professor Michelle Freeling

Dr. Michelle Freeling serves as a Lecturer in Nursing within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Adelaide University's College of Health. She completed her nursing degree at Flinders University in 2013, followed by an Honours degree in Nursing in 2014. She holds a PhD based on a mixed methods study exploring nurse presenteeism in high acuity settings. Her clinical expertise spans perioperative nursing and community nursing. In her role, associated with UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences prior to institutional integration, she coordinates and teaches courses including NURS5170 Perioperative Nursing and NURS5171 Decision-Making for Midwifery and Nursing Practice.

Dr. Freeling's research specializations and academic interests include nurse well-being, mental health, workforce continuity, feminist issues in nursing, nursing students' experiences of workplace violence, pharmacology and pathophysiology education for nursing students, gamification in healthcare education, and the design of educational escape rooms. Key publications feature 'Painting a picture of nurse presenteeism: A multi-country integrative review' (International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2020, with Rainbow and Chamberlain), 'Exploring experienced nurses' attitudes, views and expectations of new graduate nurses: A critical review' (Nurse Education Today, 2015, with Parker), 'Exploring experienced nurses' views, attitudes and expectations of graduate nurses in the operating theatre' (Acorn, 2017, with Parker and Breaden), and 'Nursing students' experience of workplace violence in clinical practice: A qualitative systematic review' (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2023, co-authored). She has also contributed chapters on pain management (2024) and chronic post-surgical pain (2023) to Lewis’s Medical-Surgical Nursing (6th Australian edition).