Rate My Professor Penny Sweeting

Professor Penny Sweeting is Professor of Nursing in the School of Health Sciences and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. Her office is located at Level 5, 75 Talavera Road, Macquarie Park, Sydney, NSW 2109. She serves as Unit Convenor for the unit MHHX1006 – Health, Society and Culture, which explores the social, cultural, and historical factors influencing health in Australia. Professor Sweeting is featured in university events including the Macquarie Future of Health Week and Postgraduate Health Information Evenings, contributing to discussions on nursing and health sciences opportunities.

Sweeting holds a PhD and is pursuing a Master of Business Administration at the University of Sydney Business School. Prior to her current role, she was affiliated with Charles Darwin University in the School of Health. Her career includes extensive clinical nursing experience, including in emergency departments, building on her Certificate IV in Nursing (Endorsed Enrolled Nurse) from TAFE NSW. Her research specializations center on patient safety, perioperative nursing, intraoperative competence, thermometry methods, and factors contributing to inpatient suicides in Australian hospitals. Key publications include 'Intraoperative competence, more than the sum of its parts: a scoping review' (2026, Journal of Perioperative Practice, with Jutharat Attawet, Elaine Correia Moll, and Kim M. Caudwell); 'A review of modifiable healthcare factors contributing to inpatient suicide: An analysis of coroners’ reports using the Healthcare Human Factors Analysis and Classification System' (2024); 'A comparison of inpatient suicides in Australian psychiatric and non-psychiatric hospital wards' (2023, Psychiatry Research, 327, 115363, with Mary P. Finlayson and Donna L. Hartz); 'Peripheral thermometry: Agreement between non-touch infrared versus traditional modes in an adult population' (2022, Journal of Advanced Nursing); and 'Patient safety during joint replacement surgery: experiences of operating room nurses' (2021). She acts as a key contact for nursing academic position enquiries at Macquarie University.