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Professor Deb Massey is a part-time academic at Edith Cowan University's School of Nursing and Midwifery, concurrently maintaining clinical practice as an ICU Registered Nurse. With nursing academic experience since 1999 across Australian and UK institutions, she previously served as Head of Nursing at Southern Cross University (2019-2022).
Her research centers on patient safety, teaching and learning methodologies, nursing workforce development, and mixed-method literature reviews. Current projects include a WA Nurses Memorial Trust-funded study on interprofessional education for maternal deterioration recognition (2024-2025).
Analysis of her 2023-2025 publications reveals persistent focus on early warning systems, clinical judgment, and critical care education, with methodological strengths in grounded theory and scoping reviews. Her work bridges clinical practice and academic innovation across cardiac, maternal, and oncology nursing contexts.
Award highlights include:
- 2022 Metro North Health Authority Best Paper
- 2022 Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Best Poster
- 2011 Griffith University 3MT Winner (dual category)
- Multiple Queensland Nursing Council Scholarships (2007-2009)
As editorial board member for Nurse Education Today and Australian Critical Care, she contributes to scholarly discourse while supervising doctoral candidates exploring primary health care workforce development and virtual simulation for clinical reasoning. Her dual academic-clinical role exemplifies translational research in critical care nursing.
