Sonja Dawson is a senior nursing lecturer with a demonstrated history of working in tertiary education. She is the current Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee and the Graduate Studies Convenor at Avondale. Sonja has research experience in Phenomenology and Ethnography, and her PhD thesis investigated the culture of care within an NGO working in LMICs, which resulted in the development of a professional practice model for non-disaster humanitarian nursing. She is a champion of service learning, high fidelity simulation and is currently a Chief Investigator on the HAPPEN Study, research related to hospital acquired pneumonia and oral care, funded by the Medical Research Future Fund (Australian Government). Other research projects have included the efficacy of teaching undergraduates in IV medication calculations, assimilation of Internationally Qualified Nurses to Australian Health Care and inter professional learning.
Dawson, S., Jackson, D., & Elliott, D. (in press). Understanding the motivation of nurses volunteering for non-disaster humanitarian service. Collegian: The Australian Journal of Nursing Practice, Scholarship and Research, 28(6), 645-651. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colegn.2021.06.003
Dawson, S., Jackson, D., & Elliott, D. (2019). Challenges and reflections from an international, humanitarian, short-term surgical mission on collecting ethnographic data in a remote environment. Nurse Researcher, 27(2), 21-25. doi:10.7748/nr.2019.e1627
Dawson, S., Elliott, D., & Jackson, D. (2017). Nurses’ contribution to short-term humanitarian care in low to middle income countries: An integrative review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 3950-3961. doi:10.1111/jocn.13816
Aggar, C., & Dawson, S. (2014). Evaluation of student nurses' perception of preparedness for oral medication administration in clinical practice: A collaborative study. Nurse Education Today, 34(6), 899-903. doi:10.1016/i.nedt.2014.01.015
Dawson, S., Jackson, D., & Elliott, D. (2018, July). Sailing through ethnographic data collection (on a hospital ship). Poster session presented at the International Nursing Research Congress, Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved from https://sigma.nursingrepository.org/handle/10755/16309
Frischknecht, S. A. (2012, July 30-August 3). The experience of Australian undergraduate BN student nurses undertaking a clinical placement in the Solomon Islands. Paper presented at the Sigma Theta Tau 23rd International Nursing Research Congress, Brisbane, Australia. Abstract retrieved from Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository: http://www.nursinglibrary.org/handle/10755/243487/
Dawson, S. (2022, June 7). Mercy ships from a nursing perspective [Webinar]. Australian College of Nursing. https://members.acn.edu.au/Public/cpd-centre/cpd-view?CPDID=204
Dawson, S. A. (2021). An ethnographic study of nursing on a surgery ship providing humanitarian care [Doctoral dissertation, University of Technology, Sydney]. Open Publications of UTS Scholars Digital Repository. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/150733
