About
Biography
Andrea Thawley has over 29 years of continued clinical nursing practice in Australia and the United Kingdom, specialising in Emergency and Critical care nursing for the last 28 years. She is currently an Associate Lecturer in Nursing at Fraser Coast Campus and is committed to providing the best educational opportunities for students and collegial support for colleagues.
Prior to commencing work with UniSC, she worked in the Emergency Department for 17 years at The Tweed Hospital, Northern NSW Local Health District, holding the positions as the Emergency Clinical Nurse Consultant and Clinical Nursing Unit Manager during her employment. As a Clinical Nurse Consultant, she developed, reviewed, and published multiple local emergency and operating department procedures/ guidelines with a major focus on triage models of care, education and mental health.
Andrea presented her research findings, Rapid Assessment of Triage Processes (RAPIT) at the 17th International Conference for Emergency Nurses in 2019 and was awarded Best Novice Research. She published the 'educational needs of triage nurses' component in 2020.
Research areas
Triage Models of Care
FastrackED Pandemic Education Program for non- Emergency trained nurses
Teaching areas
Child Youth and Family
Clinical Connections
Preparation for Practice 2 and 4
Practice Foundations
Professional memberships
College of Emergency Nursing Australasia
Australian College of Nursing