John Smithson is a lecturer in Nursing at James Cook University with 10 years academic experience teaching pharmacy and nursing undergraduate and postgraduate students.  He currently coordinates the Nurse Practitioner Course.  He is an accredited pharmacist and registered nurse with extensive experience in both the public remote and regional hospitals and private community and consultant pharmacy sectors.  His professional academic interests include exploring institutional systems and processes to improve teaching and learning quality, using novel teaching methods to improve job readiness of undergraduate students, improving prescribing quality and reliance on evidence-based practice and evaluation and predictors of long term impact of foreign aid programs to countries around the pacific-rim.  John enjoys competitive sailing, especially in stormy weather as he thinks it is good job training.

Teaching

• BM1022: Physiological Systems and Processes 2 (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• NS5902: Extended Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning 2 (Level 5; TSV)
• NS5903: Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practice 1 (Level 5; TSV)
• NS5906: Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practice 2 (Level 5; TSV)
• NS5921: Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioners 1 (Level 5; TSV)
• NS5922: Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioners 2 (Level 5; TSV)
• PP2131: Human Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 1 (Level 2; CNS & TSV)
• PP2231: Human Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 2 (Level 2; CNS & TSV)

Interests

Research

• Effect of simulation on student learning
• Student feedback

Experience

• 2017 - Academic Lead: Learning and Teaching (Nursing & Midwifery), James Cook University (Townsville, Australia)

Research Disciplines

• Curriculum and Pedagogy (1302)
• Nursing (1110)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Health and Support Services (9202)
• Curriculum (9303)
• Health (9299)

Awards

• 2011 - ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

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Journal Articles

• Birks M, Davis J, Smithson J and Cant R (2016) Registered nurse scope of practice in Australia: an integrative review of the literature. Contemporary Nurse, 52 (5). pp. 522-543
• Birks M, Smithson J, Wickett D and Holmes D (2015) Mapping nursing pathways: a diverse modified Delphi approach. SAGE Open, 5 (3). pp. 1-12
• Smithson J, Bellingan M, Glass B and Mills J (2015) Standardized patients in pharmacy education: an integrative literature review. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 7 (6). pp. 851-863
• Smithson J, Birks M, Harrison G, Nair C and Hitchins M (2015) Benchmarking for the effective use of student evaluation data. Quality Assurance in Education, 23 (1). pp. 20-29
• Smithson J (2009) Drug induced muscle disorders. Australian Pharmacist, 28 (12). pp. 1056-1062
• Agatonovic-Kustrin S, Glass B, Mangan M and Smithson J (2008) Analysing the crystal purity of mebendazole raw material and its stability in a suspension formulation. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 361 (1-2). pp. 245-250
• Heslop I and Smithson J (2008) Skin cancer: surgical and medical management. Hospital Pharmacist, 15 (2). pp. 47-52
• Smithson J and Heslop I (2008) Skin cancer: identification and primary prevention. Hospital Pharmacist, 15 (2). pp. 39-45

Conference Papers

• Birks M, Buchan J, Smithson J and Norris P (2014) Reality at the COAL FACE. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. In: ascilite 2014: 31st Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education: Rhetoric and Reality: critical perspectives on educational technology, 23-26 November 2014, Dunedin, New Zealand

Other research outputs

• Buchan J, Wicking K, Smithson J and Birks M (2015) At the COAL FACE: a guide to active learning in multi-campus, multi-modal and distributed learning environments. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
• Smithson J, Buchan J, Birks M, Wicking K, McDonald H and Riddle M (2014) Coal face: preparing academics to teach in multi-campus and multi-mode courses to build communities of active learners who are flexible adaptive connected & engaged. Abstracts from the 37th HERDSA Annual Conference. In: HERSDA 2014: 37th Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Annual Conference, 7-10 July 2014, Hong Kong
• Smithson J and Sealey R (2012) Authentic assessment for active learning in simulation: a multidisciplinary reflection. Abstracts from 15th Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions. 9-13 March 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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