Numbers and Nursing - Jenny Lansdown

Jenny completed her Master of Health Practice with Ara Institute of Canterbury in 2023, just after her move to Tauranga, and a new job with the Toi Ohomai Bachelor of Nursing team. Her research used large datasets of student nurses’ clinical experiences over a five and a half year time frame to consider:

• whether the Covid -19 pandemic, which affected nurses and nursing education from 2020 to 2022, had an impact on student nurses’ perceptions of their clinical experience during this time, and
• to see which clinical area the students regarded most highly.

The outcomes from her work have been published in two journal articles:

Lansdown, J. (2023). Taking it all in their stride: nursing students’ clinical placement experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scope: Health and Wellbeing, 8, 72-80. Journal Article.   

Lansdown, J., Milligan, K., Marshall, H., & Hamlin, M. (2024). An evaluation of Bachelor of Nursing students' perceptions of clinical placement experiences. Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 40 (1).

Jenny’s current research interests include evaluating how to assess competence in the clinical placement in the Bachelor of Nursing degree with the introduction of Nursing Council New Zealand’s new standards of competence.