Nursing education, ethics and gaming – juggling research interests - Roseanne Sadd

As well as teaching on our Bachelor of Nursing programme, Roseanne is an enthusiastic researcher, currently working on her second Master’s: her first was in Applied Management (Health); she is now studying for her Masters in Bioethics and Health Law through Otago University (including clinical ethics). Numerous research projects with internal and external colleagues have included qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and cross-disciplinary research, with Roseanne not only teaching herself statistical analysis, but then extending her expertise to assist team members with their own project data.

Current research interests cover a range of nursing and healthcare related topics reflecting Roseanne’s interest and expertise in nursing education and simulation, bioethics and health law and emerging digital technologies and informatics. Roseanne enjoys projects which have potential to advance teaching practices through technology, such as the efficacy of game-based learning and lab simulations as teaching and learning strategies. She is also interested in students’ clinical decision making in preparation for the workplace, and one current inquiry is as part of a research team looking at Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) assessments.   

Roseanne contributes to the research environment, reviewing conference and publication abstracts locally and internationally. She is also a current member of the Toi Ohomai Research and Human Ethics Committee, reviewing and approving staff and postgraduate student research proposals.

Recent publications:

Sadd, R., Collins, E., & Honey, M. (2024). Supporting digital health integration in a national curriculum: The New Zealand experience. In G. Strudwick, N.R. Hardiker, G. Rees, R. Cook, & Y. Ji Lee.(Eds.), Innovation in Applied Nursing Informatics (pp.488-493). Online: IOS Press. 

Sadd, R. (2023). Exploring the role of virtual simulation gaming in reducing physical examination anxiety for undergraduate nurses. In J. L Savage, J. Hoffman & M. Shannon. (Eds.), Proceedings: ITP Research Symposium 2022, 30 November – 2 December (pp.7-19). Auckland, New Zealand: ePress, Unitec | Te Pūkenga. 

Sadd, R., & Hills, J. (2023). Taming a wicked problem through virtual pre-simulation gaming. Scope (Learning & Teaching), 12, 17-25.     

Sadd, R. (2023). Ethical Considerations of Replacing Clinical Hours with Simulation in Undergraduate Nursing Education: Means to an End, or an End in Itself? Creative Nursing, 29 (2), 187-191.