Codesigning educational escape rooms to enhance clinical education
| Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
| Grand Ballroom |
Overview
Dr Michelle Freeling, Dr Allison Roderick, Dr Oluwatomilayo Omoya & Samantha Wilson
Speaker
Michelle Freeling
UniSA
Codesigning educational escape rooms to enhance clinical education
4:40 PM - 5:10 PMBiography
Michelle Freeling is a Lecturer in Nursing at UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences. Michelle's clinical expertise spans perioperative nursing and community nursing, complemented by her PhD, a mixed methods study exploring nurse presenteeism and work-life conflict. Michelle is passionate about teaching and research, particularly in making pharmacology and pathophysiology accessible and enjoyable for nursing students. Her research work encompass nurse well-being, nurse burnout, workforce continuity, feminist issues in nursing, and nursing students' experiences of workplace violence. At UniSA, she coordinates and teaches courses NURS5170 Perioperative Nursing and NURS5171 Decision-Making for Midwifery and Nursing Practice, among others. Michelle is passionate about integrating gamification into healthcare education, and the design of educational escape rooms, seeking innovative ways to enhance learning experiences in nursing education.
Dr Tomi Omoya
Flnders University/TQEH
Codesigning educational escape rooms to enhance clinical education
4:40 PM - 5:10 PMBiography
Tomi is a Lecturer in Nursing at Flinders University, College of Nursing and Health Sciences. With a robust background in emergency care nursing, Tomi has led and collaborated on numerous research projects. These projects span various fields, including ageing, end-of-life, and palliative care in emergency departments (the focus of Tomi's PhD), as well as end of life and palliative care in the community since 2021. Additionally, Tomi has been involved in research on higher education experiences since 2022.
Dr Allison Roderick
Adelaide University
Codesigning educational escape rooms to enhance clinical education
4:40 PM - 5:10 PMBiography
Dr Allison Roderick is the Program Director - Postgraduate Nursing & Midwifery and Senior Lecturer at the UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences. Allison completed her Nursing degree at the University of South Australia in 1995. She then pursued a career in Intensive Care which saw her work in both public and private ICUs in Adelaide, Darwin and London. On her return to Australia she undertook her PhD at Flinders University, entitled "Beyond Basics: Embedded infection control in everyday practices of nurses in an intensive care unit". Her research to date has used qualitative methodology to unpack infection control, missed care, quality & safety and mass-gatherings. Her career has also enabled her to have close connections with industry including: infection control, education, ICU, perioperative and COVID surveillance.
Samantha Wilson
Clinical Nurse
Women’s And Children’s Hospital
Codesigning educational escape rooms to enhance clinical education
4:40 PM - 5:10 PMBiography