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Mrs Martina Costello

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Email: m.costello@ecu.edu.au
Campus: South West  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2280-3368

Martina is a unit coordinator within the undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programs, across both campuses.  Martina is a PhD candidate at ECU. Remaining clinically active enables Martina to implement and focus on developing students’ employability skills while providing high-quality research informed activities for students by creating optimal learning environments, and promoting equality, diversity, and social responsibility.

Background

Martina graduated from The University of Notre Dame Australia, with a Bachelor of Nursing (2013) Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (2015),and Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing) (2018). She is now pursuing her PhD at Edith Cowan University. Martina successfully completed her courses whilst forging a career, working in a remote hospital in WA. Gaining experience in accident and emergency, paediatric, outpatients, community, and medical Nursing.  She consolidated her graduate nursing experience at Joondalup Health Campus, in both orthopaedics and acute medical wards.

Current Teaching

  • NPU2303 Nursing Practice 3
  • NSP5302 Advanced Nursing Practice 1

Professional Associations

  • Associate HEARDSA fellowship
  • Transcript reviewer for BMC
  • ECU SNM Simulation Innovation Team
  • Australian Nursing Federation
  • Australian College of Nursing
  • Sigma Theta Tau

Awards

  • National and International Awards: 2019 Ramsay Health care Preceptor of the Month Award (April 2019)

Research Areas and Interests 

  • Narrative inquiry
  • The importance of teamwork among nursing staff
  • Workforce
  • Simulation
  • Improving education, practice and patient outcomes through science
  • Peer review of teaching
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning

Qualifications

  • Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Edith Cowan University, 2021.
  • Master of Nursing, University of Notre Dame Australia, 2018.
  • Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing, University of Notre Dame Australia, 2015.
  • Bachelor of Nursing, University of Notre Dame Australia, 2013.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Costello, M., Rusell, K., Coventry, T. (2021). Examining the average scores of nursing teamwork subscales in an acute private medical ward. BMC Nursing, 20(December 2021), Article number 84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00609-z.
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