Mrs. Belinda Davis
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College: School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
Department: Health and Biomedical Sciences
Campus: Bundoora West Australia
belinda.davis2@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0009-0006-6250-5858
About
Belinda Davis is a Lecturer in Nursing at RMIT and a critical care nurse with nearly 30 years’ experience across clinical, research and education settings, including more than a decade in emergency nursing at Eastern Health, four years of it as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her teaching and scholarship centre on recognising and responding to patient deterioration in adult and paediatric settings, which she builds into simulation and interprofessional education.
At RMIT she focuses on third-year teaching, interprofessional education and curriculum redevelopment. She is developing Escalation Station, an interprofessional deterioration simulation, and has led the integration of EMR-based simulation, barcode medication workflows and digital animations for A–E assessment and ISBAR handover into the Bachelor of Nursing. She also developed an Inclusive Teaching Guide for simulation and tutorials, and was co-investigator on a CEIQ-funded project supporting neurodiverse nursing students, which received second prize for poster presentation at the 2025 CDNM Symposium.
Belinda holds a Master of Nursing (Emergency Care, Research Stream) and is undertaking a PhD at La Trobe University investigating how early career nurses translate best practice into clinical care.
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Research fields
- 4205 Nursing
- 420501 Acute care
- 420505 Nursing workforce
- 390110 Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
UN sustainable development goals
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 4 Quality Education
Academic positions
- Lecturer, Nursing
- RMIT University
- Nursing
- Melbourne, Australia
- 30 Jun 2023 – Present
- Sessional Academic, Nursing
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2019 – Jun 2023
Non-academic positions
- Nurse Educator
- Alfred Health
- Surgical Services
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2022 – 2023
- Project Sub-Lead, CT NUTS/CTPA
- Eastern Health
- Emergency Medicine
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2019 – 2020
- Clinical Nurse Specialist (Emergency)
- Eastern Health
- Emergency
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2011 – 2023
- Clinical Trial Coordinator
- Eastern Health
- Eastern Clinical Research Unit, Haematology
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2004 – 2009
- Associate Nurse Manager
- Eastern Health
- Outpatients
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2003 – 2004
- Clinic Coordinator
- Eastern Health
- Pre Admission Clinic
- Melbourne, Australia
- 2003 – 2003
- Registered Nurse
- Royal London Hospital
- Endoscopy
- London, United Kingdom
- 2002 – 2003
- Registered Nurse
- Central Gippsland Health
- Medical, Surgical, Anaesthetics, ED, ICU
- Sale, Australia
- 2001 – 2002
- Registered Nurse
- Eastern Health
- Medical and Surgical Wards
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1994 – 2001
Teaching interests
Belinda teaches recognition and response to clinical deterioration in the second and third years of the Bachelor of Nursing, and advocates for it to be scaffolded progressively from first year to graduation. She uses simulation, interprofessional learning and EMR-based case studies so students practise finding information, interpreting it and escalating care the way they will in practice. She is particularly interested in paediatric deterioration and how deterioration presents across diverse patient populations, and in inclusive, psychologically safe learning environments informed by Universal Design for Learning.
Research interests
Belinda’s research looks at how new graduate nurses use evidence in practice, and how ward culture, hierarchy and transition shape their confidence to question and escalate. She is currently developing Escalation Station, an interprofessional simulation on recognising and escalating patient deterioration, along with a planned evaluation of it as a model for interprofessional education. Her Masters research examined whether urine samples in febrile paediatric emergency presentations are a wasted diagnostic test, reflecting a broader interest in reducing unnecessary testing.
