Elizabeth Mary Ditzel (also Hall) is a New Zealand nursing academic, and is a full professor at the Otago Polytechnic, specialising in nursing education, curriculum development, and the use of new technology within the nursing curriculum.
Academic career
Ditzel is a registered nurse, gaining her nursing qualifications through Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. Ditzel also earned a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Commerce from the University of Otago.[1][2] Ditzel worked as a nurse and nurse educator at Dunedin Public Hospital before becoming a lecturer in management at the University of Otago. She supervised more than forty postgraduate students, and completed a PhD titled A study of perceived occupational stress, burnout and sense of community among New Zealand nurses at the university in 2008.[3] Ditzel then returned to nursing education, joining the faculty of Otago Polytechnic in 2010, and rising to full professor in 2019.[2][1]
Ditzel is interested in the use of new technology in nursing education, and has investigated the use of mixed-reality education, standardised holographic patients, and methods for improving critical thinking and clinical reasoning in nursing students.[2][4] She collaborated with colleagues Claire Goode, Karole Hogarth, and Jean Ross to investigate the use of video in health education, which was published as a chapter in the 2021 Springer book Video Pedagogy: Theory and Practice, edited by Dilani Gedera and Arezou Zalipour.[5][6]
In 2017 Ditzel was awarded a national teaching award, an Ako Aotearoa Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching.[4][7][8] The citation described her as "a ‘new paradigm’ thinker with a “modern approach”, committed to student-centred and innovative approaches to teaching and learning".[4]
Selected works
- Elizabeth Ditzel; Pavel Strach; Petr Pirozek (6 February 2006). "An inquiry into good hospital governance: a New Zealand-Czech comparison". Health Research Policy and Systems. 4 (1): 2. doi:10.1186/1478-4505-4-2. ISSN 1478-4505. PMC 1379643. PMID 16460571. Wikidata Q25255695.
- Josephine Crawley; Liz Ditzel; Sue Walton (1 August 2012). "Using children's picture books for reflective learning in nurse education". Contemporary Nurse. 42 (1): 45–52. doi:10.5172/CONU.2012.42.1.45. ISSN 1839-3535. PMID 23050571. Wikidata Q50781114.
- L. Hall (1 September 2001). "Burnout: results of an empirical study of New Zealand nurses". Contemporary Nurse. 11 (1): 71–83. doi:10.5172/CONU.11.1.71. ISSN 1839-3535. PMID 11785867. Wikidata Q40666993.
- Emma Collins; Liz Ditzel (15 December 2021). "Standardised Holographic Patients: An Evaluation of Their Role in Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. doi:10.3233/SHTI210687. ISSN 0926-9630. Wikidata Q130007925.
- Liz Ditzel; Josie Crawley (December 2017). "What's in the box? A creative learning activity designed to develop critical thinking skills". Scope: Learning and Teaching. 3: 8–18. Wikidata Q130008745.
References
- ^ a b "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ a b c "Professoriate". Otago Polytechnic. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ Ditzel, Elizabeth Mary (2008). A study of perceived occupational stress, burnout and sense of community among New Zealand nurses (PhD thesis). University of Otago.
- ^ a b c "Dr Liz Ditzel". ako.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "Research stories: Video-enhanced education". Otago Polytechnic. September 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ^ "Search the Research Database - Otago Polytechnic". online.op.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ^ Gibb, John (10 August 2017). "Tertiary teachers honoured". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
- ^ "University of Otago Win a Quarter of the 2017 Tertiary Teaching Awards". Critic - Te Ārohi. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
External links
- Dr Liz Ditzel - Recipient of a 2017 Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award, via YouTube
- Professor Liz Ditzel's Inaugural Professorial Lecture, 12 November 2019, via YouTube
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