| Liz Ditzel | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Elizabeth Mary Ditzel Elizabeth Hall |
| Awards | Ako Aotearoa Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust University of Otago |
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| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Otago Polytechnic, University of Otago |
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. 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. Ditzel then returned to nursing education, joining the faculty of Otago Polytechnic in 2010, and rising to full professor in 2019.
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. 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.
In 2017 Ditzel was awarded a national teaching award, an Ako Aotearoa Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching. The citation described her as "a ‘new paradigm’ thinker with a “modern approach”, committed to student-centred and innovative approaches to teaching and learning".
Selected works
Scholia has a profile for Liz Ditzel (Q87421529).
- 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.
- Hall L (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
- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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