Dr Yenna Salamonson

Dr. Yenna Salamonson is an Associate Professor and the Director of Community Engagement, International and Marketing at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia. She has committed over 20 years of her academic career to creating a positive learning experience for students within nursing education, and at the same time, worked in the clinical setting as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, in Intensive Care, High Dependency and Coronary Care units.

Yenna’s scholarship is focused on cardiovascular nursing, pharmacology and quantitative research methods. She is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and numerous conference proceedings. Recently, she completed two funded educational research projects to improve the academic performance of nursing students for whom English is their second language. Yenna is a strong advocate of the use of technology such as Web-based learning to address the different learning needs of nursing students and has been a key driver in redesigning and redeveloping teaching units to a blended learning format. In addition to this, Yenna is also actively involved in research related to cardiovascular disease management and care and is currently supervising a number of PhD students in this area. She is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, one of the top-ranked nursing journals published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Yenna has been a recipient of a number of teaching awards. In 2008, her teaching excellence was formally recognised within the university where she works with two teaching awards, the: i) College of Health & Science Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning; and ii) Winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Teaching. In 2009, she received a national Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Yenna was born in Malaysia, and completed her nursing training at the Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney, Australia. She is a graduate of Macquarie University where she earned a BSc in biological science and MA in Education & Work. In 2002, she graduated with a PhD from the University of Western Sydney.