Dr Yenna Salamonson

Dr. Yenna Salamonson is an Associate Professor and the Director of Community Engagement & International 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 focuses on educational performance in nursing students, cardiovascular nursing and quantitative research methods. She is the author of more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and numerous conference proceedings. Currently, Yenna is supervising a number of Honours and PhD students in cardiovascular research, cultural diversity and professional identity. Yenna is passionate about academic mentorship and supporting the next generation of nurse leaders. She is 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.