Liz Ditzel | |
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Other names | Elizabeth Mary Ditzel Elizabeth Hall |
Awards | Ako Aotearoa Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching |
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Alma mater | North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust University of Otago |
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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.
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]