Connect with Justine O'Donovan
Justine puts her nursing and transfusion sector experience to use as she facilitates Clinical Trials on precision medicine that have an involve Lifeblood donors and hospital patients.
Justine has a Diploma of Applied Science-Nursing, and has completed Haematology Nursing and Immunisation for Health Practitioners at the Australian College of Nursing. Justine is a graduate of the NSW Health Clinical Excellence Commissions Executive Leadership Course and has a Masters of Pharmaceutical Medicine from the University of NSW.
Justine’s work is about best practice in research to ensure participant safety. Justine also acts as a clinical reference point for our researcher’s conducting studies on donor health.
Awards
- Australian College of Nursing, Education Scholarship, 2012
- New South Wales Nurses Scholarship Foundation, Lions Club Scholarship, 2016
Leadership
- Nurse Lead NSW Medical Services
- National Hemovigilance Officer
- Clinical Research Nurse Consultant
Key publications
The Troublesome Ticks Research Protocol: Developing a Comprehensive, Multidiscipline Research Plan for Investigating Human Tick-Associated Disease in Australia
2022
Pathogens
11(11):1290
Evaluation of a sterile surgical skin marker to indicate the optimal vein for venepuncture in the blood donation setting
2020
Vox sanguinis
115(5):377-387.
Evaluation of a tool to score donor vein suitability for blood donation
2019
Vox sanguinis
114(6): 588-594.
Does using applied muscle tension at strategic time points during donation reduce phlebotomist‐and donor‐reported vasovagal reaction rates? A three‐armed randomized controlled trial.
2018
Transfusion.
58(10):2352-2359.
