Sophia Dywili

Biography

I am a Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife and Operating Theatre Nurse who graduated from Mpilo School of Nursing & Midwifery in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. I have worked in Zimbabwe as an operating theatre nurse and midwife before being promoted to clinical nurse instructor (CNE). Following completion of a diploma in Nurse Education and a Bachelor's degree in Adult Education at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) I moved on for my Master of Science in Nursing where I majored in Family & Child Health/Midwifery. Courses attended outside Zimbabwe included a Diploma in International Maternal Health Care which I attended in Uppsala, Sweden and, a Training & Training Management Course attended in Aarhus Technical College, Denmark in 1999. In 2001 I joined the Zimbabwe Open University as a lecturer on the BSc Nursing distance education program and, in 2004 I decided to pursue my nursing career across the oceans. In Australia I worked as a medical/surgical nurse for three years in Bankstown Hospital, before taking up a promotion post in 2008 as a CNE in Liverpool Hospital. Since 2009 I have been working at CSU as a lecturer. I am currently undertaking PhD part time studies and my research topic is: The experience of sub-Saharan African overseas-qualified nurses working in regional Australia.

Research Interest

Maternal health