Ms Vivienne Leigh is a course coordinator – postgraduate Nursing at the UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences.
Viv has completed three undergraduate degrees in Nursing, Science and Education. Her Nursing degree was completed at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle; Bachelor of Science (microbiology) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and a Bachelor of Education (Adult) at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. Upon completion of her Nursing degree, Viv pursued a career in cardiothoracic intensive care nursing at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney where she remained for six years before moving to Adelaide. She completed her postgraduate certificate in critical care nursing at the University of Technology Sydney... Read more
About me
Ms Vivienne Leigh is a course coordinator – postgraduate Nursing at the UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences.
Viv has completed three undergraduate degrees in Nursing, Science and Education. Her Nursing degree was completed at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle; Bachelor of Science (microbiology) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and a Bachelor of Education (Adult) at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. Upon completion of her Nursing degree, Viv pursued a career in cardiothoracic intensive care nursing at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney where she remained for six years before moving to Adelaide. She completed her postgraduate certificate in critical care nursing at the University of Technology Sydney in 2015. Viv has worked in both public and private ICUs across Adelaide as a critical care qualified nurse, ICU educator and ICU clinical manager prior to returning to clinical education.
In 2019, Viv completed a Master of Clinical Science at the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), University of Adelaide, entitled “The effectiveness and harms of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of delirium in adults admitted into the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery: a systematic review”.
About me
Master of Clinical Science University of Adelaide
Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing University of Technology Sydney
Bachelor of Nursing with Clinical Honours (Transition to Practice) University of Tasmania
Bachelor of Education (Adult Education) Massey University
Bachelor of Science University of Otago
Bachelor of Nursing University of Notre Dame
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Hibbert P., Schultz T., Leigh V. (2020) A Review of SA Health and Wellbeing’s Safety Learning System. SA Health and Wellbeing, Adelaide, Australia 
Research
Leigh V, Stern C, Elliott R, Tufanaru C. Effectiveness and harms of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of delirium in adults in intensive care units after cardiac surgery: a systematic review. JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep. 2019 Oct;17(10):2020-2074. doi: 10.11124/JBISRIR-D-18-00010. PMID: 31449136.
Leigh V, Tufanaru C, Elliott, R. Effectiveness and harms of pharmacological interventions in the treatment of delirium in adults in intensive care units post cardiac surgery: a systematic review protocol. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports 16(5):p 1117-1125, May 2018. | DOI: 10.11124/JBISRIR-2017-003526
Course coordinating the postgraduate course Introduction to High Acuity Nursing and Midwifery (NURS 5172) with Mr Clinton Fildes
Teaching & student supervision