Dr Mooi Standing is an independent academic nursing consultant with over 40 years' experience that includes: (i) practising mental health and adult nursing in a range of hospital and community settings; (ii) lecturing pre-registration and post-registration nursing students from certificate to Master's level and presenting scholarly papers at international nursing conferences; (iii) researching how nurses develop clinical decision-making skills and publishing articles, books and chapters on this topic for nursing students, registered nurses and advanced practitioners; and (iv) providing external consultancy in curriculum development and quality enhancement of nursing programmes both nationally and internationally.

Mooi is currently a Series Editor for Learning Matters' Transforming Nursing Practice book series and has had extensive experience serving as a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Quality Assurance Reviewer of nursing educational programmes, and as a Professional Regulator as a Panellist on the NMC Practice Committee.