Dr. Trudy Dwyer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at CQUniversity Australia, Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health, CQ University.

She is interested in the facilitating of learning in a clinical context.

Majella Hales has been nursing for over 20 years. After recently resigning from 10 years in Academia lecturing in science and nursing units, she now works freelance in the production of education resources for nurses and other undergraduate health care professionals.

She maintains her clinical experience by undertaking agency shifts in critical care units in hospitals across south east Queensland and provides clinical facilitation for undergraduate nursing students for various local universities.

Majella authoured several chapters of Kozier & Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing Vols 1-3 and Lemone Burke's Medical Surgical Nursing. Along with journal articles and conference presentations, she has also produced the skills DVD for Tollefson's Clinical Psychomotor Skills text and adapted the American case study resource The Neighbourhood.

Nikki has been a Registered Nurse since 1988 and a Registered Midwife since 1995. Clinically, she has considerable experience in emergency and trauma nursing, having worked in rural and metropolitan departments. Between the years 1999 and 2010 Nikki worked for the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition at James Cook University.

She was involved in the development of both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and midwifery curricula and the teaching of student nurses and midwives. In August 2011, Nikki was appointed as a Senior Lecturer, Clinical Skills Unit, for the College of Medicine & Dentistry, James Cook University. Her current position is the Years 1-3 Clinical Skills Curriculum Coordinator and the Year 3 Clinical Skills Coordinator for medical students enrolled in the MBBS course. Nikki is a group member recipient of two James Cook University Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2013 and 2015) and a group member recipient of an Australian Award for University Teaching, Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) in 2013.

Nikki’s research interests include: midwifery; rural and remote health and education; evaluation of clinical skills teaching and simulation; interprofessional health education; and emergency nursing/care. Nikki is a co-author of the Kozier and Erb Fundamentals of Nursing textbook and is also a member of a national Clinical Reference Group for the review of the Patient Blood Management Guideline concerning Critical Bleeding and Massive Transfusions. Nikki represents both the Australian College of Nursing and the Australian College of Midwifery in her role on this Clinical Reference Group. Nikki is passionate about working collaboratively with all health professionals to achieve high quality, authentic teaching experiences that promote and encourage student learning within a safe and fun learning environment.

Prof. Lorna Moxham is a Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health at the University of Wollongong.

Lorna is a Board member of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses and an Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.