Trish Burton is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing, in the College of Health and Biomedicine, at Victoria University. Her nursing background is in adult intensive care, infectious diseases and emergency nursing.

In the nurse academic role, Trish has held many course coordination roles at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has an extensive curriculum development background, and teaches acute care, pharmacology, research and professional practice issues.

Trish has been an author for fundamentals of nursing, medical surgical nursing and health assessment texts. She has enjoyed the challenge of mapping national competency standards for the registered nurse in nursing texts and is currently mapping the NMBA Registered nurse standards for practice for publication. Trish’s current research interest is in nurse-led cardiovascular clinics in the general practice setting.

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.