Nursing & Midwifery
Heather Latham
MN
B SocSci
Dip Nurse Ed
Cert PN
Cert Mid
Cert GN
Position Undergraduate Courses
Manager
Campus Bathurst
Office S14 - Room 6
Phone (02) 6338 4499
Fax (02) 6338 4408
EMAIL HEATHER LATHAM 
General Introduction
Qualifications
- Master of Nursing (USyd )
- Bachelor of Social Science (CSU )
- Diploma in Nurse Education (ACAE)
- Post Basic Certificate in Paediatric Nursing
- Certificate in Midwifery
- Certificate in General Nursing
Teaching Interests
- Primary Health Care
- Child and Family Health
- Gender Health
- Master of Clinical Nursing Supervision
Research Interests
- Workplace learning and support
- Barriers limiting university access for rural and remote students
- Child and family health
- Women's health issues
- Rural and remote nurse education
- Distance education
- Thesis Topic: The Relationships Between Parent's Health Beliefs and the Health Care Activities they Provide for their School Aged Child
Memberships
- College of Nursing, Sydney
- Royal College of Nursing Australia
- Association for Australian Rural Nurses
- Association Welfare of Child Health
Professional Activities
- Member, Sydney Adventist Hospital (Avondale College of Nursing) Bachelor of Nursing External Advisory Committee
- Member, Working Party - Greater Western Area Health Service to explore the educational opportunities for Enrolled Nurses and Indigenous Primary Health Care Workers in Broken Hill
- Member, Greater Southern Area Health Service Bachelor of Nursing (Griffith Cohort) Reference Group
- Member of CSU Research Centre (RIPPLE)
- Member, CSU Health Promotion Group (Bathurst campus)
- Deputy Presiding Officer, Faculty of Health Studies, Exclusions and Appeals Committee
Career Highlights
Publications
- Flynn, K, Hickey, N & Latham, H 2006, ‘Double degree nursing graduates: Will
nursing be the career for them?’ Collegian (in press). - Hamilton, M, Latham, H & Manners, J 2005, ‘University outreach: The development
and evaluation of a two-day pre-enrolment enabling workshop to address
dispositional, situational and institutional barriers limiting university access for
rural and remote students’, Proceedings of the Student Experience Conference,
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. - Latham, H, Giffard, L & Pollard M 2004, ‘Collaborative partnership to implement an
interactive educational model to address the shortage of registered nurses
(RNs) in rural Australia’, Proceedings of the Royal College of Nursing Australia
Conference, Alice Springs. - Latham, H, Giffard, L & Pollard, M 2004, ‘University/health service partnership: A
model to deliver undergraduate nurse education in rural Australia’, Collegian
(paper under review). - Hamilton, M, Latham, H, Gibb, H, Manners, J, Bragg, S & Townsend, J 2003,
‘Collaborative partnerships to develop and implement culturally responsive
academic preparation pathways for remote and Aboriginal distance education
nursing students’, Proceedings of the 1st NSW Rural Allied Health Professionals
Conference, Sydney. - Latham, H & Haley, C 2003, ‘The health fair: Primary health care with a difference’,
Proceedings of the 1st NSW Rural Allied Health Professionals Conference,
Sydney. - Flynn, K, Hickey, N & Latham, H 2003, ‘Double degree courses encompassing the
Bachelor of Nursing: Educational and employment outcomes for students’,
Connections, vol. 6, no. 2, pp.43. - Harrison, L, Latham, H & McLeod, S 2003, ‘Double degrees: Double value’, invited
paper presented to 18th Annual Early Childhood Intervention Conference,
Brighton Beach, Sydney, NSW, 21 August.