Nursing & Midwifery
What's on in the School
Conference 2009
The School of Nursing and Midwifery is preparing for its "Inaugural CSU Nursing & Midwiifery Conference 2009: Priorities in Practice, Education & Research." The conference, the first of its kind for the School is to be held at the Albury Convention Centre on the 23rd & 24th October 2009.
The conference theme is based on education, clinical practice and research and will focus on Primary Health Care, Nursing in Rural communities and the challenges facing our Rural Nurses today.
This exciting new conference will provide delegates, sponsors and exhibitors with extremely effective marketing and communication channels.
There will be a call for Abstracts leading up to the conference which will give Health professionals a chance to submit their research and receive recognition at an international level.
Professor Elaine Duffy, HOS School of Nursing & Midwifery, CSU, Professor Sue Frost, from University of Huddersield, UK, Professor Cynthia Stuhlmiller, University of Hawaii and Professor Debra Thoms, Chief Nurse NSW are our keynote speakers.
Visiting Scholars
The School of Nursing & Midwifery is lucky enough to have Dr Denise Seigart, Professor of Health Sciences, Mansfield University, Pennsylvania, visiting our Wagga Wagga campus to conduct research on school-based health care, specifically an international comparison (US, Australia, Canada) of models for providing health care for children through schools. This study is an expansion of her dissertaion topic "A comparision of school nursing with school-based health centres".
As well as having her many papers published, giving conference presentations and a number of research and academic work , Denise also has a number of years experience in developing and teaching numerous online courses in Childbearing, Nursing Research, Women's Health Issues and Public Health & Social Justice. She has been a Visiting Professor at Volgograd University in Russia where she taught conversational English and a course on American Women and feminism.
Our Students
We are fortunate enought to have a diverse range of students within the School of Nursing and Midwifery which allows for many different experiences before, during and after the course.
Former Bachelor of Nursing student Maree Mitchell is a prime example, recently swimming the English Channel with a group of 5 other women to raise funds to help build a maternity hospital in Afghanistan.
For more information go to the online news article - Maree Mitchell