College of Healthcare Sciences Student Resources Student Assistance Directory (Nursing and Midwifery) – Who Do I Contact?

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Student Assistance Directory (Nursing and Midwifery) – Who Do I Contact?

Our Student Centre is the number one point of student contact.  If you have a question, check out AskUs – it’s a 24/7 online enquiry database with more than 1,000 commonly asked questions. The system has information on enrolments, applying to JCU, fees, scholarships, social events, calendars – everything!

Follow and like JCU Nursing and Midwifery on Facebook for nursing and midwifery student news, bursary and scholarship opportunities, awards and events, grad programs, AHPRA updates, and profiling our current JCU Nursing and Midwifery research, news and events across our teaching sites.

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Subject Enquiries
For all subject enquiries please contact your Subject Coordinator - refer to your Subject Outline for contact details or search by subject code

Nursing and Midwifery Student Advisors 
Use our online contact form to contact a Nursing and Midwifery Student Advisor.

Bachelor of Nursing Science 
Dr Peter Hartin (Course Coordinator)
Penny Coogan (Academic Advisor Townsville)
Dr Vanessa Sparke (Academic Advisor Cairns)

Bachelor of Nursing Science/Bachelor of Midwifery
Dr Heather Grimes (Course Coordinator)
Helen Coxhead (Academic Advisor)

First Year Student Experience Coordinators
Dr Peter Hartin (Townsville)
Maria Liston (Cairns)
Dr Maude Chapman (Mackay)
Jodi Brown (Mount Isa)

Professional Experience Placement (PEP) Coordinators
Elspeth Hillman (Cairns) - Academic Lead, Professional Practice
Dr Tanya Langtree (Townsville) - Academic Lead, Practice Integration

Academic Lead, Student Advocacy and Experience
Ali Bryan

GCert Diabetes Education
Elaine Cornford (Course Coordinator)

GCert Infection Control 
Dr Vanessa Sparke (Course Coordinator)

GDip Midwifery 
Dr Marie McAuliffe (Course Coordinator)

GCert/GDip/Master of Nursing (Online)
Dr Tracey Ahern (Course Coordinator)
Tracey Gooding (Deputy Course Coordinator)

Student Success Officers are responsible for providing personalised support across the student lifecycle to internal and external students.  If you need an answer to a question, start with us!  We can also refer you to the variety of services available to students at JCU.

The Learning Advisors can help you to:

  • Plan your study time
  • Learn stress management strategies
  • Understand your subject outline
  • Understand your assignment requirements
  • Plan and structure an assignment
  • Develop academic reading and research skills
  • Work with you on your writing and building arguments
  • Give you feedback on your first assignments before you submit them
  • Develop numeracy skills (maths and statistics)
  • Prepare for exams
  • Understand your lecturer and tutor expectations and feedback

You can connect with JCU's Current Students Team to talk about matters like:

  • Course and subject details, including entry requirements
  • Important dates and academic calendars
  • Subject selection and class registrations
  • Fees, financial support and scholarships
  • Student ID, access and transport concession cards
  • Student and university policies
  • Credits for previous study
  • Assessment methods and results
  • Academic records and completion letters
  • Graduations

We can also help you access other JCU services that offer mentoring, counselling, academic support, health and wellbeing support, student activities, learning resources, legal advice or childcare.

The Nursing & Midwifery Guide: Getting Started will help you find the information you need to complete your assignments and research for Nursing and Midwifery topics, and contact details for your Nursing and Midwifery Liaison Librarians.

Student Advocacy and Welfare Officers can help with information, advocacy and referral on a range of student support issues. They also help with academic support issues including exams and assessment, appeals, interpreting University policies and procedures, and academic misconduct.

Nursing and Midwifery Student Resources

Student representatives from each year level of the program will be appointed. Student representatives meet with the academic staff and course coordinators at student staff forum meetings on campus or online. These representatives act as a communication channel for students from each year level.  Course Coordinators will call for expressions of interest from students at the beginning of each academic year and we encourage students to consider this important role.

Students can also apply to represent their peers at College Curriculum Management Committee, which evaluates and approves all subject and course level curriculum changes at the college level. The committee meets online 10 times per year.  The committee chair will call for expressions of interest from students at the beginning of each academic year and we encourage students to consider this important role.

There are also representation opportunities for students to consider provided by the Education Division of the University. Please see the Education Division website for details.

The University welcomes all forms of feedback and has a formal feedback process for subjects and teaching. YourJCU subject and teaching surveys allow students to provide feedback regarding the teaching and running of the subjects which they are enrolled in. As part of our commitment to improving the quality of our subjects and teaching, we encourage all students to complete the YourJCU surveys at the end of each study period.

To demonstrate our commitment to responding transparently to student feedback, we have instituted  a webpage to report a summary of responses to student feedback provided in the YourJCU surveys.  Subject coordinators provide a description in each subject outline (section 1.5) of changes made to the subject on the basis of feedback from the previous delivery, but students have commented that it is easier to understand a response to feedback on the delivery of the subject that they have just completed.  So this year we have instituted this report of last semester’s feedback and the subject coordinator’s response to that, which will be implemented in the next delivery.

>> Nursing and Midwifery response to student feedback – Teaching Period 1, 2024

Feedback can also be provided via your year level student representatives who meet with course coordinators at least once each teaching period. Any issue should be raised with either the subject coordinator, year level advisor, course coordinator or the Academic Head of discipline or the college Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching.

If during the program you have a complaint or would like to provide feedback which falls outside of the processes listed above please see the feedback and complaints webpage.