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.

Gerene Bauldoff is a Professor of Clinical Nursing at The Ohio State University College of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio. She has been a nurse educator for 14 years, teaching medical-surgical nursing, translational science, and evidence-based practice courses at the baccalaureate, master’s,and doctoral levels. Prior to her nursing educator role, her clinical background included home health nurse, lung transplant coordinator, and pulmonary rehabilitation coordinator.

Dr. Bauldoff has a diploma from the Western Pennsylvania Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a BSN from LaRoche College in Pittsburgh. Her graduate education is from the University of Pittsburgh, with a MSN in medical-surgical nursing (cardiopulmonary clinical nurse specialist) and PhD in nursing in 2001, training under Leslie Hoffman, PhD, RN, FAAN. Dr. Bauldoff is an active member of multiple professional organizations including the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR), the American Thoracic Society Nursing Assembly, and the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP).

She is a recognized expert in medical-surgical nursing, focusing on the care of the patient with chronic pulmonary disease, serving on committees focusing on patient-centered outcomes in pulmonary rehabilitation. She has been honored with fellowships in AAN, AACVPR, and ACCP. In 2013, Dr. Bauldoff was the keynote speaker at the Nanning Nursing Education Conference in Nanning, China, attended by representatives from more than 100 nursing schools in China.

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.

Associate Professor Emeritus, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri; Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing, College of Nursing, the Ohio State University Priscilla LeMone spent most of her career as a nurse educator, teaching medical–surgical nursing and pathophysiology at all levels from diploma to doctoral students.

She has a diploma in nursing from Deaconess College of Nursing (St. Louis, Missouri), baccalaureate and master’s degrees from Southeast Missouri State University, and a doctorate in nursing from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. She is retired as an Associate Professor Emeritus, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, but continues to keep up to date in nursing both as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, College of Nursing and as an author of nursing textbooks.

Dr LeMone had numerous awards for scholarship and teaching during her more than 30 years as a nurse educator. She is most honoured for receiving the Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from the University of Missouri, the Unique Contribution Award from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, and for being selected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr LeMone currently lives in Ohio. She enjoys travelling, gardening, knitting and reading fiction. She believes that her education gave her solid and everlasting roots in nursing. Her work with students has given her the wings that have allowed her love of nursing and teaching to continue through the years.