Nichole Harvey

A/Professor Harvey is an experienced academic with a highly regarded and comprehensive teaching portfolio. During her academic career she has consistently achieved in the top 10% (outstanding range) for student satisfaction with her teaching and is the recipient of a James Cook University, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Australian Award for University Teaching. A/Prof Harvey is a co-author for two highly regarded national nursing foundational textbooks. Over the duration of her two plus decade academic career she has taught nursing, midwifery, medical, and allied health students in a variety of teaching modes: internal, external, fully on-line and limited delivery (i.e. residential schools). Currently, she predominately teaches clinical skills to medical students across years 1-5 in simulated environments.

Throughout her academic career A/Prof Harvey has held several key leadership positions, notably the Academic Lead, Clinical Skills (Medicine) and previously the Director of Undergraduate Studies for both the Bachelor of Nursing Sciences and Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Midwifery programs. Additionally, she has held course and subject coordinator roles, curriculum coordinator roles as well as the role of Academic Advisor. A significant strength of A/Prof Harvey is her ability to work collaboratively with clinicians/industry partners to ensure positive learning experiences for students, with the mutual aim of ensuring best patient outcomes are achieved. With this aim in mind, she sits on a number of community groups, working parties and works clinically, as able, to strengthen and maintain these relationships and her clinical expertise.

A/Prof Harvey successfully completed her PhD in 2012. She is a research mentor for beginning researchers and actively assists peers with all aspects of the research process. A/Prof Harvey supervises Higher Degree Research (HDR) students as well as Honours students, both in the College of Medicine and Dentistry and the Discipline of Nursing and Midwifery. Her research portfolio is growing each year, with two edited books, 34 book chapters, a number of refereed journal articles and conference presentations. She reviews articles for a number of refereed journals; is a member of two clinical reference groups for the National Blood Authority in Australia; and assesses HDR students’ oral and written work.