A clinical placement at Woorabinda Hospital is among the current highlights list for 2 Canadian nursing students who are on exchange at CQU Rockhampton this year.

The Canadian visitors at Woorabinda

Christine Simpson and Nicole Kelly say they have learnt a lot from their "unique experience of buzzing around" at Woorabinda, where they were made to feel very welcome.

The visitors explained that Woorabinda Hospital operates more like a doctor's clinic, which gave them a perspective quite different to anything they could have experienced in a standard hospital setting.

They said their Woorabinda experience included running a pre-school health promotion and talking on the township's radio station.

Christine and Nicole are in Rockhampton as part of a newly relaunched exchange agreement between CQU and the University of Windsor, in south-west Ontario. Christine is from Windsor and Nicole is from Markham near Toronto, where she is well known as a former competitive ice skater.

The pair have made the most of their time outside lectures to visit plenty of Australia's attractions, ranging from Cairns to Melbourne.

On campus at CQU
Socialising at the Capricornia College
Life's a beach in Australia
Meeting the wildlife
At the Opera House 
The visitors at Woorabinda Hospital
Christine meets a local