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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Campus 'stars' feature in nursing textbook 

Thousands of nursing students throughout Australia will be looking at illustrations featuring CQUniversity Rockhampton academics, students and family members...

Anyone with a pulse strolling the corridors of Building 18 became fair game to feature in the first Australian edition of a 3-volume textbook called 'Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing'. LINK to a VIDEO about our textbook involvement

PhotoID:7527, Some of the local stars in the pages of the textbook
Some of the local stars in the pages of the textbook

CQUniversity Nursing academics Associate Professor Lorna Moxham*, Dr Trudy Dwyer** and Dr Kerry Reid-Searl have contributed as unit coordinating authors for the textbook published by Pearson Australia. LINK to Kerry's novel teaching skills ‘unmasked' in Italy

The new books have plenty of page corners turned over to indicate the local stars photographed by a crew drawn from Singapore and Canada.

Described as "the number-one choice of nursing students and lecturers", the textbook has a focus on practical application with real-world Australian examples and case studies.

LINK here for more details on the textbook

LINK for Research aims for healthier nurses

The Rockhampton Campus Nursing trio have been commissioned to update another Pearson nursing textbook: Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care.

They are also contributing authors for Pearson Education's 'Student Nurse Survival Guide' series.

LINK to Student nurse survival guide now in European pockets

PhotoID:7528, Lorna, Kerry and Trudy with the new textbook volumes
Lorna, Kerry and Trudy with the new textbook volumes

* Association Professor Moxham has been included in the Who's Who of Australian Women 2009-2010. ** Dr Dwyer has recently been selected for the 2009-2010 Edition of Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

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