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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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Nurse paid more for becoming a doctor 

Published on 04 January, 2006 

Rockhampton's Trudy Dwyer has become one of only a few nurses employed by Queensland Health to be paid more for gaining a PhD in a clinical area.

PhotoID:2605 She successfully applied to Queensland Health for recognition since her doctoral research on nurses and defibrillation is of direct relevance to her work as an intensive care nurse.

Dr Dwyer is a Central Queensland University lecturer who also spends part of her working week in the ICU of Rockhampton Hospital.

Her background includes 3 years of hospital training to become a nurse, 1 year of hospital-based training in intensive care, 2 years of study for her Bachelor of Health Science (Nursing) degree, a Masters degree in Clinical Education and her PhD research.

PhotoID:2606 Dr Dwyer said Queensland Health was now able to recognise nurses with extra qualifications as long as the degree was directly applicable to their workplace.