Rate My Professor Miriam Bayes

Ms Miriam Bayes is a Lecturer in Nursing within the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health, Adelaide University. She is a registered nurse and nurse academic working within the UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences Academic Unit at the Mt Gambier Learning Centre. Bayes has completed postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Education, including a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education (GradCertClinEd), a Bachelor of Nursing (BN), and holds registrations as a Registered Nurse (RN) and Registered Midwife (RM). Her clinical practice spans diverse settings including maternity and paediatrics, emergency, and education, with a focus on clinical facilitation and transition to practice.

Bayes' teaching strengths include Acute Care Nursing and Transition to Practice. She teaches and coordinates courses such as NURS 2022 Health of Infants, Children and Adolescents (2024, 2025), NURS 2033 Experiential Learning Activity: Acute Care Practicum 3 (2025), NURS 2040 Assessment, Diagnostics and Pharmacotherapeutics (2025), NURS 3045 Nursing Context of Practice: Primary Health Care (2024, 2025), NURS 3056 Transition to Professional Practice (2025), HLTH 1036 Global and National Health (2024), Professional Experience Placement 3 (NURS 2901), and Becoming a Nursing Professional (NURS 1000). Prior to her current academic appointment, she was a clinical facilitator and graduate nurse educator at the Mount Gambier and District Health Service. In research, she co-authored the systematic review 'The Effectiveness of Suicide Prevention Education Programs for Nurses: A Systematic Review' (Ferguson et al., Crisis, 39(2), 96-109, 2018).