Rate My Professor Nicole Graham

Nicole Graham serves as a Lecturer in Nursing within the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University, based at the Gold Coast campus. She holds a Bachelor of Nursing from Griffith University and a Master of Advanced Practice, and is a credentialed mental health nurse. Her career includes extensive experience in inpatient and community mental health nursing, interdisciplinary education, and nursing leadership in a tertiary hospital and health service, where she coordinated and reviewed transition to practice mental health programs. Currently, she is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr. Louise Whitaker as principal supervisor and Professor John Hurley as co-supervisor. Her doctoral research explores interdisciplinary and lived experience understandings of trauma-informed care and socio-ecological factors that influence training and implementation in mental health settings. Graham's academic interests focus on trauma-informed care, mental health lived experience workers, and cultivating a skilled workforce to optimize care for people experiencing mental illness, alongside enhancing transition to practice for health discipline students.