Rate My Professor Nicolette Bannink

Nicolette Bannink is a Lecturer in Nursing in the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She has extensive clinical nursing experience in the tertiary sector, encompassing acute medical, AIDS, high dependency neurosurgery, and surgical specialties including plastics, ENT, ophthalmology, maxillo-facial, general surgical, gynaecology, IVF, paediatrics, and adolescents. Bannink has worked in and run a recovery unit, with additional experience in palliative care, community palliative care, and practice nursing. This background equips her with practical insights into the opportunities, constraints, and limitations of both tertiary and community nursing roles.

Bannink holds a Master of Advanced Nursing Practice and a Graduate Certificate in Nursing (General Practice) from the Sunshine Coast region, and is a Registered Nurse. She tutored for the Graduate Certificate course, providing distance education to graduate nursing students nationwide. Since 2010, she has taught numerous undergraduate nursing courses at the University of the Sunshine Coast. As a research assistant on the Care Coordination through Emergency Department, Residential Aged Care and Primary Health Collaboration (CEDRiC) project—which received the 2017 Queensland Premier's Award—she developed the CEDRiC Toolkit and the Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) Toolkit. She is a co-author on the GEDI Toolkit (2017), CEDRiC Toolkit (2017), and the Evaluation of the Care Coordination through Emergency Department Residential Aged Care project report. Her specialist areas of knowledge include practice nursing, primary health care, and palliative care. Research interests focus on geriatric nursing care improvements and compassionate communities. Bannink adopts a student-focused teaching approach, utilizing innovative methods to engage undergraduate nursing students.