Pioneer in nursing education, Dr Joan Durdin AM, RN, FRCNA (Hon), DUniv 1994, with Professor Alison Kitson, Vice President and Executive Dean, College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the 40 Years of Nursing Graduates Celebration in 2018.
Welcome
As part of the celebration of the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, Flinders University’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences has initiated this website project to document a living history of nursing education at the University, a pioneer in nursing education in South Australia.
In 1975 work began on the ground-breaking nursing curriculum at Sturt College of Advanced Education, Bedford Park which later merged with Flinders University. This was the first tertiary institution in South Australia and the third in Australia to offer such a program, designed to prepare students of nursing to obtain an undergraduate Diploma.
Since the initiation of this program nursing education, and more latterly midwifery, has continued to this day offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses, graduating more than 16,600 students in the past 44 years.
The project will provide a living history of the University’s contribution to nursing and midwifery in South Australia, capturing how professional training continues to adapt to the changing needs of the community and the values that underpin care. We will collect and share stories from alumni, students and staff that celebrate the diverse and changing role of the profession in global healthcare.
We encourage you to get involved.
Professor Alison Kitson
Vice President and Executive Dean
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Flinders University
College
The College of Nursing and Health Sciences is an innovator in contemporary education and is at the heart of advanced learning across the health sector including nursing, midwifery, disability, allied health and health sciences.
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South Australia 5042
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