Mrs. Nicole Coombs
Senior Lecturer, Nursing
Campus
Biography
Nicole Coombs has been an academic at Federation University since 2015. Nicole is currently teaching in the areas of primary health and health promotion.
With previous experience as an emergency nurse, Nicole is eager to close the great divide between the acute clinical focus of nursing and preventative care. Her professional interests lie in public health and nursing education.
Nicole is an early career researcher, with several publications (peer reviewed articles and one book chapter) and conference presentations in the areas of patient education, nurse education and curriculum development. She has professional membership with the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia and the Australian Nurse Teacher’s Society of Australia.
Nicole has been developing skills in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and is currently undertaking a PhD, consisting of a mixed methods study regarding public health messages being provided by emergency nurses during disasters in Australia.
Fields of research
- Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
- Community and primary care
- Health promotion
- Publications
Student led community health checks in regional Victoria: A mixed methods study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1002/hpja.909