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Mei-hui Huang (Taiwan)
Master of Nursing—Graduate 2000
PhD Student 2007
My name is Mei-hui Huang. I graduated from QUT in 2000 with a Master of Nursing degree. I returned to Taiwan after I finished my study and became a lecturer in the department of Nursing at Tzu-hui Institute of Technology, where I also took on the position of clinical practice coordinator.
The clinical practice coordinator in the nursing school was a challenging position. I was responsible for assigning more than 200 students to 11 hospitals for their practical placements, maintaining contact with hospitals, providing help to clinical instructors, and responding to students’ and parents’ enquiries.
Teaching is my favourite job: I like to build good rapport with students. I also believe that a good role model can help students to adapt to their new nursing roles. Therefore, I always remind myself to be caring, understanding, and assertive to my students. In my role as a lecturer, I encouraged them to challenge my opinions to enhance their critical thinking. I also used role-play to demonstrate scenarios and improve their problem-solving skills. I learned a lot from QUT teachers. My experiences studying at QUT have improved my teaching methods and enabled me to enjoy teaching and learning with my students.
After four years of teaching, I decided to pursue a higher research degree. So, in 2004, I enrolled in the PhD program at QUT. My research focuses on the factors that influence the self-directed learning readiness of nursing students. I hope that the findings from my research will provide nurse educators with information that will enable them to support and develop their students’ self-directed learning abilities.
Todd Sundin (USA)
Bachelor of Nursing—Graduate 2006
I completed my Bachelor of Nursing in November 2006 and am now working as an RN at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a general medical ward. In the future, I would like to move to an emergency department and, later, nurse in a remote area in Australia. I found that the QUT nursing program allowed me to be in a number of different clinical placements―including orthopaedic, cardiac, accident and emergency, and even a remote placement in Western Australia, five hours west of Uluru (Ayers Rock). This allowed me a wide variety of experiences that have helped me in starting my nursing career. The QUT nursing programs also offer a number of bio-science and medical and surgical classes. These gave me knowledge about how the body functions, diseases and treatments, health care teams, the nursing role, and much, much more.
