Table Of ContentVOL.I
ENSURING
QUALITY IN
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION
Human Client Fields Pedagogy
and Knowledge Structures
Edited by
Karen Trimmer, Tara Newman
& Fernando F. Padró
Ensuring Quality in Professional Education
Volume I
Karen Trimmer
Tara Newman • Fernando F. Padró
Editors
Ensuring Quality in
Professional
Education Volume I
Human Client Fields Pedagogy and
Knowledge Structures
Editors
Karen Trimmer Tara Newman
University of Southern Queensland Texas State University
Toowoomba, QLD, Australia San Marcos, TX, USA
Fernando F. Padró
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
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Acknowledgements
The editors are very grateful to the following individuals without whom
this book would not have been published:
• Ms Eleanor Christie and the editorial team at Palgrave Macmillan for
all their work in getting this publication to press
• Ms Katrina Wilson for her attention to detail and patience in copy-
editing the manuscript and composing the index
• The chapter authors for their respective chapters and for engaging
wholeheartedly with feedback from editors and peer reviewers
• The scholars who provided double blind peer reviews of one or more
submitted chapters:
– Associate Professor Lindy-Anne Abawi, University of Southern
Queensland, Australia
– Associate Professor Dorothy Andrews, University of Southern
Queensland, Australia
– Dr Peter Ayriss, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
– Associate Professor Lyn Brodie, University of Southern Queensland,
Australia
– Dr Chris Browne, Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia
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vi Acknowledgements
– Associate Professor Joan Conway, University of Southern
Queensland, Australia
– Matt Eliot, Central Queensland University, Australia
– Professor Joy Higgs, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, Australia
– Mrs Vicki Horner, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
– Professor Margaret Jollands, Associate Dean School of Engineering,
RMIT University, Victoria, Australia
– Associate Professor Warren Midgley, University of Southern
Queensland, Australia
– Professor Sid Nair, Executive Director, Tertiary Education
Commission, Mauritius
– Sasha Nikolic, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
– Professor Shirley O’Neill, University of Southern Queensland,
Australia
– Associate Professor Petrea Redmond, University of Southern
Queensland, Australia
– Professor Cath Rogers, University of Southern Queensland,
Australia
– Dr Cheryl Ross, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
– Dr Ashley Schmitt, Texas A&M University, USA
– Mr Jay Somasundarams, Central Queensland University, Australia
– Associate Professor Linda Sweet, Flinders University, South Australia
– Mr Mark Symes, University of Tasmania, Australia
– Robert Templeton, University of Southern Queensland,
Toowoomba, Australia
– Dr Victoria Terry, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
– Professor James Trevelyan, The University of Western Australia
– Jaclyn Viera, Judson Independent School District, Texas, USA
• Our colleagues for their continuing encouragement and interest
• Our families and friends for their inexhaustible love and support.
Karen Trimmer, Tara Newman and Fernando F. Padró
Editors
Contents
1 The Need for Case Studies to Illustrate Quality Practice:
Teaching in Higher Education to Ensure Quality of Entry
Level Professionals 1
Tara Newman, Karen Trimmer, and Fernando F. Padró
2 Higher Education in the Professions: Illustrations of
Quality Practice in Teaching and Learning 19
Christopher Gorse, Richard Cozzens, Lloyd Scott, and Ian
Dickinson
3 Simulating: Bridging the Gap Between Practice and
Theory in Higher Professional Education 53
Yngve Nordkvelle, Odd Rune Stalheim, Trine Fossland, Thomas
de Lange, Anne Line Wittek, and Monika Bærøe Nerland
4 Starting Early: Using ePortfolios to Prepare First Year
Midwifery Students for Professional Practice 73
Terri Downer and Christine Slade
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5 Starting With the End in Mind: Future Focussed
Curriculum in Health Promotion 99
Jane Taylor, Theresa Ashford, Karen Shelley, and Kylie Readman
6 Towards a Culturally Inclusive Model of Care: Quality
Practice and Care Through the Lens of a Practising Nurse 123
Natalie Goldman and Karen Trimmer
7 Viable Knowledge: Practice Led Learning 151
Lyn Karstadt
8 Designing for Collaboration: A Simulation-Based
Interprofessional Team Training Session for Medical and
Nursing Students in Norway 169
Ingunn Aase and Karina Aase
9 Developing Curriculum: Nursing Students’ Involvement
in Skills Training Design 189
Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland, Ingunn Aase, and Karina Aase
10 Developing Lifelong Learning Skills: Using a Traffic Light
Report to Promote Competency Standards and Self-
Assessment Among Pharmacy Undergraduates 209
Rosie Nash, Leanne Chalmers, Ieva Stupans, and Natalie Brown
11 The Work-Integrated Learning Program: Developing
Employability Skills in Psychology Undergraduates 241
Jessica Z. Marrington, Annissa O’Shea, and Lorelle J. Burton
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12 Post-Graduate Supervision of Indigenous Students in the
Health- Related Fields 259
Don Gorman, Fernando F. Padró, and Nona Press
13 The Complex, Multi-layered Business of Developing
Quality Professional Education in Universities 289
Sara Hammer
Index 303
List of Contributors
Ingunn Aase Faculty of Health Sciences, Centre for Resilience in Healthcare,
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Karina Aase Faculty of Health Sciences, Centre for Resilience in Healthcare,
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Theresa Ashford Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and
Teaching, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
Natalie Brown Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment,
Academic Quality and Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching, University
of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Lorelle J. Burton University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD,
Australia
Leanne Chalmers Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Pharmacy and
Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia
Richard Cozzens Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, USA
Ian Dickinson Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
Terri Downer School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, University of
the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
Trine Fossland UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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