Staff profile
Ms Yolanta McLaughlin
Lecturer
Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Nursing and MidwiferyDepartment of Rural Nursing and Midwifery
Albury-Wodonga
- T: +61 2 6024 9707
- E: y.mclaughlin@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
BA Macq., GradDip NursStud Arm CAE, Med Csturt, RN
Area of study
Midwifery
Brief profile
Yolanta's involvement in the education of students of nursing has particular emphasis on the classroom-clinical interface. She teaches in the undergraduate program, coordinating professional nursing studies, health assessment and nursing therapeutics and practice subjects. She is committed to the inquiry based learning approach.
Her research interests are in the area of clinical teaching and learning, in particular educators/students' experiences of learning and assessment of clinical performance.
In 1992 she completed Palliative Care Volunteer training and acted as a community and hospital volunteer. Recently she started undertaking regular Faculty Practice in palliative care units. In 2000 she was involved in a research study which aims to investigate and compare the attitudes and practices of health care professionals on the day a person dies in a hospital, hospice or aged care facility.
