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Purpose and values

In 2025 we continued to focus on the School values and priorities that were developed in 2024. In 2025 this is how Health Starts With Us.

At Monash Nursing and Midwifery,

We invest in people, community and industry: In 2025, we continued to invest in our students, developing the next generation of healthcare professionals. Students participated in learning experiences in Vietnam, and across rural and regional Australia and we hosted several international visiting scholars and supported them to progress their research work. Investment in our staff included supporting attendance at 47 domestic and 17 international conferences and workshops, and the delivery of two writing retreats providing protected time in a structured program to support writing. Our industry engagement was further strengthened by partnering with health services, government agencies, and professional associations. Through these collaborations, we established joint appointments with health services, delivered targeted workshops, and supported a range of collaborative initiatives.

Our people are innovative and committed: We celebrated the commitment and innovation of our team and established new ways of doing things. Four of our staff received Vice Chancellor’s awards and another received the Dean’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence. One staff member was awarded the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) Early Career Researcher Rising Star Award. Two of our researchers were recognised in 2025 by The Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) with an Experienced Research Grant and Novice Research Grant being awarded.

Our graduates are work-ready: We have more than 3,400 students enrolled across undergraduate, graduate, and graduate research programs. Our students attended more than 75,000 days of clinical placement, across 19 health service providers and placement partners. Additionally, staff supported students navigating the new Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP) initiative introduced by the Australian Government, with more than 800 students receiving payments. We graduated 1,262 nurses and midwives across various degrees, with graduating students accepting positions across more than 20 metropolitan and nine Victorian regional health services, as well as a range of other healthcare providers.

Several new postgraduate specialties also commenced in 2025 including cancer nursing; neuroscience nursing and palliative and end of life care, all of which were positively evaluated by students and our industry partners. We are proud of our graduates, who are making a real contribution to their healthcare teams and we look forward to following their careers, confident in the knowledge that we have provided them with the skills and capabilities to handle future healthcare challenges successfully.

Our teams are connected and collaborative: We create genuine partnerships with authentic connections with our colleagues, students, and industry. There was also collaboration with 19 health service partners and placement providers, and advocacy for nursing and midwifery with active representation across more than 60 government and professional organisations, steering committees and boards.

Our research informs education and health: Our researchers are at the forefront of advancing the human condition, applying evidence‑based insights to drive innovation for the benefit of our students, colleagues, and those receiving healthcare. Over the past year, staff engaged in a broad spectrum of research, spanning women’s and maternal health, aged care, cancer care, climate change and sustainable healthcare, infection prevention and control, medication safety, healthcare workforce, and numerous other critical areas. We invested in research that had an impact for the community, including leading the review of the Registered nurse standards for practice on behalf of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra). Programs were also introduced to better support nurses and midwives enrolling in PhDs, and we now have more than 40 people enrolled in our PhD program, building the nursing and midwifery research workforce of the future.

Our education is authentic: Health starts with us educating nurses and midwives, the cornerstone of the health system and future health workforce. Underpinned by our education strategy, we use evidence and real-world experiences to prepare students and graduates for lifelong learning. We continued to develop novel ways to support students to apply their learning. In addition to learning in the clinical setting, students benefited from hours of simulation, escape rooms, virtual and augmented reality, and much more.

I hope you enjoy reading our 2025 Annual Review.

Professor Julia Morphet

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