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Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards 2025 and recipients of the 2026 Premier\u2019s Nursing and Midwifery Scholarships! Winners were announced at a Gala Dinner held at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Friday 2 May 2025.<\/p>\n
See below all of the amazing Flinders graduates who featured as winners and finalists on the night, or checkout the full list of awardees here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Excellence in Aged Care <\/strong><\/p>\n Excellence in Education <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Excellence in Practice \u2013 Aboriginal Nurse\/Midwife (Mary Buckskin Award) <\/p>\n Excellence in Practice \u2013 Early Career Nurse\/Midwife <\/strong><\/p>\n Excellence in Practice \u2013 Nurse Practitioner <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Excellence in Practice \u2013 Midwife <\/p>\n Excellence in Practice \u2013 Registered Nurse <\/p>\n Excellence in Practice \u2013 Team <\/p>\n Excellence in Leadership and Governance <\/p>\n Excellence in Leadership – Emerging Leader <\/p>\n Excellence in Research and Innovation <\/p>\n 2026 Premier\u2019s Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship recipients: Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards 2025 and recipients of the 2026 Premier\u2019s Nursing and Midwifery Scholarships! Winners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/u>Winner:<\/strong>\u00a0Karen Gregory<\/a> (DipNg \u201991, MPallC \u201923), Resthaven Incorporated<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Nursing Midwifery Education Research & Practice Development Department<\/a>, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (Leigh Healey (BNg(PreReg) \u201903), Lecia Semcesen (GradCertClinEd \u201916)),
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Nursing and Midwifery Education Team<\/a>,\u00a0Yorke\u00a0and Northern Local Health Network (Karen Orchard (BNg(PreReg) \u201900))<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Darryle Barnes<\/a> (GradDipNg(MentalHlth) \u201918), Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network
\nFinalist<\/strong>:\u00a0Shanamae\u00a0Davies<\/a> (BMid(Prereg) \u201917), Southern Adelaide Local Health Network<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Kiana Applebee<\/a> (BNg(PreReg) \u201924), Eyre and Far North Local Health Network<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Finalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Toni\u00a0Slotness-O\u2019Brien<\/a> (GradCertHlth \u201909, MNg(NPrac) \u201911), University of South Australia<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Finalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Brittany Martin<\/a> (BMid(Prereg) \u201919),\u00a0Barossa\u00a0Hills\u00a0Fleurieu\u00a0Local Health Network<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Finalist:\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>Dr Anita\u00a0Lymn<\/a> (BNg(PostReg) \u201997, PhD \u201924), Southern Adelaide Local Health Network<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Closer to Home: Clinical Placement Collaborative 2024 Proof of Concept Pilot Project<\/a>, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (Adjunct Assoc Prof Vanessa Owen \u2013 CNHS Academic Status)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/strong>SA\u00a0Tuberculosis Team<\/a>\u00a0, Central Adelaide Local Health Network (Hiu Kwan Wong (BNg(GradEntry) \u201920) Georgina Paterson (GradCertHlth \u201902))
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Northern Area Midwifery Group Practice\u00a0Homebirth\u00a0Program<\/a>, Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (Belinda Northcott (BMid(Prereg) \u201910), Amy Rigano (GradCertMid \u201914))<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Finalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Cara\u00a0Flynn<\/a> (GradCertPublicHlth \u201914), Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Health Network
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Tina Donaldson<\/a> (BNg(PostReg) \u201999), St Andrew\u2019s Hospital<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Kate Maxwell<\/a> (BMid(Prereg) \u201911), Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Sirirat\u00a0Wiriyakiat<\/a> (BNg(GradEntry) \u201909), Northern Adelaide Local Health Network<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Winner:\u00a0<\/strong>Professor Marion Eckert<\/a> (DipNg \u201991)\u2013 University of South Australia \u2013 Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Aileen\u00a0Collier<\/a>,\u00a0Flinders\u00a0University & Northern Adelaide Local Health Network \u2013 staff not alumni
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr Lauren Lines<\/a> (MNg(Cwk) \u201915, PhD(Ng\/Midwif) \u201920),\u00a0Flinders\u00a0University<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/strong>Jessica\u00a0Walkley (GradCertHlth \u201910, MNg(Cwk) \u201914), SAAS\u00a0MedSTAR
\nPaula\u00a0Medway (BMid(Hons) \u201920),\u00a0DHW
\n<\/strong>Sally Neumann (MHlthAdmin \u201914), LCLHN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"