Rate My Professor Corinne Dunningham

Corinne Dunningham serves as Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator for the Master of Nurse Practitioner program at La Trobe University in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is an endorsed Nurse Practitioner with 16 years of experience in emergency nursing, having qualified as a Nurse Practitioner in 2021. Her clinical work focuses primarily on adult emergency care, including locum positions and virtual emergency care delivery. Dunningham is dedicated to expanding the nurse practitioner workforce in Australia, where she notes there are just over 3,100 practitioners, and she emphasizes the autonomous clinical role that involves seeing, treating, diagnosing, investigating and referring patients after advanced postgraduate education and clinical experience.

In her teaching position, Dunningham brings enthusiasm and a focus on progress over perfection to support students in applying theory to practice. She contributes to research on nurse practitioner services, including co-authorship of the 2025 publication Ten-Year Update of Nurse Practitioner Service Impact on Patient and Health Service Outcomes, which evaluates outcomes such as cost, waiting times and patient satisfaction in emergency and urgent care settings. She also co-authored Establishing an Australian Nurse Practitioner Research Agenda: A National Consensus Study in 2025, which identifies national research priorities for the field. Dunningham is committed to preparing future nurse practitioners to address healthcare needs effectively.