Rate My Professor Danielle Noble

Danielle Noble is a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle. She holds a Master of Nursing (Professional Studies) and a Master of Education in Adult Education from the University of Technology Sydney, a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Western Sydney, two Graduate Certificates from the University of Newcastle, and a Certificate IV in Workplace Assessment and Training from NSW Health. With nearly 20 years of nursing experience, she started as an Enrolled Nurse in aged care for four years, advanced to Registered Nurse on an ENT and Vascular ward, and served as Clinical Nurse Educator for the Division of Surgery for five years before transitioning to academia at the University of Newcastle. Her teaching focuses on undergraduate nursing students, simulation, and nursing education.

Her research interests center on nursing students' acquisition of nursing language throughout their Bachelor of Nursing program, effective communication with other healthcare professionals, simulation-based learning, electronic medical records integration in curricula, clinical reasoning, empathy development, interprofessional education, and enhancing student preparedness for practice. Noble has secured grants totaling $80,450, including a $6,000 2018 Strategic Pilot Grant for developing empathy in undergraduate nursing students using a patient communication simulator, a $69,500 HETI grant in 2013 for recruiting clinical facilitators and mentors, and funding for international nursing conferences in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Key publications include chapters such as 'Hygiene' and 'Skin integrity and wound care' in Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery: A Person-Centred Approach to Care (2022 and 2016 editions), 'Pioneering the Australian Academic Electronic Medical Records (AAeMR) Program Prototype to Enhance Nursing Students’ Readiness for Practice: A Cohort Study' (2024), 'Student confidence and knowledge with electronic medical records through on-ward simulation: An evaluation study' (2025), 'Nursing students’ perspectives on being work-ready with electronic medical records' (2024), 'The impact of using an academic electronic medical record program on first-year nursing students’ confidence and skills' (2023), and 'Nursing undergraduates’ perception of preparedness using patient electronic medical records in clinical practice' (2021).