Rate My Professor Hilary Floate

Hilary Floate serves as a Lecturer in Nursing within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University, part of Griffith Health. Based at the Gold Coast Campus in Clinical Sciences 2 (G16) 2.48, she plays a key role in nursing education as convenor for several core undergraduate courses. These include 1807NRS Safe Administration of Medications offered on the Nathan campus, 1809NRS Effective Nursing Practice as an intensive on-campus course at the Gold Coast, and 3804NRS Community Nursing Practice involving mixed-mode on-campus and in-field learning at the Gold Coast. Her teaching contributions extend to programs such as the Bachelor of Nursing, Bachelor of Nursing/Graduate Certificate in Paediatric Nursing, and Diploma of Nursing Science.

Prior to or concurrent with her lecturing position, Hilary Floate was a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. Her doctoral research centered on the effectiveness of large-scale unconditional cash transfer programmes in lower-income and middle-income countries, with a specific focus on pathways leading to nutritional change in households. This work highlights her academic interests in public health interventions and international development evaluation.

Floate's research outputs include the 2019 publication 'Cash transfer programmes in lower-income and middle-income countries: understanding pathways to nutritional change—a realist review protocol' in BMJ Open, co-authored with Geoffrey C. Marks and Jo Durham. In the same year, she co-authored 'Moving on from logical frameworks to find the "missing middle" in international development programmes' in the Journal of Development Effectiveness with Jo Durham and Geoffrey C. Marks, discussing improved approaches to programme evaluation.

As a registered nurse, Hilary Floate contributed a perspective piece to the Australian College of Nursing in 2020 titled 'Perspectives on men who care,' where she observed that men bring a different lens to nursing, demonstrating compassion and caring in a distinct manner from women.