Rate My Professor Vanessa Clothier

Vanessa Clothier serves as Senior Lecturer and Deputy Course Director for the Master of Advanced Nursing and Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, a position she has held since joining the institution in January 2017. Possessing a Bachelor of Nursing (BN), Postgraduate Diploma in Critical Care, Master of Nursing Science (MNSc), and credentials as a Registered Nurse (RN) and Nurse Practitioner (NP), she brings over 26 years of extensive nursing experience spanning remote area nursing, critical care transport, and emergency departments since 1996. Clothier was selected as a Nurse Practitioner candidate in the Victorian Government's inaugural seed funding round in 2004, becoming one of the first 10 endorsed Nurse Practitioners in Victoria. She continues weekly clinical practice as a Nurse Practitioner in Emergency at Monash Health, alongside her longstanding role as Registered Nurse there since 1994. Additionally, she coordinates the Nurse Practitioner stream in the Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing (M6031) and serves as Unit Coordinator and Chief Examiner for units such as NUR5411 Advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning, NUR5218 Advanced clinical decision making, and NUR5600 Nurse Practitioner essentials.