Jo-Anne Martin | Master of Health Science

I live a life less ordinary. My name's Joanne Martin, I currently work at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Victoria and I am currently the Postgraduate Nursing Program Coordinator for that organisation. The Royal Melbourne Hospital where I work has an affiliation with ACU. We run our postgraduate program through ACU, the program that I help facilitate. The opportunities that I've been afforded by doing my Masters through ACU is that it's given me the opportunity to actually put what I've learnt into practice, not just at my usual occupation, my normal job, but also it's allowed me to do sessional teaching with ACU and it's also allowed me to use that in conjunction with my passion of oncology nursing. I love the patients. I think that they teach me so much about not just about being a nurse but also about being a person. I think that they make me a better person because I can see what they're going through and they just want to, they've got a spirit to them that just wants to get up and go and survive and so forth and that can teach us, I think, so much. And if they can, if I can even help them remotely, you know, spend five more minutes, a half an hour, a couple of months with their families to say what they need to say to them, then I think I've done my job.