Celebrating NAIDOC Week 2023
The Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (Australia and New Zealand) was delighted to celebrate this NAIDOC Week with an interview with Prof Donna Hartz, Clinical Chair in Midwifery and Professor of Midwifery at Western Sydney University.
About the Interviewee
Professor Donna Hartz
Donna Hartz is midwife and nurse with over 40 years’ experience as a clinician, educator, lecturer, manager, consultant and researcher. She identifies as a descendent of the Kamilaroi (Gomeroi) people. She is a newly appointed Professor of Midwifery at Western Sydney University and the inaugural Chair of Midwifery for Western Sydney Local Health District.
She holds adjunct positions at Charles Darwin University and the University of Newcastle and is Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives.
Donna has extensive experience in maternity care and service redesign, in particular caseload midwifery models of care and maternity service clinical governance. Her current major research projects include Birthing on Country projects, Aboriginal breastfeeding support, child protection education, and smoking cessation in pregnancy.
About the Interviewer
A/Prof Gina Kruger
Associate Professor Gina Kruger is a member of the CDNM's Midwifery Advisory Group. She is a registered nurse-midwife who is Deputy Head of Programs for Nursing and Midwifery at Victoria University in Melbourne, Victoria. Her research projects broadly focus on how to best support nurse-midwives practising in busy hospital workplaces, and, evaluating midwifery and nursing students experiences of undergraduate education to improve their learning and understanding of being a nurse-midwife.
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