qualifications: PhD, BSN, MSN, GradCertEd (Tertiary Teaching)
position: Senior Lecturer
department: Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research
Dr Wicking earned her Bachelor's and Masters degrees in her native state of California, before migrating to Australia in 2001 and earning a Graduate Certificate Education (Tertiary Teaching) and a PhD at James Cook University (JCU). Dr Wicking is doubly certified as a coach, through both the International Coach Federation and the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Center. She created the Chronic Condition Coaching Clinic on the JCU Townsville campus in 2016. Kristin was also the Academic Lead: Staff Well-Being for Nursing & Midwifery (N&M), where she used coaching skills to provide wellness coaching and/or professional development coaching to staff. She also uses coaching skills to foster timely completions and high publication rates in her doctoral research students, many of whom are studying chronic conditions and/or other wellness-promotion initiatives.
Original Research 21 June 2024
Women's wellbeing and Niska (goose) Harvesting in subarctic Ontario, Canada
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COVID-19 in endangered Indigenous groups from the Amazonia, Ecuador
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Experiences of rural Australian men with online SMART Recovery mutual-help groups
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Attraction and retention of nurses in rural, remote and isolated locations
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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