Assoc Prof Bill Goodin

Assoc Prof Dr Bill Goodin RN DipRM BA (Soc. Sci) MCH PhD (Flinders) Associate Dean Email: wgoodin@nd.edu.au Phone: 02 8204 4287

I trained as a psychiatric nurse in the vintage era of large-scale psychiatric hospitals but happily became involved in the early days of de-institutionalisation and community care. This broader approach led me to undertake general nurse training. This progression and an enduring interest in mental health resulted in my helping in the foundation development of liaison–consultation mental health nursing services in general hospital settings. As a further development, I was appointed to a State–wide (New South Wales) position in liaison–consultation nursing specific to alcohol, tobacco and other drug–related problems. I have been a working as a nurse academic since the transition from hospital training to tertiary education in the early 1980’s.

My teaching experience has encompassed working with undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. I have maintained a strong clinical and research interest in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug-related harm and have made community contributions through long term directorships on management boards of both government and non-government treatment agencies and has acted as consultant on a range of alcohol tobacco and other drug research and education projects both within nursing and across health and welfare disciplines. My research in the Masters of Community Health focused on the effects of clinical supervision on nurses’ models of belief for ATOD-related problems and my doctoral studies investigated a population (n = 1281) of registered nurses and their clinical responses to alcohol, tobacco and other drug affected individuals.