Nicole was awarded a post graduate qualification in critical care nursing in 2000 and completed a Master of Public Health in 2009. She has a background in critical care nursing in Australia and the Middle East and has had the privilege of participating in humanitarian work in East Africa. Nicole started work at Curtin University in 2010 as a research nurse collecting data in an ICU follow up study. Nicole is now involved in a follow up study of patients who survived to hospital admission after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.