Mrs Elisabeth Jacob - Researcher Profile

Biography

Elisabeth has been employed at Monash University since 2008 and works in the School of Nursing and Midwifery Gippsland, as a Lecturer. She is currently responsible for running the satellite registered nursing program at the East Gippsland Regional Clinical School at Bairnsdale. Prior to commencing at Monash Elisabeth worked for over 20 years in the nursing workforce in positions such as Nurse Unit Manager (medical ward), PostGraduate Educator (Intensive Care) and Graduate Nurse Coordinator. She has a keen interest in the changes in the Australian nursing workforce and is currently completing her PhD in the similarities and differences in the education and graduate roles of registered and enrolled nurses. She is also interested in research in the areas of interprofessional practice, clinical placement, social inclusion, rural practice and skill development.

Keywords

Nurse Practitioner, Nurse patient ratios, Nursing, Nursing Education, Nursing workloads, advanced nursing; autonomy; rural nursing; scope of practice , clinical education, student placements, collaboration, learning community, rural nursing, clinical education; interprofessional learning; students.

Qualifications

MASTER EDUCATION

Institution: Charles Sturt University

Year awarded: 2007

POST GRAD DIP CRITICAL CARE (NURSING)

Institution: Deakin University

Year awarded: 1998

DIPLOMA APPLIED SCIENCE (NURSING)

Institution: Avondale College/Sydney Adventist Hospital

Year awarded: 1989

Publications

Book Chapters

Francis, K., Jacob, E., 2011, Rural nursing in the Australian context, in The Rural Nurse: Transition to Practice, eds Deana Molinari and Angeline Bushy, Springer, New York USA, pp. 95-108.

Journal Articles

Jacob, E.R., Barnett, T., Missen, K.L., Cross, D.M., Walker, L.E., 2012, Australian clinician's views on interprofessional education for students in the rural clinical setting, Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education [E], vol 2, issue 2, Simon Fraser University * Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing Press (CCSP), Canada, pp. 219-229.

Jacob, E.R., Sellick, K.J., McKenna, L.G., 2012, Australian registered and enrolled nurses: is there a difference?, International journal of nursing practice [E], vol 18, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 303-307.

Barnett, T., Walker, L., Jacob, E., Missen, K., Cross, D.M., Shahwan-Akl, L., 2012, Expanding the clinical placement capacity of rural hospitals in Australia: displacing Peta to place Paul?, Nurse Education Today [P], vol 32, issue 5, Churchill Livingstone, United Kingdom, pp. 485-489.

Missen, K., Jacob, E., barnett, t., Walker, L., Cross, D.M., 2012, Interprofessional clinical education: clinicians' views on the importance of leadership, Collegian: Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia [P], vol 19, issue 4, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 189-195.

Cant, R., Birks, M., Porter, J., Jacob, E., Cooper, S., 2011, Developing advanced rural nursing practice: A whole new scope of responsibility, Collegian: Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia [P], vol 18, issue 4, Elsevier BV, Netherlands, pp. 177-182.

Jacob, E., Chapman, Y., Birks, M., Al-Motlaq, M., 2011, Entry criteria versus success in undergraduate nursing courses, Journal of Institutional Research [E], vol 16, issue 2, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 54-62.

Barnett, T., Cross, M., Shahwan-Akl, L., Jacob, E., 2010, The evaluation of a successful collaborative education model to expand student clinical placements, Nurse Education in Practice [P], vol 10, issue 1, Elsevier, United Kingdom, pp. 17-21.

Barnett, A.P., Cross, D.M., Jacob, E.R., Shahwan-Akl, L., Welch, A., Caldwell, A., Berry, R.M., 2008, Building capacity for the clinical placement of nursing students, Collegian, vol 15, issue 2, Elsevier, Australia, pp. 55-61.