Ms Ingrid Brooks - Researcher Profile

Biography

Ingrid has an extensive background in emergency nursing as a senior clinician and educator.  She came to the School of Nursing and Midwifery in 2012, after pursuing her interest in paramedic education in the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice (DCEHPP).  Whilst at DCEHPP she built on her previous nursing education experience to provide overall coordination of postgraduate coursework programs, including the direct supervision of postgraduate program academic and administrative staff and students. She also obtained extensive experience in the development and review of undergraduate and postgraduate paramedic curricula.

Ingrid’s research interests include curriculum development, trauma management, emergency preparedness and disaster health and pandemic influenza. As part of an NHMRC grant, she developed a theoretical population-based triage tool to augment existing ambulance triage systems. She was also the project manager of a Victorian Trauma Foundation (VTF) Trauma Education Grant awarded to the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses and College of Emergency Nursing Australasia for the development of the multi-modal Trauma Nursing Program (TNP) educational series for emergency, intensive care, ward and rural nurses. 

Qualifications

MASTER OF EMERGENCY HEALTH

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2009

GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1996

BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE (ADVANCED NURSING)

Institution: LaTrobe University

Year awarded: 1984

CERTIFICATE IN MIDWIFERY

Institution: Royal Women's Hospital

Year awarded: 1978

REGISTERED NURSE

Institution: Alfred Hospital

Year awarded: 1977

Publications

Journal Articles

Bielajs, I., Burkle Jnr., F.M., Archer, F.L., Smith, E., 2008, Development of prehospital, population-based triage-management protocols for pandemics., Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, vol 23, issue 5, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, USA, pp. 420-430.

Conference Proceedings

Bielajs, I., Burkle Jnr., F.M., Kelly, H.A., Coory, M., Tippett, V., Jamrozik, K., Grant, C., Morgans, A.E., Watt, K., Raven, S., 2007, Ambulance calltaking and dispatch data: new approaches to population based infectious disease surveillance and triage., Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (Australian Prehospital Emergency Health Research Forum Peer-Reviewed Abstracts from the ACAP 2007 International Conference), 26/09/2007 to 29/09/2007, Monash University, Melbourne VIC Australia, p. 1.

Coory, M., Kelly, H.A., Tippett, V., Archer, F.L., Bielajs, I., 2007, Ambulance dispatch data generate appropriate seasonal alerts for the surveillance of influenza-like illness, Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (Australian Prehospital Emergency Health Research Forum Peer-Reviewed Abstracts from the ACAP 2007 International Conference), 26/09/2007 to 29/09/2007, Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care, Melbourne VIC Australia, p. 1.

Other

Archer, F.L., Spencer, C., McArdle, D., Brooks, I.A., 2011, Towards a more disaster resilient and safer Victoria, Monash University, Australia, pp. 1-38.

McArdle, D., Archer, F.L., Burkle, F.S., Smith, E., Spencer, C., Brooks (Bielajs), I.A., 2010, Consultation paper for a national disaster resilience strategy: Questionnaire, The University has initiated a University-wide Collaborative Network for Disaster Resilience and Community Safety to harness the breadth of the University's expertise to be applied in the field of disaster resilience and community safety., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Grants

Title:

Avian Influenza - National perception of risks to paramedics and innovation ambulence service population-based models of surveillance and triage.

Investigators:

Tippett, V, Jamrozik, K, Archer, F, Burkle, F, Kelly, H, Brooks, I

Funding:

(2006 - 2011). National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC).