Rate My Professor Elizabeth Emmanuel

Dr Elizabeth Emmanuel serves as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Nursing within the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University, operating across the Gold Coast and Lismore campuses. She earned her BNursing from the University of Calgary, MNursing from Queensland University of Technology, and PhD from Griffith University. Emmanuel brings extensive clinical expertise from years in nursing, midwifery, and mental health practice, spanning national and international settings. Her specialty focuses on perinatal mental and physical health. In her current teaching and research role in the tertiary sector, she contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals through her scholarly activities.

Emmanuel's research specializes in maternal role development during the transition to motherhood, investigating maternal distress and its effects, alongside quality of life, social support, and demographic factors influencing maternal competence from pregnancy to postpartum periods. Her teaching passions include supporting first-year students' transition to tertiary studies, academic writing development, and mentoring. She is deeply involved in higher degree supervision, assessing doctoral, masters, and honours theses employing historical research, mixed methods, and quantitative approaches. Supervised topics encompass vitalism in chiropractic, sense of coherence among pregnant mothers, the biography of D.D. Palmer, protocols for drug-resistant schizophrenia, and adult learning principles. Notable publications include 'Get it Right: Growth Mindset for Beginning Nursing Students' (Nurse Educator, 2020), 'Why should we care about academic integrity in nursing students?' (2021), 'Your success is our goal: an intervention for failing students' (2022), 'Teaching humanity to nursing students: evaluation of an innovative teaching strategy' (2016), 'An Integrative Review of Medication Calculation Assessment Strategies for Student Nurses' (2019), and 'Tone as a health concept: An analysis' (2017). She also engages in community service as a grant reviewer for Gold Coast Health College. Through these endeavors, Emmanuel impacts nursing education, student success strategies, and maternal health research at Southern Cross University.