Rate My Professor Elizabeth Emmanuel

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.