Rate My Professor Elysse Prussing

Dr Elysse Prussing is an early career research midwife and academic in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle. She earned her Bachelor of Midwifery with distinction in 2015, followed by a Class 1 Honours degree in 2016, for which she received the University of Newcastle medal and the Faculty of Health and Medicine medal. Prussing completed her PhD in midwifery at the same institution, investigating factors influencing the implementation of midwifery continuity of care models in regional areas. Since 2017, she has worked as a midwifery academic at the University of Newcastle, serving as Lecturer in Midwifery at the Manning Education Centre and Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Midwifery. She maintains clinical currency as a practising midwife in Port Macquarie.

Prussing's research specializations encompass clinical midwifery and community and primary care, with a particular focus on midwifery continuity of care models. Her PhD findings have directly contributed to the establishment of new midwifery-led services in the Mid North Coast region, enhancing access to woman-centred care and demonstrating improved birth outcomes. She has collaborated with researchers from the University of Newcastle, Southern Cross University, and Charles Darwin University, as well as policymakers from the Agency for Clinical Innovation and NSW Health. Prussing has presented her work at the Australian College of Midwives national conference and to state-wide communities of practice. Her key publications include "Implementing midwifery continuity of care models in regional Australia: A constructivist grounded theory study" (Women and Birth, 2023), "Everyone should have their own midwife: Women's and staff experiences during the implementation of two midwifery continuity of care models in regional Australia" (Women and Birth, 2024), "The Value of Constructivist Grounded Theory in Advocating for Unheard Voices in Contemporary Maternity Research" (International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2024), and several co-authored articles in 2025 on midwifery antenatal and postnatal services and quality maternal care frameworks. Additionally, she co-supervised a PhD completion in nursing in 2024.