Jo lives in Perth with her husband and 3 children. Jo has worked as registered nurse for 28 years, working Internationally and within remote, rural, and metropolitan Western Australia. With extensive experience in ICU, emergency, cardiology, oncology, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, haematology, trauma, plastics, palliative care, mental health, general medicine and surgery. Jo has also been a Diabetes Educator in the UK and roles in Occupational Health, Safety and Infection Control and an Academic Clinical and Theory University Nursing Tutor and Clinical Facilitator for 17 years and continue to hold current Sessional Academic Roles with Edith Cowan University, Notre Dame and AMA College as a lecturer. Jo remains clinically current as she is still working as Senior RN at Joondalup Health Campus and supervise at RPH for Notre Dame University in acute care (ICU, cardiology, trauma and acute medical unit) and has a position as an IQNM examiner for APHRA examining international nurses.
Jo strives for nursing excellence as she was awarded the Dr Foster and Associate Highest University Academic Performance as well as Dux of her initial Bachelor of Nursing (Comprehensive) Degree. In 2021 and 2022 she was awarded The Clinical Facilitator and Mentor Excellence Award for Nursing at Notre Dame University. This was followed in 2022 by receiving the Vice Chancellery Award for Teaching Excellence at Edith Cowan University.
Jo has just completed her Masters of Medicine in Health Professional Education Degree and my research in simulation was published by the Teaching and Learning in Nursing Journal in May 2023. She concurrently teaches and clinically facilitates at ECU with stage 6 nurses and medical interns from UWA in medical and nursing interprofessional immersive simulation as well as Nursing Law and work across all stages of Undergraduate clinical tutorials.
Jo’s ongoing passion is working with student nurses, developing them to be confident critical thinkers, educated professional role models for the nursing profession and inspire them for lifelong learning.