Linda Jones

Midwifery

Associate Professor Linda Jones

RN, RM, BApSc(Nsg), GradDipEd(Nsg), MNA, PhD

Associate Professor of Midwifery
Wagga Wagga

Linda began her nursing career at Cumberland College of Health Sciences (now Sydney University) in 1976 before undertaking midwifery education at Bankstown Hospital in 1979, working as a midwife at Westmead Hospital before becoming a clinical educator and then academic in various universities across NSW, Victoria and Tasmania, teaching in both nursing and midwifery. Over the period of her academic career, Linda also worked casually clinically in various roles from clinical midwife to antenatal educator and homebirth midwife as well as undertaking small research projects and then PhD. She also has been actively involved with the Australian College of Midwives being in various roles, currently the Victoria representative on the ACM Council. In addition, Linda has undertaken a number of education consultancies/workshops through ACM across NSW, voluntary clinical and teaching in Cambodia and currently Bangladesh as well as organised an exchange fellowship with midwives from Thailand and Malaysia. Linda’s current role focus on preparing postgraduate nurses to be midwives and advanced nursing practice roles as well as health practitioners in management and leadership and working with PhD candidates.

Linda’s teaching experience has been wide and varied at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and across nursing and midwifery as well as chiropractic, Chinese Medicine and pharmacy and in various settings, countries and class sizes. In addition, Linda has coordinated at the program and course/subject level in various disciplines, mainly nursing and midwifery. She also has had extensive experience in curriculum design and implementation in consultation and collaboration with key stakeholders as well as being on various accreditation committees reviewing curricula. Linda has also mentored and supported the professional development of colleagues in teaching, research, administration of courses/subject, conferences presentations and publications.

Linda’s research interest are as follows:

  • Continuity of carer midwifery models
  • Midwifery care
  • Care of childbearing women post serious illness
  • Organisational change
  • Action research
  • Soft systems methodology
  • Curriculum development
  • Childbearing and intellectual disability
  • Integrating academic integrity
  • Clinical teaching
  • Nurse taster
  • Preconceptual care
  • Burnout
  • End of life care

PhD candidates supervised to completion:

  • Mum’s the word: exploring early motherhood 2012;
  • Examining family members and nurses attitudes and beliefs   towards family presence in Saudi emergency departments (second supervisor)   2013;
  • Examining barriers and facilitators to effective nurse   patient communication within a Saudi Arabic cultural context (second   supervisor) 2014;
  • The perceived impact of the changes to National   Registration and service provision on the Victorian Maternal and Child Health   Nurses 2014;
  • Examining knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding   pain management in oncology nurses in Saudi Arabian hospitals 2014;
  • Psychophysiological and metabolic changes with different   yoga practice 2014;
  • Resilience of Saudi Families with Chronically ill   children 2015;
  • Nurses attitudes knowledge and beliefs towards   individuals who deliberately self-injure 2014;
  • Understanding pregnant teenagers' antenatal care needs in   Tasmania: A socio-ecological determinants of health perspective 2016;
  • Exploring influences impacting on Taiwanese women’s   decision to have children: Implications for nurses and midwives 2016;
  • Barriers to and facilitators of research utilisation   among nurses in Saudi 2017;
  • Evaluation of self management of Type II diabetes program   in Saudi 2017;
  • Nursing leadership in the Eastern Province of Saudi   Arabia 2018;
  • Barriers and enablers to women’s access to services   during childbearing in Timor Leste 2019;
  • Improving the engagement of Aboriginal families in MCH   services: towards a new model of care 2019;
  • Australian home care quality: a political tango 2020;

Fellow Australian College of Midwives

Fellow Australian College of Nursing