Staff profile

Dr Jacqui Richmond

Research Fellow - Hepatitis Program

Faculty of Health Sciences

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society

Melbourne (City)

 

Qualifications

PhD, MPH, RN

Membership of professional Associations

Australasian Hepatology Association, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease

Brief Profile

Jacqui Richmond commenced working as a hepatology nurse in 1998 at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. She completed a PhD in 2006. Jacqui undertook postdoctoral research at Duke University in North Carolina, working with Professor John McHutchison.

Jacqui has worked on several national consultancy projects including writing the 3rd National Hepatitis C Strategy 2010-2013, researching and developing the Australasian Hepatology Association (AHA) Consensus-based Nursing Guidelines for the Care of Patients with Liver Disease (2012); the AHA Competency Standards for the Hepatology Nurse (2008); and the National Hepatitis C Needs Assessment (2008).  

Jacqui is currently working part time as a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society. Her current projects include: C the Difference - Hepatology Nursing in the era of expanding hepatitis C evidence and the Hepatitis B Patient and Clinical Practice Survey.  

Jacqui also works as a Clinical Nurse Consultant (Hepatitis B) at Melbourne Health and is responsible for establishing an integrated hepatitis B, including developing models of community-based care and a nurse-led service.

 

Recent Publications

Wallace, J., McNally, S., Richmond, J., Hajarizadeh, B. and Pitts, M. (2011). Challenges to the effective delivery of health care to people with chronic hepatitis B in Australia. Sexual Health – 24 August online - http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH10137.

Wallace, J., McNally, S., Richmond, J., Hajarizadeh, B. and Pitts, M. (2011). Managing chronic hepatitis B: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of people living with chronic hepatitis B in Australia. BMC Research Notes, 4(45).  

Bailey, D.E., Barroso, J. Muir, A.J. Sloane, R. Richmond, J.A., McHutchison, J.G., Patel, K., Landerman, L. Mishel, M.H. (2010). Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Undergoing Watchful Waiting: Exploring Trajectories of Illness Uncertainty and Fatigue. Research in Nursing and Health 33(5):465-473.   R

ichmond, J.A., Bailey, D.E., Patel, K., Jezsik, J.A., Muir, A.J., Lin, J-R., Chow, S-C., Uzarski, D. & McHutchison, J.G. (2010). The use of complementary and alternative medicine by patients with chronic hepatitis C.Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 16: 124–131  

Richmond, J.A., Bailey, D.E., Muir, A.J. & McHutchison, J.G. (2010). The use of mind-body medicine and prayer among adult patients with chronic hepatitis C. Gastroenterology Nursing 33(3): 210-216.  

Hoy, J. & Richmond J. (2009). Standard precautions and infection control. Healthcare Infection, 14: 27-32.  

Richmond, J.A., Dunning, P. & Desmond, P. V. (2007). Health professionals’ attitudes toward caring for people with hepatitis C. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 14: 624-632.  

Seccull, A., Richmond, J., Thomas, B. & Herrman, H. (2006). Hepatitis C in people with mental illness: how big is the problem and how do we respond? Australasian Psychiatry, 14(4), 374-378.

Research projects

C the Difference - Hepatology Nursing in the era of expanding hepatitis C evidence

Hepatitis B Patient and Clinical Practice Survey