Dr. Treva Job
PhD, BScN, PHCNP, MA Ed, CCSNE, CHSE
Manager, Simulation Centre, Health, Wellness and Sciences
Email: treva.job@georgiancollege.ca
Phone: 249.388.1348
Biography
Dr. Treva Job has been a faculty member at Georgian College since 2013. She’s also a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner (Ontario). Currently, Treva is responsible for creating and driving the strategic vision to integrate simulation into the learning experiences within the programs of Health, Wellness and Sciences portfolios. In her role, she’s responsible for providing leadership in the integration of simulation pedagogy and technology that supports program objectives and curriculum learning outcomes.
Areas of expertise include primary health care, simulation pedagogy, and virtual and immersive simulation. She completed her PhD at University of Toronto, OISE, in 2022 with her dissertation focused on the Nurse Educator’s Application and Implementation of Simulation Pedagogy in the Nursing Curricula.
Treva has presented at multiple conferences and engages in research on topics related to virtual simulation, simulation pedagogy, and nursing curriculum. In addition, she has recently developed a mental health de-escalation virtual reality (headset based) scenarios that will be utilized in the nursing programs in the coming years.
My deep-rooted passion for nursing education comes from my desire to share my cumulative knowledge and encourage life-long learning for our students. I have always been an inquisitive and curious person and I was always seeking to know more about client conditions and how I can assist them to improve with their health outcomes. I believe that nursing is compiled of both art and science. The science is the easy part, as that is what we learn throughout our education. The art is the personal aspect and comes from who you are as a person and what you bring into your practice! These two components are what inspires me to want to teach and help to shape the nurses of our future.
Dr. Treva Job
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Toronto, Toronto ON, 2022
- Master of Arts in Education (MA Ed.), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant MI, USA, 2011
- Nurse Practitioner – Primary Health Care advanced certificate, York University, North York ON, 2005
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN), York University, North York ON, 2004
- Registered Nurse (RN) diploma, Conestoga College, Kitchener ON, 1997
Professional affiliations
- Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO)
- College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
- Nurse Practitioners’ Association of Ontario (NPAO)
- International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL)
- Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH)
Certifications
- 2022 Society for Simulation in Healthcare, Certified Simulation Operation Specialist (CHSOS), Simulation Education
- 2020 Society for Simulation in Healthcare, Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE), Simulation Education
- 2020 Canadian Nurse Educator Institute Simulation Certification Program, Simulation Education
- Extensive knowledge in multiple levels of nursing education
- Certifications related to health care in a variety of different clinical areas
- Ongoing education in curriculum development, inclusive of scholarship and research around this topic area
Research interests
- Virtual reality in health-care education
- Faculty development in simulation pedagogy
- Simulation education
- Immersive simulation
Research projects
- An Educator’s Toolkit for Virtual Simulation Usability Study
- Role: Co-researcher
- OER Embedding Virtual Simulation, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Education: An Educator’s Toolkit
- Research grant (2021)
- Funded by: eCampus Ontario
- Amount funded: $194,600
- Examining Nurse Educator Experiences and Understanding of Simulation Pedagogy within the Practical Nurse Curriculum
- Dissertation research (2016; in progress)
- Involving Practical Nursing and Bachelors of Science Nursing students in an intra-professional educational experience
- Facilitator in research activity (2015)
- Humanitarian trip to Dominican Republic
- Data analysis/statistical analysis (2015)
- Prevalence Study at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care on Wound, Metabolic Syndrome and Palliative Care Clients
- Principal researcher (2014)
- Perceptions of Staff Attitudes Toward E-Learning for Core Education Training Modules
- Master’s thesis (2011)
Featured publications
- Verkuyl, M., Taplay, K., Job, T., O’Keefe-McCarthy, S., Atthill, S., Goldsworthy, S., and Atack, L. (2022). An educator’s toolkit for virtual simulation: A usability study. Nurse Education Today, 119, doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105600
- Verkuyl, M., Goldsworthy, S., Merwin, T., Job, T., Boulet, M., Dubois, N., Weiss, C., Taplay, K., Willett, T. , and the OER Team. (2022). OER Embedding Virtual Simulation, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality in Education: An Educator’s Toolkit. E-Campus Pressbooks.com.