Associate Professor
Jacqueline.Jones@ucdenver.edu
Associate Professor Jacqueline Jones is a registered nurse (RN) in three countries, across three continents (Europe, Australasia, United States), which brings a broad international understanding of nursing issues to her teaching and research interests. She is faculty of the Division of Informatics, Health Services and Leadership (IHSL). Dr Jones teaches PhD doctoral courses in qualitative research and the history and philosophies of science. As a member of the Presidents Teaching and Learning Collaborative she is currently researching doctoral pedagogy that facilitates learning in the formation of nurse scientists and nurse scholars as stewards of the discipline of nursing.
Building from her PhD thesis, Emergency Nursing and Caring: A paradox or reality of practice?, she has a program of research that has two foci 1) nurses and nursing work and 2) older people and health. The latter flows from her post doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Research into Nursing and Healthcare . Both research foci have a strong emphasis on the complexities of the environment which Dr Jones employs multimethod design approaches to knowledge development. She supervises PhD students across these research foci and provides mentorship in the area of qualitative research methodologies and grant writing. Her current research interests are the development and measurement of ‘the nursing dose’ and ‘dose-response’ on outcomes for patient safety, quality and satisfaction; and the symptom of delirium as ‘hospital acquired confusion’ and the role nursing surveillance has in its early detection and intervention for acute hospital patients.
In concert with practicing nurses Dr Jones recently developed ‘The Practice Partnership Model’ of nursing now employed in some Queensland Health sites, Brisbane, Australia. She has a strong commitment to praxis and practice development, and has expertise in evidence based practice and knowledge translation. Her contributions to the discipline of nursing include research that informed the National Review of Nursing Education, a unique joint appointment with the Australian Nursing Federation (SA) and Flinders University, and past Editor of the international research journal Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing.