Jacqueline is a Nurse Practitioner working within the Geriatric Consult Liaison Team at London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital. She has a mix of experiences within the geriatric, palliative care and wound care specialties. During her career, Jacqueline has worked both in the community and hospital settings as a visiting nurse on a palliative care specialty team and later as a Palliative Care Program Coordinator. As change in the health care system occurred, Jacquelinr became known at Uinversity Hospital as an Advanced Practice Nurse/Wound care Specialist on the Acute Medical Unit, and held that position for 5 years before transitioning to become an NP on the Geriatric Consult Liasion Team.
Education
• Nurse Practitioner - Adult; University of Toronto, 2008
• IIWCC (International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course) 2006.
• MScN, University of Windsor, 2004
• RNAO Leadership Fellowship 2004-Palliative Care
• Certificate of Palliative Care & Thanatology, University of Western Ontario, 1999
• BScN, University of Western Ontario, 1993
• Diploma in Writing for Children and Teenagers, Institute of Children's Literature, 1993
• Diploma in Nursing, Fanshawe College, 1982
Academic Affiliations
Jacqueline is an instructor within the King's University College Thanatology Program. She is also a Clinical Associate within the UWO Faculty of Nursing.
Interests/Research Interests
Jacqueline is interested in areas involving the issue of the transfer of knowledge to practice, and the development and implementation of innovative change initiatives that have research as a component of outcome measurement.
In 2005, Jacqueline wrote a successful proposal for a nursing initiative grant ($100,000) sponsored by the Change Foundation, to implement nursing guidelines for end-of-life care in three long term care facilities. She also functioned as project coordinator for this project. This project will be published in the Journal of Palliative Care, 2011.
Jacqueline has also assisted Dr. Charmaine Jones with a research project regarding an innovative project involving enhancing the palliative care expertise of family physicians utilizing ‘Tele-hospice', an innovative learning method. She is currently working with Dr. Charmaine Jones and Dr. Michael Lock on investigating the usefulness of the Survival Prediction Model and the Palliative Prognostic Index in the palliative population.
Current research interests include such topics as the association of depression near end-of-life in non-cancer patients, the impact of past trauma in life-threatening illness, and the balancing of risk and autonomy when assisting geriatric patients with return-to-home decisions.
Current Activities/Future Plans
In her current role at LHSC, Jacqueline works within a geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry team that provides consultation to enhance the quality of life of geriatric patients. Most frequent requests for consultation include delirium, depression and dementia.
She is also actively teaching within the Thanatology Program at King's Univerist College.
Within LHSC, Jacqueline has been involved in the development of the Falls prevention initiative; a a medication safety inititiative which resultsed in the construction of a new medication room on the medical unit; the coining of the phrase and education related to S.A.F.E.T.Y.; the RNAO Delirium, Dementia and Depression e learning modules; and the development of the in-patient sepsis screening tool.
Jacqueline's future plans include the completion of a PhD in nursing with emphasis on geriatric and end-of-life care. She has been accepted at the University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing.
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