Jacqui Peet

Dr Jacqui Peet is a early career nurse researcher, who works at the local levels of health services research. Jacqui holds a Conjoint Senior Research Fellow position at Caboolture, Kilcoy and Woodford Hospitals. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at Redcliffe Hospital and a Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Wollongong. Jacqui's research interest is in patient safety using practice development and participatory methodologies, looking at workplace cultures which are good places to work. This research is important because patient safety is as much about the workplace cultures and systems as it is about checklists and audits.

Jacqui is a registered nurse who has a wealth of clinical experience in acute care settings. She has worked in academia for 8 years as a lecturer, senior research assistant, co-ordinator and sessional for undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her clinical experience established her doctoral work on developing safety cultures in acute care settings. This work was a collaboration with frontline nurses to explore their significant contribution to patient safety and care experience. It has built an understanding of how patient safety cultures can be supported and enhanced by working with clinicians’ values as they innovate to improve patient assessment on their ward.

Jacqui’s research interests in patient safety extend to nursing surveillance, patient assessment, patient deterioration and transformative leadership. Her research work draws on qualitative research particularly in the critical paradigm using emancipatory practice development and critical participatory action research methodologies. She explores critical approaches in achieving person-centred cultural change with individuals and teams using skilled facilitation, critical reflection, and action learning. She is a current member of the International Practice Development Collaboration as well as Australian College of Nursing and a Board member of Sigma Theta Tau Phi Delta at large chapter. She has advanced skilled facilitation and practice development expertise. She is an invited external facilitator of the International Practice Development School, Sydney (March 2022).

Her current publications include four first author publications in Q1 and Q2 journals. She is a peer reviewer for the International Practice Development Journal, Collegian and Teaching an dLearning in Nursing. Her research networks include University of Wollongong, Queensland University of Technology, University of East Anglia (UK), Charité University Hospital, Berlin.