Jackie Lea
Lecturer, School of Health
Qualifications
MN(Hons), BN, RN, JP
Contact
| Email: | jlea2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Pat O'Shane Buidling (C13) 219 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2974 (or +61 2 6773 2974 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3666 |
Jackie Lea is a Lecturer in Nursing in the School of Health at the University of New England. As a registered nurse, Jackie's career has focussed on patient care within medical and surgical areas of clinical practice and the clinical education of student nurses. Jackie has extensive clinical nursing experience within rural and metropolitan health care facilities from New South Wales and Western Australia and has provided clinical education to undergraduate nursing students from the University of New England, NSW and to nursing students from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
Jackie has a Bachelor of Nursing and a Master of Nursing (Hons) from the University of New England. Jackie currently is a PhD Candidate at the University of Canberra.
Areas of Teaching
Jackie's teaching interests are in clinical nursing practice and patient care, work place learning and clinical education. She lectures to students in the pre-registration and the post graduate programs and is the unit coordinator for:
| HSNS201 | Nursing Practice Development I |
| HSNS204 | Clinical Enquiry in Nursing |
| HSNS323 | Professional Issues in Nursing 2 |
| HSNS427 | Preceptorship in Health Care Settings |
| HSNS434 | Strategies and Techniques for the Clinical Educator |
Research interests
- New Graduate Nurses
- Rural Nursing Practice
- Recruitment and Retention Issues in Nursing
- Undergraduate clinical nursing education
Publications
Book Chapters
Lea, J. & Sanderson, H. P. 2011 ‘Nursing Care of Clients with Haematologic Disorders’ in LeMone and Bourke’s Medical-Surgical Nursing, eds P. LeMone , K. Bourke, Pearson Education, Sydney.
Paliadelis, P., Parmenter, G. & Lea, J. 2010 ‘Disseminating Research’ in Understanding Nursing Research: Methods for Evidence-based Practice, eds S. Jirojwong, M. Johnson & A. Welch, Oxford University Press, Sydney.
Journal articles
Lea. J., Cruickshank, M., Paliadelis, P., Parmenter, G., Sanderson, H. & Thornberry, P. 2008, 'The lure of the bush: Do rural placements influence student nurses to seek employment in rural settings?’ Collegian, vol.15, no. 2, pp.77-82.
Lea, J., Cruickshank M.T. 2007, The experience of new graduate nurses in rural practice in New South Wales. Rural and Remote Health 7 (online), 2007: 814. Available from: http://www.rrh.org.au
Lea, J. & Cruickshank, M.T., 2005, 'Factors that influence the recruitment and retention of graduate nurses in rural healthcare facilities, The Collegian, vol.12, no. 2, pp.22–27.
Lea, J. 2003, the experience of new graduate nurses in rural practice: A phenomenological study, Masters thesis, University of New England.
International Conference Presentations
Wilson, R., Cruickshank, M, & Lea, J. 2012, Experiences of Families who help young rural men with emergent mental health problems in rural community in New south Wales, Australia, Contemporary Nurse. 42.2 (Oct 2012):p167.
Sanderson, H, & Lea, J. 2012 Implementation of the Clinical Facilitation Model within an Australian rural setting: the role of the clinical facilitator. Nurse Education in Practice, in Press.
Lea, J. & Cruickshank, M. 2012, Support for the rural new graduate nurse in Australia: An investigation to identify the level and nature of support for new graduate nurses making the role transition in rural nursing practice. 4th International Nurse Education Conference 17-20 June 2012, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Paliadelis, P., Stupans, I., Turner, L., Puxty, M Fagan, A. & Lea, J. All together now! – An exploration of the value of a simulated interprofessional learning program for rural health students. SimHealth 10-13th September 2012 Sydney Australia.
Paliadelis, P., Stupans, I., Turner, L., Puxty, M Fagan, A. & Lea, J. &. 2012 All together now! – An exploration of the value of a simulated interprofessional learning program for a range of rural health students. Jefferson InterProfessional Education Centre Conference 18-19 May Philadelphia, USA.
Paliadelis, P., Stupans, I., Turner, L., Puxty, M Fagan, A. & Lea, J. &. 2012 ‘Students, faculty and local community health professionals learning together’, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), Hobart, Tasmania, July. (Full paper [5000 words] published.
Sanderson, H., Lea. J, Wilson, R. 2010, ‘An evaluation of Clinical Education within a rural undergraduate nursing Curriculum: Insights into the clinical Facilitation model’ NETPET 2010 3rd International Education Conference: Continuing education in a global community: Collaboration and networking for the future, Sydney Australia 11-14th April 2010.
Sanderson, H., Lea, J., Wilson, R. 2010, ‘An evaluation of Clinical Education within a rural undergraduate nursing Curriculum: Insights into the clinical Facilitation model’. International Clinical Research Conference Knowledge to action Research in Nursing in the 21st Century, Ottawa, Canada 14-16th June 2010.
Sanderson, H., Lea, J., Wilson, R. 2010, ‘An evaluation of Clinical Education within a rural undergraduate nursing Curriculum: Insights into the clinical Facilitation model’. NET 2010, 21st International Networking Education in Health Care Conference Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge UK 7-9th September 2010.
Lea, J, Sanderson, H, Wilson, R. 2010, ‘An Evaluation of Clinical Education within a Rural Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum: Insights into the Clinical Facilitation Model’. Sigma Theta Tau 21st International Nursing Research Congress Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA 12th – 16th July 2010.
Lea, J. 2007 New graduate nurses in rural practice settings: The perspective of the experienced rural Registered Nurse. Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society of Nursing, “Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: Paradigms and Dialogue” – Hong Kong 19th-21st April 2007.
Lea, J., Cruickshank, M., Paliadelis, P., Parmenter, G., Sanderson, H., and Thornberry, P. The lure of the bush: Do rural placements influence student nurses to seek employment in rural settings? Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society of Nursing, “Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: Paradigms and Dialogue” – Hong Kong 19th-21st April 2007.
Lea, J. 2004, The experience of new graduates in rural practice, Sigma Theta Tau 15th International Nursing Research Congress, Ireland, July.
Lea, J. 2002, From the Unit To The Frontline: The new graduate nurses lived experience of transition into rural practice settings, The 8th International Qualitative Health Research Conference, Banff, Canada, April.
Thornberry, P., McParlane, J., Lea, J. & Sanderson, H. 2002, The challenges for enrolled nurses undertaking a distance education degree program in Rural Australia, 13th Annual International Participative Conference for Education in Health Care, University of Durham, England, September 3-5.
National Conference Presentations
Lea, J., Thornberry, P. Kiely, K, 2012 Ideology to reality: the effectiveness of a graduate nurse transition program in easing the role transition for newly graduated nurses in the Private Health System in NSW, Australia. 14th National Nurse Education Conference, Perth Western Australia 11-13 April 2012.
Lea, J., Cruickshank, M., Paliadelis, P., Parmenter, G., Sanderson, H., and Thornberry, P. The lure of the bush: Do rural placements influence student nurses to seek employment in rural settings? 12th National Nurse Education Conference " Capital Issues in Education". Australian Nurse Teachers' Society Conference, Canberra, 14 - 16 September 2006.
Lea, J. 2003, The experience of new graduate nurses in rural practice, 11th Australian Association for Rural Nurses (AARN) National conference in conjunction with the 21st National Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia (CRANA) conference, Katoomba, September.
Lea, J. 2002, The new graduate nurses lived experience of transition into rural practice settings, The Royal College of Nursing and The Association for Australian Rural Nurses Inc., 10th conference, Sydney, February.
Recent Research Projects and Grants
| 2011 | Support for the rural new graduate nurse: An investigation to identify the level and nature of support for new graduate nurses making the role transition in rural nursing practice | School of Health Research Grant |
| 2009 | A collaborative study between the University of New England and Ramsay Health Care Australia to explore the effectiveness of the Ramsay Health Care Graduate Nurse Transition Program (Gradplus) in easing the role transition for newly graduated nurses | Ramsay Health Care $10,000 |
| 2008 | An evaluation of the clinical education model within UNE's undergraduate nursing curriculum | Funded by UNE Internal Research Grant– $4000 |
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2005
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Collaborative study to identiify recruitment and retention barriers for graduate nurses in rural Northern NSW |
Funded by UNE Internal Research Grant– $5000 |
| 2005 | An investigation of the impact rural clinical placement has on career intentions of final nursing year students at UNE | Funded by UNE Faculty Research Grant–$11,000 |