Jacqueline Jones PhD RN FAAN
Assistant Dean PhD Programs
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303 724 2929
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University of Colorado College of Nursing
Anschutz Medical Campus
Veteran & Military Health Care Leadership
MS Nursing May 2023, DNP Student Graduates Dec 2024
VMHC Course Descriptions
Personally Speaking
I am a Global Citizen and began my journey in nursing as an 18-year-old Nursing Assistant in a large psychiatric hospital while I waited to start my RN program with the wonderful NHS in England. I grew up hearing stories about WWII from my grandparents, the rations, the Blitz, serving Country, parachute silk for a wedding dress, and the stresses of being a wife with a child alone while Grandad was overseas. I also heard from him about trying to help people at the end of the War, sharing food rations with people he found, and the struggles they had to even eat. Grandad was sharing his experience in the Army of arriving at Bergen-Belsen and the horror of that experience. Even as a small child, with kind words I could see his pain, his ongoing suffering and the way Being a Soldier had changed him. My Great-Grandfather was a POW in WWI, he suffered leg trauma from serving in the trenches. Their stories have stayed with me.
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I have two daughters (26,30) who were born in Australia and who moved with me to Colorado 15 years ago. I understand the PCS (permanent change of duty station) world and the challenges associated with being a military family. My husband and I live with our three dogs in the mountains in Colorado. That's Lucy on the front page! I love hiking, my Peloton bike (#JJUCD), and being amongst nature every day. I am a Caritas Coach and my personal philosophy of nursing aligns with the intrinsic worth of each human being journeying and learning, healing and becoming, together. I am so excited to learn alongside you in whatever way works for you and am honored to hear your life stories. Yoga keeps me calm and connected to my body, Namaste :)
Professional Biosketch.
Curriculum Vitae 2024
​Jacqueline Jones PhD RN FAAN graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing from Flinders University, Australia after completing her Registered Nurse education under the NHS system in the UK. As a clinical leader in emergency and critical care nursing she completed her PhD in 1998, ‘Emergency nursing and caring, a rhetoric or reality of practice?’. Following a substantial clinical nurse scientist (Australia), rural and remote Nurse Educator (Australia), and tenured academic/research career (Colorado) she was inspired by homeless veterans as she learned of their intense suffering. She subsequently completed a Master of Nursing Veteran & Military Health Care Leadership to better advocate for post 9/11 veterans’ health care. In December 2024 she is graduating with a Doctor of Nursing Practice Veteran & Military Health Care Leadership. In addition to her role as Assistant Dean of the PhD programs at the College of Nursing, Jacqueline is a Veteran Military Health Leader on Anschutz Medical Campus spearheading campus reform of suicide prevention in higher education using trauma-informed, health equity and social determinants of health strategies. Her DNP project, ‘Enhancing Sense of Belonging as a Suicide Prevention Strategy for Health Profession Student Veterans’ is a first step in sustainable change. Fueled by her passion for rural and medically underserved communities where she lives Jacqueline plans to continue to serve the mental health needs of veterans by developing her own private practice
August 2008 - Current
June 2004 - June 2008
January 2001 - June 2004
I am a Tenured Full Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, Anschutz Medical Campus. I have built on my research work with Veterans across the US VA systems and community partnerships. From end-of-life care for homeless veterans to choice and decision-making for those with chronic illness across care transitions. I have championed person-centered systems design through qualitative research and mixed methods and advocated for all 55 and older adults with cognitive impairment and their care partners who work tirelessly in their lives to be seen and heard. #CUNursing, #StrongerTogether
Prince Charles Hospital Director of Research and Practice Development Australia for the largest health district in Queensland, Australia. I developed the Practice Partnership Model of Nursing that maximized recruitment and retention of nurses through enhanced nursing surveillance, full scope of practice, and transdisciplinary communication putting the person at the heart of their care within acute and community settings including TBI units.
Joint Appointment Australian Nursing Federation & Flinders University Adelaide was the first of its kind in Australia. I influenced the development of the Nurse Practitioner movement and was part of legislative change and prescribing authority for Nurse Practitioners in South Australia. I also influenced state policies to protect nurses against violence in nursing derived from my dissertation and post-doctoral research.
January 1991 - January 2001
Clinical Nurse Emergency Department, Rural and Remote Nurse Educator, and University of South Australia Faculty. During this time I built on my clinical career as a CCRN in the UK and later as a CEN to educate nurses in rural Australia.
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