Qualifications
- MSc (University of Bradford)
- PhD / DPhil (University of Bradford)
Summary
Jane Wray is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Hull, and Senior Clinical Nurse Advisor for the National Preceptorship Project. She has an established track record in research, scholarship, teaching and learning and her research interests are in nurse education and professional practice with a focus on supportive and inclusive workplaces. Jane is Deputy Editor for Evidence Based Nursing and Nurse Education in Practice. She is a founding member of the International Advisory Board for the peer reviewed Journal of Intellectual Disabilities (Sage Publications, London) and recently coedited a special edition of Nurse Education in Practice on Learning Diversity. She has published and presented her work nationally and internationally and supervises students in at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
Jane is an active member of several national and international nursing organisations and communities of practice and completed her PhD in 2017 and this explored newly qualified nurses' (NQNs) perceptions of culturally competent practice.
She has been awarded a Fellow Ad Eundem of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (FFNMRCSI) (2022), A Burdett Trust for Nursing 'Nursing Hero' award (2022) and was shortlisted for the Nursing Times Workforce Awards for Preceptorship Team of the Year (2023).
Journal Article
Supported: supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: a qualitative study 2 protocol 3 4
Bayley, Z., Bothma, J., Bravington, A., Forward, C., Hussain, J., Manthorpe, J., …Johnson, M. J. (2023). Supported: supporting, enabling, and sustaining homecare workers to deliver end-of-life care: a qualitative study 2 protocol 3 4. PLoS ONE, 18(12), Article e0291525. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291525
Resources page
Wray, J. (2023). Resources page. Evidence-Based Nursing, 26(4), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103805
Economic evaluation of CPD activities for healthcare professionals: A scoping review
Orlik, W., Aleo, G., Kearns, T., Briody, J., Wray, J., Mahon, P., …Fitzgerald, C. (2022). Economic evaluation of CPD activities for healthcare professionals: A scoping review. Medical Education, https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14813
Research interests
Also see below (PhD topics)
Nursing workforce and education issues: recruitment and retention, supportive and inclusive working environments. Cultural competence, diversity and inclusion and developing the health and social care workforce Her current project (STaR https://starnursehull.com/) is looking at transition and retention in Newly Qualified Nurses (NQNs).
Lead investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
Healthy Mind Healthy You
Funder
NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group
Grant
£20,000.00
Started
1 November 2020
Status
Complete
Project
Hospital 7 day working for the Social work team
Funder
HCC Hull City Council
Grant
£7,508.00
Started
1 October 2020
Status
Complete
Project
Stepping down Project
Funder
Humber Teaching Foundation Trust
Grant
£43,737.00
Started
1 August 2020
Status
Complete
Project
Interchange Scheme
Funder
Pickering and Ferens Homes
Grant
£9,775.00
Started
1 September 2020
Status
Complete
Co-investigator
Project
Funder
Grant
Started
Status
Project
Supporting, enabling and sustaining home care workers to deliver end-of-life care: amultiple-methods community-based case study
Funder
NIHR National Institute for Health Research
Grant
£596,722.00
Started
1 October 2022
Status
Ongoing
Project
Supporting Transition and Retention of newly registered nurses
Funder
Burdett Trust for Nursing
Grant
£183,857.00
Started
5 June 2017
Status
Complete
Postgraduate supervision
Nursing workforce issues: recruitment and retention,
Equality, diversity and Inclusion in nurse education and practice (including Cultural Competence)
Working with carers