Rate My Professor Jacqui Peet

Dr Jacqui Peet is a Lecturer in Nursing in the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She holds a PhD in Nursing and a Bachelor of Nursing, both from Queensland University of Technology. As a registered nurse, she has clinical experience in intensive care units, operating theatres, central sterile services departments, and acute care wards. Peet has five years of experience in academia, serving as a senior research assistant, course coordinator, and sessional lecturer for undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her doctoral work focused on developing safety cultures in acute care settings through collaboration with frontline nurses to enhance patient safety and care experience. This research established her expertise in supporting patient safety cultures by aligning with clinicians' values and innovations in ward-based patient assessment.

Peet's research specializations include emancipatory practice development, nursing surveillance, patient assessment, and patient deterioration. She employs qualitative research methods in the critical paradigm to drive person-centred cultural change through skilled facilitation, critical reflection, and action learning. She is a member of the International Practice Development Collaboration, Australian College of Nursing, and Sigma Theta Tau International (phi delta chapter), and served as an invited external facilitator for the International Practice Development School in Sydney in March 2022. Her awards include the Sister Margaret Y Winning Scholarship in 2017 ($10,000) and a Queensland University of Technology Health Research Scholarship ($28,000 per annum for two years). She is a recipient of an international AdvanceHE Fellowship. Peet teaches HLT 103 Professional Health Communication and NUR 241 Contexts of Practice: Health Alteration. Key publications comprise 'A facilitator's reflection on the democratizing potential of participatory action research' (Nursing Philosophy, 2024), 'Assessment moderation in higher education: Guiding practice for equity and transparency' (2025), and 'ICU exit block: A comparative analysis of discharge processes in Australian ICUs' (Australian Critical Care, 2024), alongside conference presentations on theory-informed practice change and colonisation of theory in nursing curricula. As an early career nurse researcher, she advances local health services research.