Rate My Professor Jill Wilkinson

Dr. Jill Wilkinson is the Head of Nursing and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health (Te Puna Hauora) at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, within the Faculty of Education, Health, and Psychological Sciences. Possessing over 30 years of experience across the health and education sectors as a registered nurse, clinician, policy advisor, academic, and researcher, she obtained her PhD in Nursing from Massey University in 2007, with a doctoral thesis entitled 'The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic: a discourse analysis.' Her earlier qualifications include a Master's degree from Massey University in 2001, focusing on 'A mantle of protection? A critical analysis of the personal safety of district nurses,' and a Graduate Certificate in Restorative Justice Practice from Victoria University of Wellington in 2020. Wilkinson's career trajectory encompasses significant leadership roles, such as Associate Professor, Associate Head of School, and Postgraduate Programme Director at Massey University's School of Nursing from February 2018 to March 2020; previous Senior Lecturer positions at Massey University; and Research Associate with the Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice at Victoria University of Wellington from 2008 to 2017.

Her research interests center on the development of advanced practice nursing, registered nurse prescribing, nurse practitioners in primary health care, evidence-based nursing practice, and health consumer complaints, including restorative justice applications in healthcare. Key publications feature 'Marking 50 Years of Nurse Education in the Tertiary Sector' (2023), 'Healing after harm: An evaluation of a restorative approach for addressing harm from surgical mesh' (2022), 'Health practitioner experience of Health and Disability Commissioner investigations' (2021), 'Impact of postgraduate education on advanced practice nurse activity—a national survey' (2018), 'Delineating advanced practice nursing in New Zealand: a national survey' (2018), 'RN Prescribing: An Expanded Role for Nursing' (2017), 'Practice nurse use of evidence in clinical practice: a descriptive survey' (2010), and 'Hearing and Responding to the Stories of Survivors of Surgical Mesh: Ngā korero a ngā mōrehu – he urupare' (2019). These works have shaped discourse on expanded nursing scopes, policy reforms, and education in New Zealand, evidenced by over 700 citations on Google Scholar.