Professor Jennifer Hunt
MPhil, RGN, BA(Hons), FRCN
Professor Jennifer Hunt is an innovator, facilitator and leader. She is an expert in nursing research and management and her interests include consultancy; writing; and the relationship between nurses, nursing and outcomes. She has excelled in the clinical application of research findings, and in demonstrating to nurse practitioners the relevance and usefulness of nursing research to their role as clinicians.
Many of the senior posts that Jennifer has held have been newly established or undergoing considerable change and she has relished the challenge and opportunity of giving them substance. Because few of these posts have had managerial authority, Jennifer’s considerable leadership skills have enabled her to achieve agreed objectives by developing enthusiasm and commitment among staff through teaching, persuasion and example.
Jennifer is most proud of developing the initial concept for the Royal Marsden Clinical Policy and Procedure Manual, of successfully establishing the Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland, and of being the first nurse member of the Audit Commission.
Some key figures who encouraged her in her career include Marjorie Simpson in nursing research; Brysson Whyte, Kate Bennet, Bob Tiffany and Luther Christman in nursing; and Tom Peters and Peter Drucker in management and leadership.
Her vision for the future places nursing as the major input to changing outcomes, and nurses with the power to take financial control.
Jenny lives in Hertfordshire and is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Health Research, University of Luton.
Publications
Jenny set up the nursing practice committee which developed research-based policies and procedures published as the very successful Royal Marsden Hospital Clinical Policy and Procedure Manual. She is a reviewer for Journal of Nursing Management. She has established several successful nursing journal clubs and critical appraisal journal clubs.
Some of her many publications include:
- Indicators for practice: the use of nursing research findings, Journal of Advanced Nursing (1981)
- Towards evidence based practice, Nursing Management (1997)
- Review of Bridging the research-practice gap: a reflective account of research work, Nursing Times Research (1999)
- Research into practice: the foundations for evidence based care, Cancer Nursing (2001)
- Future perspectives of evidence-based practice, Seminars in Oncology Nursing (2001)
- Co-author of The relationship between UK hospital nurse staffing and emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction, Journal of Nursing Management (2005).