Jane Bickerton

Visiting Lecturer
Telephone 020 7040 5415
Email j.bickerton@city.ac.uk

 

Qualifications
RN HV BA (psych) MA(Phil) WHNP PHC

 

Career summary
Jane Bickerton was appointed as a lecturer in Primary Care and Public Health Nursing in January 2003, and a Senior Lecturer in January 2005 and since September 2007 has been a visiting lecturer teaching on the MSc primary care nurse practitioner and on the first contact.
 
She is a Bart’s trained nurse and qualified as a Health Visitor through North London Polytechnic while working in Hackney. She has worked as a Housing Adviser at Shelter Housing Aid Centre and in Guatemala as a healthcare volunteer.

 

In the late seventies she moved to the States where she worked as a registered nurse for the Feminist Women’s Health Centre in Atlanta. In the nineties she worked as a research study coordinator at Emory University in the School of Medicine and was involved with reproductive health and lipids research. At Emory she also worked for the Department of Psychology on a research study that involved learning in the uterus. In 1997 she qualified as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner through Emory University’s Regional Training Centre, and is licensed as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of Georgia. She was employed by Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust as a nurse consultant from 2003-2007.

 

Her interests include the art of communication. She taught world cultures in the undergraduate programme at the Atlanta College of Art and was involved with many art projects both as a professional and as a volunteer. She completed a BA in psychology at Oglethorpe University in 1980 and an MA in philosophy at Georgia State University in 1991. Her Master’s thesis, using hermeneutical and existential theory, examined the organisation of aesthetic images in performance videos. She is a PhD candidate studying first contact consultation interaction at City University


Teaching activities 
First contact and MSc NP students

 

Research interests 

  • 2003-2010 The Lifeworld of video health consultations Jane Bickerton PhD candidate City University.
  • 2006 Healthy Choices for Male College Students in Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust J Bickerton, R Driver, J Reid
  • 2005/7 Bursary shared with Mary Daly North East London Research and Development(NELCRAD) totalling £4,800.00 to look at Health beliefs in the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets: “an exploratory study of beliefs relating to food and exercise”
  • 2005  a collaborator to liaise between the RCNI research team and the staff at Whitechapel Walk-in Centre on study: The contribution of nursing, midwifery and health visiting to protocol-based care and its variants on organizational, patient and staff outcomes and quality care
  • 2005- Principal Investigator NELCRAD research grant £20,000.00 Streaming Emergency Department Patients to Primary Care Services: Developing a Consensus in NE London  
  • 1998/02  Sub-investigator/Study Coordinator for Clinical Lipid trials: Pfizer, Parke-Davis, Merck, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Astra-Zeneca
  • 1995/7 Research RN, Grady Hospital & Gyn/Ob Department of Emory
    University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
  • 1997 Sub-investigator/Study Coordinator Randomized Trial of Estrogen plus Progestin for Secondary Prevention Coronary Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS)
  • 1995/97 Peri-natal research RN: Psychology Department at Emory 
  • 1973 Research assistant for Chelsea & Kensington Health Project

    Publications
  • Evidence based primary health care and local research: a necessary but problematic partnership (2008) Stephen Abbott, Jane Bickerton, Mary-Louise Daly and Susan Procter  Primary Healthcare Research and Development: 9 191-198
  • Streaming Emergency Department Patients to Primary Care Services: Developing a Consensus in North East London (2008) Susan Procter, Jane Bickerton, Teresa Allan, Helen Davies and Stephen Abbott. Unpublished Report, Public Health, Primary Care and Food Policy Department, City University.
  • Health Beliefs in the Bangladeshi Community in Tower Hamlets: An Exploratory study of beliefs relating to food (2007) Mary Louise Daly and Jane Bickerton. Unpublished Report, Public Health, Primary Care and Food Policy Department, City University.
  • Streaming of A&E Patients to Walk in Centre Services (2005) Jane Bickerton,
    Timothy J Coats, Vinod Dewan, Susan Procter and Teresa Allan
    Emergency Nurse: Vol.13 no3 p 20-24.
  • Report: Scoping Education Needs and Provisions for walk-in-centres in North East London (2004). NELSHA Caroline Loudon and Theresa Berry; PHPCU City University: Stephen Abbott, Jane Bickerton, Rosamund Bryar, Helen Davies, Marcus Hostettler,Vicky Lack, Benedict Lee, Susan Procter.  December 2004
  • "A Volunteer in Guatemala, Emergency and Long Term Care in a Poor Rural Area” (1976) Jane Bickerton Nursing Times, September 7, Vol.74 No 36 1500-1503.
    In process
  • Walk-in-Centre Nursing:  The unique nature of walk-in-centre nursing  and the use of theory and research to inform practice (2009) Jane Bickerton in Developing Expertise: Professional Issues in Practice and Walk in Centre Nursing Bickerton Carol Cox and Marie Hill  Wiley & Blackwell (writing in process)