Jan Dewar RN

In 2020 Jan was the clinical advisor for the Health Quality & Safety Commission’s patient deterioration program. She recently completed her Doctor of Health Science thesis, focused on the experience of ‘good care’ in medical/surgical hospital settings.

She is a registered nurse with a clinical background in a range of acute hospital settings and nursing leadership and spent 10 years as nurse director/associate director of nursing at MidCentral DHB. She was the clinical lead for the deteriorating patient program there, including testing of shared goals of care principles and processes. Jan is an experienced auditor using tracer methodology to audit the Ministry of Health’s health and disability sector standards audits. She is currently a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology.