Jane Jordan

Jane Jordan is the Nurse Unit Manager of the Older Persons Evaluation Rehabilitation and Assessment Ward in Cairns hospital. Before this role, Jane was the first Clinical Nurse Consultant for Dementia and Delirium for the Cairns and Hinterland District. She has over 30 years’ experience as a nurse in Australia, the UK and Papua New Guinea, and has worked in a variety of nursing fields. Her passion has always remained with the care of the elderly which led her to specialise in caring for the cognitively impaired. Jane advocates a person-centred approach to comprehensive dementia care and challenges the traditional medical model focus on processes, schedules and staff organizational needs to achieve the best outcomes for her patients.