Dr Jacqueline Burke appointed Chair of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council

Jacqueline Burke has been appointed Chair of the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council and has recently taken up her four-year term. 

Jacqueline qualified as a general nurse in St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire and as a psychiatric nurse in St John of God's Hospital, Stillorgan Dublin. Her clinical nursing experience spans almost 15 years and is diverse, encompassing coronary care, intensive care, accident and emergency, medical, surgical and mixed clinical areas. She specialised in Coronary Care Nursing in St Vincent's University Hospital before undertaking a BNS and moving into the area of nurse education.

Prior to working in UCD in 2002, Jacqueline had nearly 10-years’ experience in pre-registration nurse-education in St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin. As a member of the National Implementation Committee for Pre-Registration Nurse Education, she was actively involved in the development and changes in pre and post-registration nurse-education and in the advancement of the Centres of Nurse Education.

Currently Jacqueline is Director of the UCD Graduate Diploma Nursing: Critical Care (Cardiovascular) programme and her teaching and clinical practice interest areas are cardiovascular nursing, cardiac arrest management and nursing theory, specifically the standardised language nursing languages NANDA-I NIC and NOC.

From 2007-2012 Jacqueline served as an elected member of An Bord Altranais (ABA), was a member of ABA's Education and Training, Finance and General Purpose and Ethics Committees.  She is currently a member of the 1985 Act ABA Fitness to Practice Committee.  Jacqueline also served as an appointed member of the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery for ten years and was a member of the Working Group of European Nurse Researchers (WENR) until it was inactivated in 2011.

Jacqueline has had a life-long interest in improving survival for cardiac arrest and was a member of the Irish Heart Foundation's National BLS Technical Committee and  served on National Faculty for many years.

On behalf of the Director and staff at PHECC we would like to congratulate Jacqueline on her appointment and wish her every success during her term.

The composition of PHECC Council is as follows:

Full Name	Position	Rationale
Dr Jacqueline Burke	Chairperson	Representative of the interests of the general public.
Mr. Patrick John Hanafin	Member	Appointed on the nomination of a body recognised by the Minister as being representative of emergency medical technicians.
Dr Shane Knox	Member	Appointed from recognised institutions. (NASC)
Mr Shane Mooney	Member	Appointed on the nomination of a trade union to represent the majority of emergency medical technicians.
Mr Hillery Patrick Collins	Member	Appointed on the nomination of a trade union, which, in the opinion of the Minister, is representative of the majority of emergency medical technicians.
Dr David Menzies	Member	Registered medical practitioner with an interest and expertise in pre-hospital emergency care.
Prof Patrick Plunkett	Member	Registered medical practitioner with an interest and expertise in pre-hospital emergency care.
Mr Stephen Brady	Member	Appointed from recognised institutions. (DFB/RCSI)
Mr Martin Dunne	Member	Representative of the management of health boards.
Dr. Conor Deasy	Member	Representative of the management of health boards.
Ms Tess O'Donovan	Member	Representative of the management of health boards.
Ms Fiona McDaid	Member	Registered nurse with an interest and expertise in pre-hospital emergency care.
Mr Patrick Fleming	Member	Person with a special interest or expertise in pre-hospital emergency care.
Dr Michael Molloy	Member	Registered medical practitioners with an interest and expertise in pre-hospital emergency care
Mr Thomas Keane	Member	Person with a special interest or expertise in pre-hospital emergency care
Dr Jason van der Velde	Member	Person with a special interest or expertise in pre-hospital emergency care

 

Council members at the recent induction worshop