Professor Jane Ball
Director
RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence
Jane Ball is director, RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence. Her research has focused on nursing employment and deployment, looking at how features of nurse staffing affect care quality, patient outcomes and nurses themselves. The unifying aim of the many studies she has led has been to identify conditions needed to allow nurses to deliver excellent care and have satisfying and sustainable careers. She has worked at the Institute for Employment Studies, as policy adviser at the RCN, and as deputy director of the National Nursing Research Unit (King’s College London). For the past ten years, Professor Ball has been based at the University of Southampton. She was made a fellow of the RCN in 2019.
Jane Ball is speaking at the following session on Thursday 24 October:
Keynote – Achieving safe staffing levels: protecting people and outcomes