Gary Jones (nurse)

{{Short description|British nurse and author (born 1953)}}

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Gary J. Jones, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FRCN}} (born 1953{{cite web |title=Gary Jones CBE |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gary-Jones-CBE/e/B07ZMJSSP7/ |website=www.amazon.co.uk |access-date=14 April 2021 |language=en-gb}}) is a British nurse and author. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, the Florence Nightingale Foundation and the Faculty of Emergency Nursing. He is the editor and/or author of a number of journals and published articles about nursing.

In 1969, Jones began his nursing career as a hospital cadet at Orsett Hospital, Essex. He qualified as a nurse in 1974. He then trained as an ophthalmic nurse at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, before returning to Orsett Hospital.{{cite news |last1=Critchell |first1=Matthew |title=Ex-nurse Gary shares memories with new published book |url=https://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/18295963.ex-nurse-gary-shares-memories-new-published-book/ |access-date=14 April 2021 |work=Thurrock Gazette |date=11 March 2020 |language=en}} He was chair of the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) Accident & Emergency Forum UK from 1987 to 1990, and then chair of its successor, the RCN's Accident & Emergency Nursing Association UK from 1990 to 1995.{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Gary |title=A&E nursing: today and the future: Gary Jones identifies the issues that will have significance for A&E nursing in the 1990s |journal=Nursing Standard |date=28 March 1990 |volume=4 |issue=27 |pages=51–52 |doi=10.7748/ns.4.27.51.s51|pmid=2111502 }} From 1994 to 1997, he was honorary consultant nurse advisor to the Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health (DoH). He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2002.{{Cite web |title=RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows |url=https://www.rcn.org.uk/About-us/RCN-Fellows-and-Honorary-Fellows |access-date=7 Nov 2022 |website=Royal College of Nursing}}

He has advised on many aspects of emergency care, including paramedic training, expert nursing practice and emergency community care, on a national level. He owns and operates his own medical care company, Health Care Training & Development Services Ltd.

In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, Jones was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to emergency nursing.{{London Gazette |issue= 56963 |date= 14 June 2003 |pages= 7-8 |supp= y }}