Jacqui Prieto

Professor Jacqui Prieto

Professor of Nursing and Infection Prevention
Clinical Professor in Infection Prevention, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare
jacqui.prieto@uwl.ac.uk

As a Professor of Nursing and Infection Prevention Jacqui's academic and clinical work focuses on implementing evidence-informed care to reduce healthcare-associated infections. 

Throughout her career, Jacqui has combined clinical and academic scholarship. Having completed her PhD in 2004, she was awarded a Senior Clinical Academic Research Fellowship in 2008, pioneering a new joint appointment as a clinical nurse specialist and post-doctoral research fellow. 

In 2013 she was awarded a HEFCE/NIHR Senior Clinical Lectureship, gaining a tenured position as Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Southampton in 2014. 

Jacqui joined the Richard Wells Research Centre at University of West London in 2024, where her work aims to improve clinical care through research that informs best practice and supports its implementation.

  • Qualifications

    • PhD (University of Southampton) 
    • PgCert Academic Practice (University of Southampton) 
    • BSc Infection Control with ENB 329 (University of Hertfordshire) 
    • BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies with RN (University of Surrey)

  • Memberships

    Infection Prevention Society
    Royal College of Nursing
    Healthcare Infection Society

Teaching

Jacqui holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and is an experienced teacher in higher education.

Research

Member of:
The Richard Wells Centre

Jacqui's research interests include: 

  • Preventing urinary tract infection and catheter-associated urinary tract infection 
  • Optimising hygiene behaviours in healthcare 
  • Understanding patients' experiences of healthcare associated infection 
  • Delivering person-centred fundamental care

  • Research and publications

    Prieto J, Wilson J, Tingle A et al. Preventing urinary tract infection in older people living in care homes: the StOP UTI realist synthesis. Health Technol Assess 2024;28(68). https://doi.org/10.3310/DADT3410 

    Baush K, Stangl FP, Prieto J et al. Urinary infection management in frail or comorbid older individuals. European Urology Focus 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2024.08.007 

    Prieto J, Wilson J, Tingle A et.al. Preventing urinary tract infection in older people living in care homes: The ‘StOP UTI’ realist synthesis. BMJ Qual. Saf., 2024. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2023-016967 

    Payne V, Johnson M, Hunt K, Prieto J. Investigating the implementation of a complex intervention to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in the neonatal intensive care unit using Normalisation Process Theory. Journal of Neonatal Nursing July 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnn.2024.07.026 

    Wilson J, Griffin H, Gorzig A, Prieto J et al. Identifying patients at increased risk of non-ventilator associated pneumonia on admission to hospital: a pragmatic prognostic screening tool to trigger preventative action. JHI 2023; 142: 49-57. 

    Prieto J, Wilson J, Tingle A et al. Realist synthesis protocol for understanding which strategies are effective to prevent urinary tract infection in older people in care homes. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2023; 0:1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15707 

    Wilson J and Prieto J. Re-visiting contact precautions – 25 years on. Journal of Infection Prevention 2021; 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1177/17571774211059988 

    Prieto JA, Murphy CL, Stewart F, Fader M. Intermittent catheter techniques, strategies and designs for managing long-term bladder conditions (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2021, Issue TBD. Art. No.: CD006008. 

    Munro A, Prieto J, Mentzakis E et al. Powered respirators are effective, sustainable and cost-effective personal protective equipment for SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Medical Technology 2021. 3 (Article 729658): 1-13. 

    Wilks SA, Morris N, Thompson R, Prieto JA et al. An effective, evidence-based cleaning method for the safe reuse of intermittent urinary catheters: in vitro testing. Neurourology and Urodynamics 2020; 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.24296 

    Prieto J, Wilson J, Bak A et al. A prevalence survey of patients with indwelling urinary catheters on district nursing caseloads in the United Kingdom: The Community Urinary Catheter Management Study. J Infection Prevention (JIP) 2020; 21(4): 129-135. 

    Avery M, Prieto J, Okamoto I et al. Reuse of intermittent catheters: a qualitative study of IC users’ perspectives. BMJ Open 2018; 8:e021554. 

    Payne V, Hall M, Prieto J, Johnson M. Care bundles to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in the neonatal unit: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal Neonatal Edition, 2018; Sep 103(5):F422-F429. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-313362 

    Okamoto I, Prieto J, Avery M et al. Intermittent catheter users’ symptom identification, description and management of urinary tract infection: a qualitative study. BMJ Open 2017; 7:1-8. 

    Loveday HP, Wilson JA, Prieto J, Wilcox MH. epic3: revised recommendation for intravenous catheter and catheter site care. Journal of Hospital Infection 2016; 92:346-348. 

    Murphy C, Prieto J, Fader M. Catheters – It’s easier to stick a tube in: A qualitative study to understand clinicians’ decisions to place urinary catheters in acute medical care. BMJ Qual. Saf., 2015; 24:444-450. 

    Sartain S, Stressing S, Prieto J. Patients’ views on the effectiveness of patient-held records: A systematic review and thematic synthesis. Health Expectations 2015; 18(6):2666-77. 

    Loveday HP, Wilson JA, Pratt RJ, Golsorkhi M, Tingle A, Bak A, Browne J, Prieto J, Wilcox M. epic 3: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England. JHI. 2014; 86S1:S1-S70. 

    Murphy C, Prieto J, Fader M. Interventions to minimise the initial use of indwelling urinary catheters in acute care. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2014; 51:4-13. 

    Wilde MH, Fader M, Ostaszkiewicz J, Prieto J and Moore K. A systematic review of urinary bag decontamination for long-term use. Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing 2013, 40 (3): 299-308. 

    Prieto J and Macleod Clark J (2005). Contact precautions for Clostridium difficile and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Assessing the impact of a supportive intervention to improve practice. Journal of Research in Nursing. 10(5): 511-526.

  • Research degree supervision

    Principal supervisor: 

    • Camilla Holmes (PhD awarded in 2022): How and why urine output is monitored in acute medical environments. 
    • Victoria Payne (PhD awarded in 2021): An investigation into the implementation of a complex intervention to reduce late-onset sepsis in Neonatal Intensive Care. 
    • Donna Austin (PhD awarded in 2020): The child’s experience of single room isolation while in hospital. 
    • Matsikachando Moyo (PhD awarded in 2019): How do doctors and nurses in the acute medical unit manage patients with diarrhoea and vomiting? 
    • Catherine Murphy (PhD awarded in 2014): Why do clinicians place indwelling urinary catheters with patients in acute medical care? 
    • Janice Westbury (DClinP awarded in 2012): An exploration of consultant doctors’ hand hygiene: practice and perspectives. 

    Second supervisor: 

    • Amelia Heelan (PhD awarded in 2022): Finger foods as a nutritional support intervention for stroke patients in hospital.

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