RaeAnna Jeffers is a Registered Nurse and a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her clinical experience spans 14 years of bedside nursing in the following areas: Pediatric and Adult Primary Care, Pediatric and Adult Home Health, Pediatric (inpatient) and Adult Oncology (infusion), and School Nursing. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University and a Health Informatics degree from the University of North Texas. She has plans to return for her Ph.D. in Health Informatics in January of 2022.

Rae's passion is to find reliable ways to get the highest quality research and information into the hands of nurses, doctors, and other health practitioners at the point of need. These professionals rely on information from many sources to inform decisions on how best to help their patients and communities. Without reliable research and information, we cannot claim to be evidence-based practitioners.

Rae's interests include the influence of publishing models on evidence-based practice principles and clinical outcomes. Many clinicians do not have access to crucial information that affects their practice because the resources are tied to membership, subscription, or some form of payment effectively locking clinicians out with paywalls. Rae is constantly searching for ways to connect clinicians to content to facilitate evidence-based care and find solutions to the issues of clinician access. 

Rae lives in Breckenridge, Texas with her family and two dogs, Bailey and Brownie. Rae enjoys the outdoors and can often be found in the garden, fishing, swimming, kayaking, and hiking with the dogs and family.