Jacqueline Frock began her nursing career with an AAS from Bacone College in 1987. She received a Baccalaureate in Liberal Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 1994, and from Oklahoma City University received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2004 and a Master of Science in Nursing in 2006. Her primary area of clinical practice has been in mental health/psychiatric nursing. She was selected as a Janssen Scholar by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association in 2006 for graduate nursing research in anxiety levels of nursing students during psychiatric clinical rotations. She has also worked in psychiatric home health and oncology.