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Professional Education
January 1987 to April 1990
Registered General Nurse Training (PIN No. 87A1691E)
Peterborough and Stamford centre for nurse education
September 1992 to August 1993
Diploma of Higher Education in critical care nursing
(incorporating E.N.B. course 148)
Oxford Brookes University
April to October 1996
Trauma nursing course
(incorporating E.N.B. course 998)
Nottingham University School of Nursing
September 1998 to October 2000
Master of Science Degree in Advanced Nursing Practice
Nottingham University School of Nursing
(Passed with distinction)
Professional employment
May 1990 to September 1994.
Staff nurse grade .
Neurosurgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
Role summary:
- Delivering nursing care to groups of patients
- Occasional ward management
- Mentoring students
Key achievements:
- Learning to be a staff nurse
- Developing specialist nursing skills
September 1994 to January 1995.
Staff nurse.
D10: Neurosurgical ward, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Role summary:
- Delivering nursing care to groups of patients
- Managing the occasional shift for the ward and bed management for the unit
Key achievements:
- Greater experience of traumatic brain injury
- Further development of specialist skills in the care of neurosurgical patients
January 1995 to October 1996 to May 2000
deputy charge nurse .
D8: Spinal Disorders Unit, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham
Role summary:
- Delivering nursing care to groups of patients
- Regularly taking charge of the ward
- Maintaining clinical standards
- Mentoring students
Key achievements:
- Developing specialist skills in the care of spinal patients
- Re-designing neurological assessment
- Developing a spine specific respiratory assessment tool
October 2000 to November 2001
Health lecturer (part time)
Seconded to Nottingham University School of Nursing
Role summary
- Teaching, assessing and coordinating spinal disorders and pain management post registration courses
Key achievements
- Improved confidence as a teacher
- Insight into organizing a programme of learning
May 2000 to September 2003
Clinical Specialist (Nurse) With Nottingham Back Team
Role summary
- Delivering a biopsychosocial programme of care for patients with chronic back pain, in the community as part of an interdisciplinary team
- Triage of patients with back pain and referral to the most appropriate treatment
Key achievements
- Developed a deeper understanding of back pain
- Learning physical examination skills
- Developing interdisciplinary documentation
- Gaining insight into project working and working in an interdisciplinary team
- Gaining an understanding of outcome measures
September 2002 to April 2004
Local Improvement Leader (part time)
Seconded to the National Back Pain Collaborative
Role Summary
- Leading and facilitating an NHS Modernisation Agency initiative to improve services for people with back pain across Nottingham
Key achievements
- Agreeing referral criteria between every local back pain service as part of a whole community back pain pathway
- Establishing an advice clinic for NHS staff through occupational health
- Practical insights into the change process
September 2003 to July 2007
Charge Nurse for Practice and Professional development,
D8,Spinal Disorders Unit, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.
Role summary
- Supporting and developing clinical practice and practitioners through clinical teaching, training, role modeling and coaching
Key achievements
- Developing evidence based specialist care guidelines
- Established a programme of clinical supervision
- Devised a programme of in house education
- Continued service improvement in spinal outpatients
July 2007 to September 2008
Practice development lead / matron
Musculoskeletal and neurosciences directorate Nottingham university hospitals
Role summary
- Coordinating, directing and delivering practice development across the directorate through supporting ward managers and clinical educators
Key achievements
- Contributed to improvements in infection control procedures
- Restarted clinical benchmarking
- Lead the development of mandatory training for the directorate and mapped and defined mandatory training for the trust
June 2005 to September 2008
Practitioner Health lecturer Seconded to the school of nursing in Nottingham University
Role summary
- Teaching, assessing and coordinating spinal disorders and pain management post registration courses
Key achievements
- Made further improvement in ability to teach and assess
- Amalgamation of two spinal modules into one
Current post
September 2008 to present
Lecturer in Surgical Nursing and Clinical, Nottingham University, Division of Nursing
Expertise Summary
Reflecting my clinical experience and research/scholarly interests I have a degree of expertise in leadership, particularly as it is applied to change and improvement in healthcare. the sociological orientation of my doctoral studies has given insight into the importance fo the social generally and a degree of expertise in practice theory, particularly the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.
Running alongside these academic topics related to my teaching and fledgling research work I maintain an interest in developing pedagogy and examining higher eduction in a scholarly manner, particularly the value of critical reflection in understanding events and developing novel strategies for delivering the best education in a sometimes challenging context
Teaching Summary
I teach predominantly in pre-registration nursing. I help students learn about nursing across all three years, but I am most involved the third year. I teach on a range of topics related to, and… read more
Research Summary
My research interests are in the area of patient safety, clinical leadership and quality of care. I also maintain a scholarly interest in my areas of clinical expertise (spinal disorders,… read more