Dr Kate Lillie

Title: Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Phone: 01782 679703
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Location: CEC - SF42
Role: Award Lead: Post Graduate Certificate in End of Life Care
Contacting me: Email or pop in
Lillie Kate

I am a Lecturer in Adult Nursing with a particular interest in evidenced based practice and palliative care

I completed my RGN training in 1991. I worked clinically for twelve years in a variety of hospice and end of life care environments. I completed my Master’s degree in ‘Death and Society’ at Reading University in 2003 with distinction. I was awarded the RCN Marjorie Simpson New Researcher Award in 2007 for work undertaken as part of my PhD. This considered the care needs of hospice patients and families with a family history of cancer in the context of genetic predisposition. I completed my PhD in 2009 at Birmingham University.

My research is primarily focused on providing information to help healthcare professionals better understand the needs of patients and their families at the end of life.

I am particularly interested in the way people obtain psychosocial and spiritual support when living with advancing incurable disease. My first study looked at the reasons why people with incurable disease went on pilgrimage and my PhD focused on how the knowledge of genetic predisposition to cancer affected the care needs of palliative patients and their families.

I have also worked work on a project that considers the educational needs of nurses and allied health professionals working with people with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. This led to my current project which considers the care needs of people with advancing progressive disease and co-morbid musculoskeletal pain.

I am currently a Post-Doctoral School of Nursing and Midwifery Fellow undertaking an epidemiological study that looks at the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain at the end of life.

Selected Publications

  • Ryan S, Lillie K, Thwaites C, Adams J. 2013. 'What I want clinicians to know' - experiences of people with arthritis. British Journal of Nursing, vol. 22(14), 808-812.
  • Lillie K, Ryan S, Adams J. 2013. The educational needs of nurses and allied healthcare professionals caring for people with arthritis: results from a cross-sectional survey. Musculoskeletal Care, vol. 11(2), 93-98. link> doi>
  • Lillie AK, Read S, Mallen C, Croft P, McBeth J. 2013. Musculoskeletal pain in older adults at the end-of-life: a systematic search and critical review of the literature with priorities for future research. BMC Palliat Care, vol. 12(1), 27. link> doi>
  • Lillie AK. 2011. The challenge of caring for arthritis at the end of life. Musculoskeletal Care, vol. 9(4), 239-242. link> doi>
  • Lillie AK, Clifford C, Metcalfe A. 2011. Caring for families with a family history of cancer: Why concerns about genetic predisposition are missing from the palliative agenda. Palliat Med (2011), vol. 25(2), 117-124. doi>

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Journal Articles

  • Ryan S, Lillie K, Thwaites C, Adams J. 2013. 'What I want clinicians to know' - experiences of people with arthritis. British Journal of Nursing, vol. 22(14), 808-812.
  • Lillie K, Ryan S, Adams J. 2013. The educational needs of nurses and allied healthcare professionals caring for people with arthritis: results from a cross-sectional survey. Musculoskeletal Care, vol. 11(2), 93-98. link> doi>
  • Lillie AK, Read S, Mallen C, Croft P, McBeth J. 2013. Musculoskeletal pain in older adults at the end-of-life: a systematic search and critical review of the literature with priorities for future research. BMC Palliat Care, vol. 12(1), 27. link> doi>
  • Lillie AK. 2011. The challenge of caring for arthritis at the end of life. Musculoskeletal Care, vol. 9(4), 239-242. link> doi>
  • Lillie AK, Clifford C, Metcalfe A. 2011. Caring for families with a family history of cancer: Why concerns about genetic predisposition are missing from the palliative agenda. Palliat Med (2011), vol. 25(2), 117-124. doi>
  • LILLIE A. Exploring Cancer Genetics and Care of the Family: An evolving challenge for palliative care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing (2006), vol. 2(12), 70-74.
  • Jones J, Green J, Lillie AK. Maggots and their role in wound care. British Journal of Nursing (2011), vol. 3 Suppliment(16), 24-33.
  • LILLIE A. The Practice of Pilgrimage in Palliative Care: A case study of Lourdes. International Journal of Palliative Nursing (2005), vol. 4(11), 170-176.

Other

  • LILLIE A. Dying with a family history of cancer: A phenomenological study. European Journal of Human Genetics (vol. Supplement 2, p. 426).
  • Metcalfe A, Coad J, LILLIE A, Royse S. End-of-life care required by patients and families affected by an inherited genetic cancer In Symposium 9: Building a programme of genetic research to inform practice. The RCN International Nursing Research Conference Book of Asbstracts (p. 117).

My main teaching focus is palliative and end of life care but I am also actively involved in teaching evidence based practice.