School of Nursing and Midwifery

My career in nursing and nurse and healthcare education has spanned over 35 years and I am committed to supporting students and colleagues in the development of their own roles in nursing to enhance evidence based compassionate patient and client centred care and to promote the health of families, groups and communities. My clinical career centred on older people's nursing and health visiting and the public health aspect of health care is of great interest to me. I have been facilitating the education of nurses, midwives and health professionals at pre-registration; post registration and under and post -graduate levels over the last three decades and have developed my own practice and research interests over that time. These focus on transitions in nursing especially supporting newly qualified nurses; health visiting policy and practice and scholarship in nursing. I have in the past been a member of the Royal College of Nursing's national forum committee for health visiting and public health and have worked in partnership with NHS Trusts on educational and practice projects as well as being a representative on different Trust Boards and committees.

My current research interests focus on health visiting policy and practice. I am studying for a PhD entitled: Policy, Power and Professional Education: The Case of Health Visiting. I am also interested in transitions in nursing and have worked in partnership with colleagues on a funded project examining preceptorship and support of newly qualified nurses. Another funded project has enabled me with colleagues to consider the meaning and practice of scholarship in nurse education and its relationship to student experience