School of Nursing and Midwifery

Claire Rushton is a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Keele University. She contributes to teaching in foundation and adult branch pre-registration nursing courses at Diploma and Degree level. Claire is a module lead for the Adult Branch Nursing programme and a module lead for Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare which forms part of the Learning Beyond Registration programme.

Claire’s clinical background is in cardiology nursing. Her interests include end of life care and she has completed a MA in Medical Ethics and Law through which she explored the potential impact of the Mental Capacity Act (2005) on women’s end of life decision making. Claire is also interested in heart failure and co-morbidity and particularly the impact of co-morbidity on changing prognosis in heart failure.

Claire regularly contributes to practice working in a nurse led heart failure assessment clinic. Claire is a peer reviewer for the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing and sits on the School of Nursing and Midwifery research access committee.