Dr Kate Lillie
- Title
- Lecturer in Adult Nursing
- Location
- SF42, CEC
- Phone
- 01782 679703
- a.k.lillie@keele.ac.uk
Biography
Research and scholarship
Kate’s research is primarily focused around supporting patients and families affected by advancing incurable disease. She is Chair the School Palliative Care, Loss and Bereavement research group. In collaboration with other members of this group she has been successful in gaining funding to consider issues surrounding grief and loss in the criminal justice system. She was in developing the the Bounce Back Boy into a media resource (https://www.rcn.org.uk/clinical-topics/end-of-life-care/bounce-back-boy) with the RCN Pain and Palliative Care forum. She is actively involved in researching palliative care context in a palliative international. Kate’s PhD considered the care needs of hospice patients and families with a family history of cancer in the context of genetic
predisposition.
Teaching
My main teaching focus is palliative and end of life care but I am also actively involved in teaching evidence based practice. In particular, I lead the MSc Clininal Effectiveness Module and the MSc Advanced Work-based practice Module.
Selected Publications
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International Nursing Summer School. full text>
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2020. Metasynthesis: dying adults' transition process from cure-focused to comfort-focused care. Evid Based Nurs, 86, vol. 23(3). link> doi> full text>
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Understanding Drain Management. Nursing Standard. full text>
Full Publications Listshow
Journal Articles
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2020. Metasynthesis: dying adults' transition process from cure-focused to comfort-focused care. Evid Based Nurs, 86, vol. 23(3). link> doi> full text>
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Understanding Drain Management. Nursing Standard. full text>
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2019. A review of end of life care for people with dementia in UK care homes: staff and family carer perceptions. Journal of Community Nursing, 60-65, vol. 33(2). full text>
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2019. Abdominal radiograph preliminary clinical evaluation image test bank project. Radiography (Lond), 250-254, vol. 25(3). link> doi> full text>
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2017. Law, ethics and end-of-life care: the policy and practice interface in England. Int J Palliat Nurs, 213-218, vol. 23(5). link> doi> full text>
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2013. 'What I want clinicians to know' - experiences of people with arthritis. British Journal of Nursing, 808-812, vol. 22(14). doi>
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2011. Caring for families with a family history of cancer: Why concerns about genetic predisposition are missing from the palliative agenda. Palliat Med (2011), 117-124, vol. 25(2). doi>
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Exploring Cancer Genetics and Care of the Family: An evolving challenge for palliative care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing (2006), 70-74, vol. 2(12).
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Maggots and their role in wound care. British Journal of Nursing (2011), 24-33, vol. 3 Supplement(16).
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The Practice of Pilgrimage in Palliative Care: A case study of Lourdes. International Journal of Palliative Nursing (2005), 170-176, vol. 4(11).
Chapters
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2018. Loss at the end of life. In Loss Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System. Routledge.
Other
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International Nursing Summer School. full text>
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Initiation, running, evaluation and improvement of an international nursing summer school. Nurse Education Today. Elsevier.
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Dying with a family history of cancer: A phenomenological study. European Journal of Human Genetics (p. 426, vol. Supplement 2).
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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 Abstracts (p. 117).
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The absent health professional. link>
