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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
My nursing
career focused primarily on the acute care and rehabilitation of patients
following a stroke both in the private sector and in the NHS.
I have been a Stroke Research Nurse at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London with my most recent clinical post being Ward Sister on the Acute Stroke Unit at St Mary’s Hospital in London.
I began my lecturing career in 2003 at London South Bank University where I worked as a Senior Lecturer teaching on a variety of pre-registration nursing units including managing care, clinical skills, teaching and assessing, politics and law, and nursing older people. I also managed the PGCert in Practice Education.
I have been
the Director of Placements with the University of Bedfordshire since July
2007.
The key function of my role
is to work in partnership with placement providers to ensure that students have
the opportunity to experience placements that are of a high standard, where
students are able to achieve the necessary competencies to be fit for
practice.
Part of this partnership working is to help prepare and support mentors in their role of teaching and assessing students in practice. I am the course leader for the MSc Health Studies, manage a Practice Teacher unit at Masters Level and facilitate a key skills development unit for postgraduate studies. I supervise Masters level dissertation students and in 2010 will begin supervising Health Doctorate students.
My interests are now focussed around fitness for practice, in both the development of a pre-registration curriculum that produces nurses that are fit for practice and purpose, and in the support and development of mentors and practice teachers.
I am currently undertaking my PhD looking at the experiences of
mentors who fail pre-registration student nurses in their final placement.
I enjoy teaching legal and ethical issues in health, mentorship, qualitative research methods and I like supporting personal and professional development.
I currently lead a learning, teaching and assessment in health research group, and I am particularly interested in qualitative methodologies.
