Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing

I am a Registered Nurse with a wide range of experience in both primary and secondary care settings. I started my career as an operating department nurse, where prevention of infection is a key aspect of care. Over time my interest in this aspect of care grew and I became a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Infection Prevention and Control in 1999. Since then I have had a varied career as a CNS, then a matron in acute, community and pre hospital care settings.

I took up my position as Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Bedfordshire in 2013 and enjoy teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In March 2017 I took up the role of course co-ordinator for the MSc Adult Nursing with registration programme.

I am currently studying for my Professional Doctorate in Health and my research study relates to student nurses’ perspectives of raising concerns

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Qualifications

• FHEA
• PGC(M)E – University of Cambridge
• MA Health Law – University of Hertfordshire
• BSc (Hons) Nursing – Brunel University
• BSc Infection Control Nursing - University of Hertfordshire
• RN – Adelaide Hospital Dublin.

Teaching Expertise

• Infection Prevention and Control
• Quality and Safety
• Health Law and ethics
• Clinical skills
• Leadership and Management

Research Interests

• Nurse Education
• Quality and Safety
• Infection Prevention and Control

Projects

• Student Nurses’ perspectives of raising concerns (current)
• The influence of clinical practice placements on Nursing Students’ career choices (current)

Publications

• Wareing M, Taylor R, Wilson A, and Sharples A (2017) The influence of placements on adult nursing graduates' choice of first post. British Journal of Nursing, 26:4, 228-233
• Wilson A (2008) How clean is your equipment? The role of decontamination of reusable medical devices in the prevention of Health Care Associated Infection Technic 5(1): 9-13.
• MacDonald A Dinah F MacKenzie D and Wilson A (2004) Performance feedback of hand hygiene using alcohol gel as the skin decontaminant reduces the number of in-patients newly affected with MRSA and antibiotic costs, Journal of Hospital Infection, 56, 56-63.

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743809
E: aileen.wilson@beds.ac.uk