Deputy Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in CPD
I am a registered Adult Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) with experience working clinically in operating theatres in both orthopaedic trauma and high-risk elective procedures. I have experience of service improvement projects including improving theatre flow and efficiency and waste reduction. I was responsible for facilitating effective perioperative warming to reduce the impacts of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia.
I achieved a BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies (Adult) from Northumbria University achieving registration with the NMC. I then completed a PGCE HE from the University of Sunderland as well as achieving Fellowship with AdvanceHE. Then I completed an MSc Advancing Practice from the University of Stirling which allowed for exploration of topics such as Psychological Trauma and Research Methods. With the MSc Advancing Practice, I conducted my dissertation on the comparison of sociocultural factors in undergraduate nurse education in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand. I have now achieved Senior Fellowship with AdvanceHE.
Teaching and supervision
I am Programme Leader/module leader for Practice Assessor Conversion Masterclass and Deputy Programme Leader for BSc (Hons) Nursing (Top Up). I am also module leader for several modules both on campus and with our Sunderland Online delivery platform.
I am module leader for:
- BSc Nursing (Top Up): NRS306 Equality, Diversity, Ethics, and the Law in the Healthcare
- BSc Nursing (Top Up) – Sunderland Online: HNU303 Practice Based Evidence – Evidence-Based Practice
I also provide dissertation supervision at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for the NRS303 Research Proposal and HSSM75 Dissertation Project.
Research interests for potential research students
My research interests include 'race' and ethnicity, equality diversity and inclusion and intersectionality. I am also interested in international nurse education, service improvement and innovation within healthcare, psychological trauma and interprofessional learning.
Research
My research while in practice focused on service improvement specifically cost efficiency improvement projects with operating theatres. Whereas my research focus know encompasses different aspects of 'race' and ethnicity, equality, diversity and inclusion and health inequalities
My clinical areas of expertise are within the perioperative environment and infection prevention and control (IPC) including hand hygiene and surgical scrub technique. Within the perioperative environment, I have experience of orthopaedic trauma, general, emergency, and high-risk elective operations. I also have experience of cost and service efficiency improvement projects, IPL and interprofessional working (IPW), and EDI within healthcare.
Within higher education, my areas of focus include trauma-informed approaches, decolonial thought, 'race' and ethnicity and EDI.
I am a Registered Adult Nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as well as a Network Member of FUSE and a Fellow with AdvanceHE.