I joined the Foundation Degree team in January 2005, having previously worked as an Associate Lecturer for K100 and as a Clinical Placement Facilitator in the NHS. In my nursing career, I specialised in general intensive care nursing. I have a science background and have taught anatomy and physiology and nutrition and health in the past. I am involved with the development of courses across disciplines and settings in health and social care.
BSc Hons Plant Sciences (University of London)
Registered Nurse
PGCE
K114 Introducing Professional Practice – Deputy Chair (Production)
K114 Introducing Professional Practice – Presentation Chair (2006)
K214 Extending Professional Practice – Production and Presentation Chair
K101 An Introduction to Health and Social Care - Presentation Co-Chair
K101 Writing Development Pathway
K101 Teaching Online Panel
Y178 Understanding Health - Presentation Chair
I'm on the production team for K217, Adult health and social care
Special interest groups:
HSC Practice research group
HSC Teaching and learning group
FSS qualitative work in progress group
Interested in the pedagogies of work-based learning and course design using the VLE.
I have taken part in an evaluation project exploring the characteristics, experiences of learning and workplace conditions of students undertaking the Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care.
My main research activity now is for my PhD, which I am studying part-time with the Open University.
In my PhD, I am investigating the lived experience of nurses who are mentors for student nurses in practice settings. In nursing, the mentor is a well-defined role that requires mandatory preparation and updates. Mentors help to identify learning needs and opportunities for their students and facilitate access to this learning within their own practice area. In this context, they are also responsible for assessing and validating practice competence and professional conduct of students. The quality of the student experience is partly dependent on the quality of the mentoring they receive. As the limitations on number of practice placements continue to challenge commissioners and providers of nurse education, investigating the mentor lifeworld can increase our understanding of how exposing students to real professional work plays out in practice for those nurses who are central to and actively engaged in educating the next generation.
RELATED WEBSITES:
I have a couple of blogs to invite discussion around phenomenology as a research method and the experiences of mentors for students in professional practice.
Using phenomenology: http://usingphenomenology.blogspot.com/
Mentoring students in professional practice: http://mentorphd.blogspot.com/
HSC media development working group
HSC skills working group
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