If you wish to get in touch please don't hesitate to e-mail me, or follow the contact me link on the left for my address, phone and fax details.

If you are a student you may find my Student Help Pages of use, although this is a private site (not supported by or connected with UWE) you are welcome to visit.

Education

RMN

Registered Mental Nurse

Kingston & Long Grove School of Nursing, Epsom, Surrey

RNMH

Registered Nurse for the Mentally Handicapped

Carshalton School of Nursing, Carshalton, Surrey

ENB 705

Certificate in Behaviour Therapy Nursing

Bethlem & Maudsley School of Nursing / Institute of Psychiatry, London

BA (Hons), RNT

BA (Hons) Nursing Education, 

Registered Nurse Tutor

Royal College of Nursing / University of Manchester

MSc

MSc Research Methods (with Distinction)

University of Portsmouth

Recent study

LeTTOL

LeTTOL (Learning To Teach On-Line), Sheffield College.

C&R

Care & Responsibility, 5 day course

Teaching

I teach Research methods / research awareness on a variety of courses. These include the post-registration module Evidence, Research & Practice which is currently offered at the Bath, Bristol, Gloucester and Swindon Centres; the dissertation module "Research in Specialist Community Practice" on the BSc (Hons) Health and Community Practice; and the Project / Dissertation module for the pre-registration BSc (Hons) / DipHE nursing courses.

Manual Handling - I have been involved with manual handling training workshops within the faculty, and also "in-house" workshops and consultancy for local health, social care and education services, including the private sector.

I have also provided  teaching and workshops on managing aggression and violence with clients with head injuries; study skills courses; continence, IT skills; and behaviour therapy with people with learning disabilities.

Research

I have completed a study of patient advocacy in nursing to investigate the nature and extent of patient advocacy in nursing practice, and the characteristics that distinguish nurses who are "active" as patient advocates from those who are not. A draft of my MSc Dissertation for which I conducted this study, is available here in Adobe pdf format.

I developed an instrument for this study, the Patient Advocacy Scale (PAS) which has been used in a number of studies in US and Europe, most recently in Portugal.

I have previously completed some small scale studies: "The Experience of Advocacy" which adopted a phenomenological approach to investigate the experience patient advocacy amongst oncology nurses; and "Attitudes to De-institutionalisation" which investigated the attitudes of care staff in a learning disabilities hospital, to hospital closure and community care.

I am interested in conducting research to investigate the use and experience of physical restraint in Mental Health & Learning Disability nursing.

Nursing

Qualified with RMN in 1983 and RNMH in 1984 and worked as a Charge Nurse in a Challenging Behaviour unit in a large hospital for people with learning disabilities 1985 - 1987.

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Behaviour Therapy Nursing 1987 - 1989, working with clients with severe challenging behaviours, including self-injurious behaviours, in both hospital and community settings, and with clients referred from the courts, prisons and special hospitals.

Nurse Teacher - University of the West of England, Faculty of Health & Social Care (formerly Bath & Swindon College of Health Studies) since 1989.

I currently maintain my clinical skills by practicing in a variety of health care settings on a regular basis.

Placements

I am a Link Tutor for a variety of placements for students in Learning Disability services in the Bristol area. If you are a member of staff in one of my link areas, you may wish to subscribe to my discussion group here , so that you can keep in touch with other placements, get news and announcements from me, and enter into discussion about relevant issues with others. Please Join!

Publications

I have published articles on nursing theory, self-injurious behaviour, and communication in learning disabilities, and an article on Power Analysis to determine sample size in research. I have also co-authored the data analysis web site resource.

International

In April 1999 I was fortunate to be able to go to Finland on a teacher exchange visit to the Rovaniemi Polytechnic School of Health Care and Social Services. This exchange was an activity under the European Commission Socrates / Erasmus project. 

Memberships

British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)

Royal College of Nursing

Rcn Research Society

Institute for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

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