I qualified as a registered nurse from the University of Surrey in 2002 and worked in acute medical admissions. Following some years out to care for my family, during which time I trained and worked as an NCT breastfeeding counsellor, I returned to practice in 2014. Since then, I have worked in the acute sector in care of the elderly, as a scrub nurse and in complex discharge planning/patient flow. I then moved into leadership and management in nursing homes, where I worked through the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and completed my master’s including undertaking empirical research for my dissertation. Following a brief spell managing an acute covid-19 ward, I am now working as a university lecturer and hope to continue research in the future.
Nursing and Midwifery Council
I have completed a piece of qualitative research into the management of clinical safety in care homes as part of my master’s and this is in the process of being submitted for publication. I am interested in continuing research into nursing in social care and across the interface between health and social care in the future.