Health eMagazine - Autumn/Winter 2014

School of Health Sciences Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2014

Health Sciences @Nottingham

Giving something back

Recent Graduate Laureate Award Alumna Anna Kent awarded for her humanitarian work overseas.

Physiotherapy work in Borneo/Malaysia Physiotherapy students help to raise the profile of orphanage in Bukit Harapan.

Student electives Students offered opportunities for development of global nursing knowledge.

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Note from the Editorial Board

Midwifery on the move

P2 Note from the Editorial Board

Midwifery on the move

P3 Anna receives Recent Graduate Laureate Award

P4 Giving something back

P5 Growing electives, broadening student perspectives

Tea and therapy - the Pop Up Café project

P6 Education and Technology for Health research group

Recent bids

P7 Physiotherapy in Borneo/Malaysia Bukit Harapan

P8 Nursing matters

Midwifery staff and students visit the International Confederation of Midwives

New course - MSc Maternal and Newborn Health

P9 Practice, student and staff profiles

P10 Alumnus profile: Edward Appiah Boateng

E-learning apps for European nursing education

Embedding interprofessional learning

Public Health England launch new framework

P11 PhD student awarded Best Young Researcher

PhD student to present at scholars’ forum

Student wins best oral presentation at HIV Conference

What’s on

P12 Quick news

The centralisation of midwifery teaching and research staff from the School’s centres at Queen’s Medical Centre, City Hospital, Derby, Mansfield and Lincoln took place in September 2014. The midwifery team have now moved into refurbished office accommodation on floor 12 of the Tower Building on University Park.

The centralisation project was undertaken to support classroom teaching of midwifery programmes in Nottingham from September 2014. Students will be taught in Nottingham, but will continue to be placed for clinical experience across the East Midlands. All lecturers will maintain their links with placement areas to provide appropriate support to both students and clinical mentors. The Division of Midwifery is currently looking at how they can develop the link tutor role to ensure that the excellent partnerships they have with clinical colleagues are fostered and the student learning experience is enhanced.

The move to the Tower is a major change for Division staff, as they will be together in one workspace for the first time. Midwifery colleagues are settling in well to the new accommodation and are looking forward to creating a space that reflects their passion for midwifery education and research, and raises their profile within the School and University.

They are in the process of planning an open afternoon where they look forward to welcoming students, clinical and academic colleagues, but in the meantime, please feel free to pay them a visit.

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Welcome

News

Welcome to the Autumn/Winter edition of Health eMagazine!

We are now well into a new academic year. A total of 747 students from across the School successfully graduated from the University in July and are now embarking on the next stage of their careers. Meanwhile, in September we welcomed a total of 657 new undergraduate and postgraduate students to the School. We look forward to working with our new students to help them reach their potential.

The main theme for this edition is ‘giving back’. We really do have a very active student and staff community, and the stories we have included will give you a flavour of what many of them do outside the classroom for the benefit of society.

Do get in touch with any news or stories you would like to share and be considered for publication.

Please also get in touch with any comments you would like to make about the magazine, or to get yourself added to the email distribution list, by contacting us at [email protected]

Thank you for reading! Editorial Board: Virinder Lail, Kay Akhter, Jocelyn Daniels, Catrin Evans, Jonathan Lamley, Kirsty Hyndes

The Tower Building on University Park Campus.

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Anna Kent has been awarded The University of Nottingham Recent Graduate Laureate Award for her humanitarian work overseas with the aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and subsequent teaching to healthcare students.

Anna graduated from The University of Nottingham in 2003 with an undergraduate Master of Nursing degree and in 2010 with a first degree in Midwifery. Whilst studying, Anna gained awards in both disciplines for her outstanding contribution to the courses and undertook an overseas elective at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Following her graduation as a nurse in 2003, Anna commenced her work in the Emergency Department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), during which time she also gained her Diploma in Tropical Nursing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Anna then joined MSF, which provides impartial humanitarian aid where it is needed most, often in areas suffering natural disaster, armed conflict, and epidemics. Anna’s first mission was in South Sudan, a country ravaged by civil war where people had no access to healthcare. She spent nearly a year living in very basic conditions managing two healthcare centres, which would see everything from snake bites to gunshot wounds, obstructed labour to severe malnutrition.

Due to the devastatingly high maternal mortality rate in South Sudan, Anna was inspired to return to Nottingham

to complete her BSc Midwifery before returning to work with MSF in Haiti, after the devastating earthquake and cholera epidemic in 2010. It was very challenging; most hospitals had been destroyed in the earthquake and many MSF staff killed. Anna helped to manage a cholera treatment centre which treated over 3,000 people a month, clinically educated staff, and helped to write new policy about maternity care within a cholera epidemic.

Anna believes the high quality of her education at The University of Nottingham and foundation in evidence based practice helped her enormously and firmly believes in the education of the people she works with.

Anna then worked in an MSF refugee camp for stateless Rohingya in Bangladesh, providing healthcare for 25,000 people. She trained nurses and midwives to safely open a Birth Unit for the refugees in an area that also suffered from earthquakes and flooding.

Anna currently works in Nottingham as an NHS Nurse in Acute Adult Care and is the Specialist Midwife for women living with HIV. Due to her belief in education, Anna regularly teaches on the School’s Master of Nursing Science course, and speaks at public events about humanitarian aid.

Anna receives Recent Graduate Laureate Award

Alumni

Anna Kent working in a therapeutic feeding centre assessing children with acute severe malnutrition in South Sudan in 2007.

“Aid work isn’t about making people feel guilty…Everyone in society has a role to play, and whatever they can offer will make a difference to the quality of life in developing countries.”Anna Kent


Fundraising

Giving something back - fundraising funMany of the staff and students in the School participate in events to raise money for charities close to their hearts. Here are just a few of the great causes staff and students have been supporting recently.

Student children’s nurses run Race for LifeStudent nurse Danielle Garrington-Miller writes about the Race for Life:

On 8 June 2014, some of the School’s first year paediatric nurses gallivanted 5k in pink scrubs on a Sunday morning. No, this was not an extensive post-Oceana walk of shame; your student nurses did the Race for Life.

The atmosphere was fuelled with excitement and although it was a very warm day – the hottest day of the year so far – everyone showed up in their pink scrubs raring to go and ready to work for our sponsorship, which was over £500.

The girls walked the entire 5km three-legged! Amazingly, nobody fell over. As I chose to run it, I got to cheer on the exceptional sight of fabulously pink three-legged soldiers, marching the final 100m. This was certainly a moment of pride!

For us, the Race for Life meant more than that 5km along the beautiful Nottingham Embankment. This first year, which has marked the beginnings of our careers as nurses, means that as well as our personal experiences of friends and family who are affected by cancer, we can come face to face with children with cancer and in turn can see the effect of the diagnoses of a parent with cancer on our child patients too.

We inadvertently embark on many people’s cancer stories. For us, raising money and awareness was more than philanthropy, but a privilege to do as much as we can for these patients and for any other person who hears “you have cancer” one day.

Fellow student nurse Rachel Cook held that “the three-legged thing is about us understanding recovery and how even if it can be difficult to ’walk’ and carry on, if we work together with the patient we can get through it. The journey might be hard, but we know the finish line is in sight and we will do our best for the patient”. Well, in my opinion, a nurse who chooses to show the compassion to walk with you through any illness is the mark of an excellent one.

As mentioned before, I chose to run. Many people I have spoken to with cancer, or who have survived their illness talk of fear and loss and, above all, crippling isolation filled with unanswerable questions. Running next to hundreds of people, yet actually being alone on the run, gave me but a mere taste of this isolation.When we find a cure for cancer we can finally answer these questions and obliterate the terrifying question of “Well, is it terminal?”

Cancer hijacks and mutates more than just cells, but entire lives too. Thank you to everyone who supported us financially, and by turning up on the day, you helped us become one step closer to finding a cure.

Black History Month eventsThe School put on a number of events for Black History Month, with money raised going to ‘Forever Stars’.

‘Forever Stars’ is a local charity set up by Michelle and Richard Daniels following the tragic loss of their beautiful baby daughter, Emily, who was stillborn on 19 December 2013. The aim of the charity is to raise funds for a bereavement suite at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.

Events included our very own Head of School, Professor Patrick Callaghan, being the DJ for a night of soul music.

Other events included salsa dancing, belly dancing, steel drums and limbo.

DJ Soul Professor Patrick Callaghan.

Equinox 24On Saturday 20 September through to midday Sunday 21 September, physiotherapy staff from the School were part of an eight person ladies team, running a 24 hours mixed terrain race at Belvoir Castle called Equinox 24. The course was a challenging off-road circuit of 10km and was continuously run by Fiona Moffatt, Lisa James, Vicky Hood, Jackie Hollowell, Sarah Westwater-Wood, Catherine Moore, and Michelle Hall.

The idea is to run continuously (relay style) for 24 hours through the winter equinox. In total they completed 220km over 24 hours - an awesome achievement, particularly considering some of the team had only ever run 5km before. Incredibly, everyone in the team is keen to return again next year to beat their record.

Thank you to those who have donated. The team has raised £215 so far for Headway - the Brain Injury Association, and it’s not too late to donate - visit www.justgiving.com/lisa-james14

Funding to provide screening for undiagnosed heart conditionsLecturer Heather Reid has raised money for Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). The money raised provided screening on 14 September for many young people to measure risk of undiagnosed heart conditions.

Physiotherapy team support Life Cycle for Children’s Brain Tumour ResearchStaff and students supported Life Cycle 4 on Sunday 31 August by providing massage and physiotherapy advice for cyclists and members of the public.

The Equinox 24 race team from the Division of Physiotherapy.

Student nurses at the Race for Life (photo by Sam Jones).


The undergraduate nursing curriculum has widened participation of the flagship elective programme to incorporate BSc Nursing students, offering an exciting opportunity for the development of global and cultural nursing knowledge for practice. In 2012, the Division of Nursing introduced electives to around 400 BSc Nursing students, upscaling the elective programme from 60 Master of Nursing Science students in previous years.

Growing electives, broadening student perspectives

An elective placement is a practical opportunity for a student to design their own placement and meet their own learning outcomes. It can enhance employability, widen perspectives of healthcare and promote students’ concept of globalisation.

Students can choose an elective either locally, more widely in the UK, or globally, where approximately 25% choose to travel to another country for their four week elective or undertake a 12 week option (supported through ERASMUS). They may work with different client groups; for example, children rather than adults, or people with mental health issues instead of child or learning disability. This could be a different care setting; for example, a prison or a hospice or with the homeless, or a different health trust from their usual placements.

The evidence from electives undertaken identifies that they can help students to plan and manage their lives and their workloads more effectively. It can build confidence and responsibility and help students to communicate with a wide range of people, sensitively, and to appreciate cultural difference.

Students who have been on electives say that the change also enables them to value resources and to bring back many skills to their future placements. Their experiences are wonderful to listen to – whether they have been across the world or round the corner.

We hope to showcase some elective experiences in future editions of Health eMagazine.

Electives

The Pop Up Café project’s aim is to provide free hot drinks and a listening ear to the general public in areas where there is considerable social deprivation in Derby and Nottingham. The café received a grant from the University’s Cascade alumni fund to purchase a gazebo, tables, chairs, generator, urns and refreshments.

The hope is that the café will develop a presence in Derby and Nottingham city centres that represents the University and allows student healthcare professionals to experience

interactions with individuals in the community outside of a healthcare context. The café not only allows students to engage and give back to the community they are a part of, but also to cultivate an understanding of people’s lived experiences and appreciate what life is like for the most vulnerable in our society.

This project has the potential to change the way healthcare students think about healthcare that will influence their practice in a positive and compassionate way.

The first pop up café event will take place on 25 November 2014. Students and staff across the Faculty have volunteered to take part and initial meetings have proved to be exciting with students putting forward ideas for liaising with local charities and businesses to ensure the project is sustainable.

If you would like to get involved with the pop up café, please get in touch with either Aimee ([email protected]) or Gemma ([email protected]).

Tea and therapy - the Pop Up Café project

Community

Research


Welcome again to Research Roundup. The last few months have been very busy with staff submitting a lot of research bids. Fingers’ crossed for successful outcomes!

We have also run a workshop for research staff, and held the first meeting of the School Research Strategy Board at the beginning of October. This Board will set the strategic direction for future research in the School.

The new Research Operations Committee will meet in November and will concentrate on any

day to day research issues. Our new Ethics Officer, Dr Kristian Pollock, and her Deputy, Dr Holly Blake, are currently working hard to set up a webpage to address the most commonly asked ethics questions and to sign post staff to available resources.

Finally, an important date for researchers in the School will be 18 December, when the national Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 results will be published.

Research roundup

The Education and Technology for Health research group conducts research on teaching and learning innovation and technological interventions for healthcare education and practice.

With pedagogy and practice at the heart of the research group’s focus, the group attracts membership across the School of Health Sciences. One major strand of work has been to develop methodologies to produce high quality multimedia reusable learning objects (RLOs) and to determine their use and impact within education and healthcare practices.

In 2005, the group received a prestigious five year award to become a Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning in RLOs. Building on this research has informed the participatory (user-centred) design and online pedagogy methodology and has led to over 100 high quality multimedia learning resources released as open education resources. These are currently being used worldwide by many thousands of students and other users in over 50 institutions in 20 countries.

Other projects within this theme include C2HEAR in which RLOs were shown to be effective in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to support new hearing aid users (funded by NIHR patient benefit programme and working in collaboration with the National Biomedical Research Unit for Hearing), and HOPON where RLOs provided educational support for parents of pre-term babies to encourage and guide them in how to improve their baby’s mobility. Technology interventions involving text messaging have also attracted funding to promote physical activity (Active 8 project) and the use of mobile phones to promote health and tackle HIV (Health 4 U).

Members of the group are also working on EU funded projects for educational developments. A grant from the Erasmus Plus programme will allow e-resources developed by the University of Stavanger for an online nursing course to be translated into English and Spanish.

The PHExcel project, led by the European Association of Higher Education, aims to support professional higher education institutions across Europe by developing a tool to monitor and benchmark quality to improve their performance.

A scoping activity was carried out in the spring to evaluate the group’s future direction. As a result of this, the group will be looking at strategies to strengthen its cohesion and facilitate further high quality research within the School. For further information visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/eth

Education and Technology for Health research group

Research group

Hemingway P, Dieppe C, Tunnet R, Coppel D, Miller P, Cook J, Drummond A., Can we reduce Children’s Emergency Department attendances?; analysis of parents’ decisions having chosen the Emergency Department for children aged 0-5 years with non-urgent medical complaints, Nottingham Hospitals Charity and NUH Department of Research and Development Pump Priming competition Spring 2014, £9,980.

Sprigg N, Foss A, Drummond A, Bath P, Webb B. Visual impairment after stroke; Assessing priorities and acceptability of emerging technologies to improve outcome. NUH Department of Research and Development Pump Priming competition Spring 2014, £9,992.

Thomas S, Drummond A, Callaghan, P, Walker M, Lincoln NB, das Nair R, Palmer R, England T, Cooper C, Walters S and Lattimer N. Behavioural activation therapy for treating post-stroke depression: a feasibility randomized controlled trial (BATS). HTA commissioned call, £497,523.

Recent bids

Research bids

Avril Drummond, Director of Research

This section will keep you informed about important research initiatives both within the School and the wider University, and will also report successes in funding, publishing and presenting work.

The School is proud to be part of a global University and supports a range of exciting activities that promote its global reach. This section will keep you informed about important international activities undertaken by or in collaboration with the School.

Global reach


International

In June and July 2014, six physiotherapy students travelled to the Bukit Harapan (BH) care project in Malaysian Borneo for the third and latest stage of their project, supported by £4,641 from Cascade, the University’s alumni fund.

The project has so far helped improve the lives of 52 orphans with varying levels of physical and learning disability, as well as

helping the volunteers that care for them. The key objective for the latest stage of the project was to raise the profile of the orphanage within its local community and help secure the long term financial future of BH, in addition to working with the residents and staff in providing ongoing therapy.

As part of the activities, the students wrote an article for the ‘Sabbah Times’ regional newspaper and participated in a one-hour radio interview with the regional radio station to discuss the purpose of their visit and the needs of the clients of Bukit Harapan. Subsequently, a visit to Bukit Harapan was arranged with Mohamad Noor Wahad, Deputy Director of Welfare Services and Natelie Gaban, Assistant Director for Special Needs in Sabbah. Both watched students carrying out physiotherapy treatments and inspected the newly revamped sensory room. Having the opportunity to talk with the officials, the students outlined the lack of resources for the children and the ongoing need for both education and physical therapy.

The students had the chance to provide an in-service training session to the therapists in the local women’s and children’s hospital regarding the treatment of children with cerebral palsy, and some other conditions not commonly seen in the UK. This required a significant amount of research and preparation by the students and was very well received, with staff expressing a commitment to continue a close liaison with the orphanage.

The regional archery club also requested some input from the students and they took that opportunity to raise awareness of physiotherapy for injury prevention and treatment of sport injuries. Finally, a Skype discussion took place with Professor Christine Ennew, CEO and Provost at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC), exploring potential links for students

from the education programmes delivered at UNMC and physiotherapy students from Nottingham to provide support for Bukit Harapan in the future.

As well as raising awareness, the students committed to wide ranging therapeutic interventions with the residents; rebound therapy, strength training, gait education, postural management, sensory education, upper limb training, behavioural programmes and orthotic reviews were undertaken daily. Their problem solving abilities and creativity was at times truly tested. Of course, many of these things were achieved by having lots of fun as well, including creating tie-dye t-shirts, animals from water bottles and various other craft sessions.

“It’s been such an enlightening experience working in Malaysia, particularly with such welcoming people. I’m honoured to be part of the project which helped the children and the local community. I hope our partnership continues long into the future.” James Greenwood

“Working at Bukit Harapan teaches you to look at the bigger picture and how to develop new treatment options, since you have to think outside the box. Bukit Harapan is a very special place where everyone is accepted, and no challenge is too great.” Jemma Woyda

Participants:• James Greenwood (Year 2)• Jemma Woyda (Year 2)• Georgia Seddon (Year 2)• Blaithin Hadjisophocleous (Year 3)• Charlie Wade (Year 3)• Ric Gittons (Year 3)• Nathan Gunning (Band 5

Physiotherapist)• Tom Gittoes (Band 5

Physiotherapist)• Grahame Pope (Head of Division)• Marjan Blackburn (Lecturer)

Visit their blogs at http://uonbukitharapan2014.blogspot.co.uk andhttp://bkexperienceblog.wordpress.com

Physiotherapy in Borneo/Malaysia Bukit Harapan

Borneo/Malaysia

Vision, Action, Proud to Nurse, 6C’s…Rallying calls reverberating around our School, care settings and more widely for the nursing profession, which recognises that while Francis and

Winterbourne View and Medway, followed by the Berwick and Keogh reviews cannot ever be ignored or forgotten, these tragic observations of poor practice should not be allowed to solely define British nursing moving forward. It is wonderful then, to observe our students seeking to define their future profession as they see it, and as they wish it to be.

This year, The University of Nottingham nursing students have been busy achieving awards for their care, their compassion and their creativity. Jade Mitchelmore and Emily Gartshore were shortlisted for National Edith Cavell Awards; the Red Lids team and Amelia Painter shortlisted for Student Nursing Times Awards; Emily Gartshore winning Student Nursing Times Adult Branch Student of the Year; Natasha McVey winning NHS Junior Leader of the Year, and we have not even started on the local awards for excellence!

Midwifery staff and students visit the International Confederation of Midwives in Prague

Dr Carol Hall, Director of Undergraduate Programmes writes:

A team of staff and students from the Division of Midwifery participated at the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) 30th Triennial Congress in Prague in June 2014.

There was a reception for over 70 delegates, which provided an opportunity to showcase pre- and post-registration programmes, staff publications and research activities. It also provided a great opportunity to forge collaborations with midwifery colleagues from across the globe.

The team felt it was a privilege to be able to share ideas with fellow midwives and academics from the international midwifery community. The take home message from the conference was that by working together midwives can improve the wellbeing of mothers and have a significant impact on maternal mortality rates.

“If we could sum up the Congress in one word it would be ‘inspirational’! To be part of a global profession such as midwifery is an honour and to share our passion for midwifery and midwifery education with fellow midwives from around the world was awe-inspiring and humbling.” Rachel Best, Midwife Lecturer

“The opportunity to attend the ICM Congress was fantastic for me personally. Chosen as flag-bearer for the UK by the RCM at the opening ceremony the atmosphere was incredibly positive. With 3,700 midwives from over 100 countries, most in national dress, the room was filled with colour, laughter and song.” Sally Goodwin, MSc Midwifery student

Nursing

Midwifery

It does not stop there; our students have been active in influencing the profession of nursing on the international and national stage and more locally too, through participation and action. Examples of this include BSc/Diploma third year students, Bev Williams and colleagues meeting Nottingham University Hospitals CEO Peter Homa in the corridor and attending the NUH Directors meeting to offer the views of students. They did this so effectively our future students have been invited by Peter on an annual basis to attend the Nursing Directors meeting.

The Red Lid team from Boston made their innovation hit the headlines, by offering us the simplest and most effective solution of red lids on water jugs to ensure those at risk of dehydration are clearly identified and supported to drink more. Master in Nursing Science students went to the Royal College of Nursing to share their views on adolescent mental health care support in schools, while the nursing ACTION group worked together with staff to produce the highly successful VISION conference for staff, students and our partners, reminding everyone there that ‘the standard you walk past is the standard you accept’, and that nursing at its best is never complacent, but must always be proud to recognise what is done well.

Nursing matters


We have a record number of ‘care makers’ within our student body and they too have been spreading the word and sharing best practice. Internationally, the No Flush project is but one example of the creativity of our students, as this team combined the expertise of nurses and engineers with a campaign grant to build a new compost toilet facility in Ghana, thus creating real practical change to promote health and wellbeing for those in greatest need.

Behind our students, of course, there are those who support them, for without the enablers and the inspirers and the supporters, our very excellent students would not be able to make their opportunities to shine. Thanks must go to faculty, the administration, teaching and support staff within our School and to the families of the students who support them in their passion to become the very best nurses.

Looking at nursing going forward, what is needed are energetic, innovative, competent, skilled, caring and compassionate leaders to take on the challenges of a rapidly changing and intensively challenging profession. These examples show us how this can be achieved.

The School of Health Sciences is delivering a new course entitled MSc Maternal and Newborn Health.

This course is designed to enable healthcare professionals currently working in the fields of maternal and newborn health to develop, deliver and direct high quality maternity services within the context of the national and international drive towards improving maternity/health outcomes for childbearing women, their newborns and their families.

The course aims to equip health professionals with the knowledge and skills required to operate at senior and strategic levels in today’s maternity and related healthcare settings. Students will study the ethical, political, legal, economic, multi-professional and global context in which healthcare is provided to childbearing women and their newborns.

Find out more on the website at www.nottingham.ac.uk/go/maternal-newborn

New course -MSc Maternal and Newborn Health

1. What is your role in practice? I have a dual role as an Advanced Practice (AP) or Extended

Scope Musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapist and Professional Lead for Physiotherapy in a community healthcare social enterprise delivering NHS services.

2. How long have you been in your current role? I became an AP MSK Physiotherapist earlier this year and I have been Professional Lead for Physiotherapy for Nottingham CityCare Partnership for five years.

3. Best thing about your role? The best thing about my role is that I get to work with fantastic colleagues and inspirational patients, who make

both roles exciting, rewarding and enjoyable.

The advanced practice role is very interesting. As well as working in MSK clinics, I get to work with an integrated team of other AP MSK Physiotherapists, Orthopaedic Consultants, Pain Specialist Nurses and Occupational Therapists in a Community Integrated Clinical Assessment Clinic, assessing and signposting people to appropriate pathways for ongoing management, and providing steroid injection therapy.

I feel highly privileged to have the Professional Lead role. It involves representing and providing professional support to all the physiotherapists in our organisation working in the various community teams, such as Stroke, Rehabilitation and Respiratory. I also work in partnership with the local universities, co-ordinating practice learning and training opportunities for students and physiotherapy staff.

Profiles

Practice profile: Nancy Manners

1. What are you studying? I’m a second year student studying the BSc Midwifery.

2. How long have you been studying here?

I have been studying in Nottingham for a year and half.

3. Best thing about your course? Part of the midwifery programme involves caseholding a woman throughout her pregnancy; as students we attend her antenatal appointments and scans. We then have the opportunity to support her at the birth as we are “on call” for this. In the postnatal period, we accompany the community midwife and visit her and the baby at home.

This scheme has provided me with an insight into the care women receive throughout the maternity service and I have met some lovely families during the course – it was a special moment for me when one caseholding couple gave their baby the middle name Ana.

4. Most challenging thing about your course? I’m still finding night shifts challenging. I thought I’d be used to them by now!

5. Your future ambitions? I would really like to get my first job as a Band 5 midwife in either of the NUH hospitals in order to continue to build up experience and confidence in the maternity service. At some point in my career I hope to volunteer abroad with Maternity Worldwide.

6. What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given? Always ask questions - never miss an opportunity to learn more.

7. Your favourite food? Crumpets with marmite.

8. Three words to describe you? Optimistic, considerate, open-minded.

9. Your ideal holiday destination? Havana, Cuba.

10. Your claim to fame? I haven’t really got one! I think I can only say I’ve been in the local newspaper for raising funds for a charity and my name got mentioned.

Student profile: Ana Gomez-Thompson

1. Job title and role? Assessments Apprentice.

2. How long have you been with the University? Just over a year.

3. Best thing about working for the University? A huge benefit of working for the University is that you’re given many opportunities to explore new skills and develop yourself. Another would be the pleasant atmosphere, as you’re constantly working closely with friendly, reliable and supportive people.

4. Worst thing about working for the University? Probably waking up early!

5. Your unfulfilled ambitions? To be able to finish an Annie’s burger with room left over for pudding.

6. What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given? Don’t trust anyone who puts the milk in the bowl before the cereal.

7. What makes you angry? When people eat the last chip.

8. Three words to describe you? Cheeky, sarcastic and polite (I cheated slightly and asked the team!).

9. Your ideal holiday destination? Somewhere lively and with a good atmosphere – I love big cities. Warm weather is a must as well!

10. Your claim to fame? My granddad, I suppose. He used to be the goalie for Nottingham Forest and then went on to performing Frank Sinatra songs. We were both on the front page of the Loughborough Echo once, as he had raised money performing and donated it to the Queen’s Medical Centre children’s ward.

Staff profile: Amy Lewis


I am very proud of and admire the hard work undertaken, and innovation produced by the physiotherapists in our organisation.

4. What is the biggest challenge of your role? Balancing the different responsibilities of both roles can be challenging. Also, trying to increase awareness of the skills and experience that physiotherapists and other allied health professionals can offer when services are being redesigned.

5. What would you most like to achieve in your role? I would like to develop the AP physiotherapy role to work as a first contact practitioner in GP practices, undertaking case management, organising investigations and follow up, referring to appropriate consultant services, managing acute and chronic MSK pain and injuries, and non-medical prescribing.

A significant number of patients that make same day appointments at GP practices present with MSK, neurological and respiratory conditions. Physiotherapists have excellent communication, assessment and clinical reasoning

skills and are well placed to deliver this level of healthcare and rehabilitation management. This would provide much needed support to overstretched GP primary care services.

6. What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given? Be kind and treat others how you would like to be treated.

7. Your favourite film? The film I enjoyed watching recently was Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Hotel Budapest’, great storyline and cinematography. I think ‘Into the Wild’ by Sean Penn, is a phenomenal film, very thought provoking.

8. Three words to describe you? Enthusiastic, supportive and optimistic.

9. What is your ideal holiday destination? Anywhere with mountains, snow, family and friends.

10. Your claim to fame? I was on ‘Saturday Superstore’ when I was eight years old, skating round Blackpool Ice Rink. It’s been downhill since then!

I graduated from the MSc Advanced Nursing programme in December 2010.

I am now in the third year of my PhD programme, which commenced in July 2012, through a joint sponsorship of The University of Nottingham and

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana.

I chose to study at The University of Nottingham because I knew of its reputation as one of the leading universities in the United Kingdom. I was one of nine students offered a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme (CSSS) award to begin my Masters in September 2009.

During my MSc, I undertook comprehensive systematic review training organised by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Centre, now the Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare in The University of Nottingham. This prepared me to undertake a systematic review that looked at the

impact of dialysis modality on quality of life in patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD). This review was published in the Journal of Renal Care and subsequently informed the NICE 2012 evidence update on peritoneal dialysis.

I went back to Ghana in January 2011 and was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Nursing, KNUST. I worked there for one academic year and was subsequently awarded a KNUST/University of Nottingham joint scholarship to begin a full-time PhD programme. My PhD is focussed on exploring decision-making experiences of patients with ESKD in Ghana, with Dr Linda East and Dr Catrin Evans as my supervisors. My intention is to contribute to understanding the experiences of ESKD patients in a developing country context and how best to support them.

My experience in The University of Nottingham and the School of Health Sciences has been marvellous – the commitment and astuteness of the staff has shaped my academic career and my profession. I have lived and studied in a very supportive atmosphere within this period and I look forward to inspiring generations in Ghana and beyond.

Alumni

Alumnus profile: Edward Appiah Boateng

Embedding interprofessional learning

Teaching and Learning

Embedding interprofessional education and learning in undergraduate health and social care curricular continues to be a challenge. However, following the Faculty Review (2011) and the Interprofessional Learning (IPL) Task and Finish Group, IPL is becoming firmly embedded.

IPL for the School is defined as “when two or more professions learn about, with, and from each other in a meaningful way to improve collaboration and quality of health and social care”. The School engages students on a professional journey of IPL, so whilst they are learning about their own profession they learn about other professions. As their courses progress, they learn with each other in a blended learning approach and as each professional student gains expertise they will learn from each other with mutual respect and collaboration.

Student engagement has been further achieved through the development of an ‘Interprofessional Student Peer Facilitator’ module as part of the Nottingham Advantage Award, to build on students’ extracurricular interests and personalise their career development. Medical, Nursing and Physiotherapy students have also been proactive in developing IPL scenarios resulting in presenting at an international IPL conference.

The IPL experience at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences over the last decade has gained global recognition with presentations in Japan, Canada, USA, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Australia, Poland and Belgium. This has attracted many international and national visits to our Centre of Interprofessional Education and Learning and the conferment of the title of Visiting Professor to the present Director of IPL, Richard Pitt, by the Faculty of Human Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. IPL has not only been embedded in curricula, but in partnership with practice colleagues from all health professions and across all fields it is embedded in practice and clinical skills.

We move forward with the recognition of the contribution of IPL to student learning and practice with the appointment of Interprofessional Learning Leads for each School/Division in the Faculty. This, along with the appointment of a new Director and the continued support of administrator Linda Kelly, will further the foundations of IPL and continue to enhance the University’s national and international reputation in this field, with the current Director, Richard Pitt being appointed as Vice Chair to the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education.

A new project for development and implementation of interactive mobile e-learning applications for European nursing education allows Professor Heather Wharrad and Dr Richard Windle to continue their work with long standing partners at The University of Stavanger and establish a new partnership with Valencia.

Electronically supported learning tools have increasingly been accepted in higher education over the past few decades. A variety of new e-learning tools have been developed to serve students in their learning processes including podcasts, games and rich media e-compendiums.

The objective of this project is to develop and implement new mobile interactive e-learning applications (apps) for European bachelor nursing education, to facilitate increased and improved flexible learning and to participate in changing the pedagogy towards digital, more flexible and interactive student-centred education programs, as well as the modernisation of higher education.

Based on established and well evaluated Norwegian rich media e-compendiums, new interactive e-learning apps to be used on mobile devices will be produced. These apps contain a variety of learning tools such as text, figures, interactions, animations, videos, audio, tasks and more. All e-learning apps will be made in English, Spanish and Norwegian and be published on App Store and Google Play, free to download.

E-learning apps for European nursing education


Public Health England has produced a new framework (July 2014) for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals.

This framework has been developed to maximise the impact of nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals on improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities. It aims to support health promoting practice that encompasses both personalised care and population health across all ages.

It has been developed with practitioners and leaders. Development will continue alongside Public Health England’s Health and Wellbeing Framework being launched later this year and it will enable healthcare professionals to connect practice to the overarching approach to improving health.

For further details please see: www.gov.uk/government/publications/framework-for-personalised-care-and-population-health

Public Health England launches new framework

News


First year PhD student, Deborah Oliveira, has received a number of awards at the 2nd International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, where she presented her research.

Deborah received three awards:

Best Young Researcher Award: For her research “Age and quality of life of family carers of people with dementia living at home: Systematic literature review”, for which she will receive a full text publication.

Best Poster Award attributed in recognition of research paper quality, novelty and significance for two different posters:

“Adaptation and validation of the Huntington’s disease quality of life battery for carers (HDQoLC) to older family carers of people with dementia: On-going research”

“Anticipated support for care in community-dwelling older adults (Brazil)”

PhD student awarded Best Young Researcher

Achievements

What’s on

PhD student, Kennedy Nkhoma, has been awarded a funded place to present at the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Emerging Scholars’ Forum in October 2014.

The Forum supports early research career development and international networking of emerging nursing scholars.

It brings together the next generation of leading nurse scientists to share their research

in a setting which promotes critical networking and an opportunity to advance nursing science.

This is an invitation-only forum with successful applicants being selected via a peer review process. As part of the invitation, Kennedy will have the opportunity to present his doctoral research – “An educational intervention to reduce pain and improve pain management for Malawian people living with HIV/AIDS and their family carer: a randomised controlled trial” - to peers and the Faculty.

PhD student to present at scholars’ forum

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2014 Time: 7-10pm Location: The Atrium, The National College, Jubilee Campus

Forever Stars is a local charity set up by Michelle and Richard Daniels following the tragic loss of their beautiful baby daughter, Emily, who was stillborn on 19 December 2013. The aim of the charity is to raise funds for a bereavement suite at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.

The quiz night will also have a raffle, auction and bar, and includes a hot supper. Teams can have a maximum of six people.

Tickets are £10 per person. All welcome.

To book please contact Linda Allsop: t: +44 (0)115 823 0801 e: [email protected]

Date: Thursday 27 November 2014 Time: 12.30-1.30pm Location: C1071, South Block Link, Queen’s Medical Centre

A travel guide to the fantastic world of qualitative evidence synthesis Professor Karin Hannes, Methodology of Educational Sciences Research Group, Catholic University Leuven

Do you want to learn:• why we need to consider qualitative evidence in daily practice?• how to develop qualitative evidence syntheses?• how to choose between different methods for synthesizing qualitative

evidence?• how to integrate qualitative insights in systematic reviews of

effectiveness?

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Events

Charity Quiz Night in aid of Forever Stars

Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare Research Seminar

On 26 and 27 June 2014 the 16th Annual National HIV Nurses Association Conference was held in Cardiff. The School was well represented with six different presentations from both staff and students.

Sophie Kavallares, a recent graduate from the Masters of Nursing Science course, won best oral presentation.

Sophie’s presentation was her dissertation topic: ‘A qualitative exploration of Adult Nurses’ perceptions of caring for a patient with an infectious disease, with a primary focus on HIV’.

Student wins best oral presentation at HIV Conference

Congratulations to all our students for their fantastic achievements!

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Associate Professor, Roger Kerry, will be a Keynote speaker at the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) Conference in Glasgow, 2016.

It’s the second largest international physiotherapist conference and is held every four years. The last time it was held in the UK was 1988. There are only two UK Keynotes. Roger was asked on the basis of his contribution to international change of practice and involvement in international guidelines on neck and head pain, as well as his work on causation in health research and evidence-based medicine.

Find out more at www.ifomptconference.org

Associate Professor invited to be Keynote speaker at international conference

School to host RCN international conferences

The School will host both the RCN International Education Conference in March 2015, and the RCN International Research Conference in April 2015. These are the College’s flagship conferences.

Dr Julie McGarry, Dr Carol Hall and Stacy Johnson work closely with the RCN and have been instrumental in bringing these conferences to Nottingham.

Associate Professor wins award for most downloaded paper

Dr Holly Blake, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science, has won an award from the Royal Society for Public Health for the most downloaded article published in 2013.

Her paper, ‘Five-year workplace wellness intervention in the NHS’ was downloaded an average of 78.77 times per month from the publication date. She will be presented with a prize at an awards dinner in London on 14 January 2015.

Vice Chancellor’s Award 2014 winners

The Health E-Learning and Media (HELM) team won a Vice-Chancellor’s Achievement Award for excellence in supporting Learning and Teaching.

The award is for exceptional achievement by staff or students at any of the University’s campuses in China, Malaysia or the UK.

Student awarded first prize for research presentation

Congratulations to second year PhD student, Danielle Mills, who was awarded first prize for her Research Snapshot Presentation at the East Midlands Universities 2014 student conference.

The Research Snapshot Competition involved 10 students presenting their research and findings in three minutes.

Prestigious national mental health lecture comes to Nottingham

Following a competitive bid, the School has been selected to host the 2015 Eileen Skellern Memorial Lecture and the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Lifetime Achievement Award lecture.

This will be the first time since its inauguration in 1980 that the Skellern Lecture will be delivered outside London.

The awards given out at this event are given in recognition of outstanding achievement in mental health nursing each year. The School has had two previous winners; Professor Patrick Callaghan in 2010 and Dr Julie Repper in 2007; and Professor Paul Crawford was shortlisted in 2011. The winners are nominated and selected by students and mental health nursing clinicians and academics.

Nursing student appointed as Nursing Times student editor

Congratulations to Lucy Cleden-Radford, from the 1209 cohort of learning disability student nurses, who has been appointed as one of the Student Nursing Times student editors for 2014/15.

Lucy said “I hope to learn in this role, to read more articles from other student editors in my position and those who are out there in the vast world of nursing already. I want to make connections, learn names, talk to people who care about nursing and educate those who don’t, have contact with people with opinions like mine and those with opposing views, widening my perspective.”

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