southampton

Research interests

Her research interests are primarily centred around improving the quality and safety of neonatal care. In particular she is interested in implementation and translating evidence into practice. Her thesis on the implementation of complex interventions to reduce neonatal central-line associated bloodstream infections was a mixed-methods study looking at behavioural change, infection prevention, and organisational context, including the influence of staffing and organisational culture on safety behaviours.

She has presented her PhD work at several national and international conferences, including oral presentations at the European Association of Paediatric Societies conference (2016, 2020), the RCN International Nursing Conference (April 2017), and as a poster at the Neonatal Society meeting (June 2016). She was honoured to be an invited speaker at the international 99NICU conference (2019) and Reason (2020).

She was proud to receive the "Best Paper by a Clinical Academic" award in 2019 at the Southampton and Health Research Conference. She has peer-reviewed several papers for publication for leading nursing and medical journals.

Research

Research interests

Her research interests are primarily centred around improving the quality and safety of neonatal care. In particular she is interested in implementation and translating evidence into practice. Her thesis on the implementation of complex interventions to reduce neonatal central-line associated bloodstream infections was a mixed-methods study looking at behavioural change, infection prevention, and organisational context, including the influence of staffing and organisational culture on safety behaviours.
She has presented her PhD work at several national and international conferences, including oral presentations at the European Association of Paediatric Societies conference (2016, 2020), the RCN International Nursing Conference (April 2017), and as a poster at the Neonatal Society meeting (June 2016). She was honoured to be an invited speaker at the international 99NICU conference (2019) and Reason (2020).
She was proud to receive the "Best Paper by a Clinical Academic" award in 2019 at the Southampton and Health Research Conference. She has peer-reviewed several papers for publication for leading nursing and medical journals.
She also received funding from the Royal College of Nursing Professional Bursary scheme for her PhD work, which was also supported by the UK neonatal charity, BLISS.

Biography

Vicky qualified as a registered children’s nurse from King’s College University, London. Post- qualifying, she specialised in neonatal intensive care nursing. Having developed a passion for neonatal care and advancing nursing practice, she undertook Masters-level training to qualify as an Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. She continued to develop her senior nursing role as an ANNP, taking a lead role on ward rounds and high-risk resuscitations. She also worked as part of the local retrieval service. She is an independent prescriber and has undertaken non-medical authorisation of blood products training.

With a continued drive to improve the quality and safety of neonatal care, she undertook a PhD focusing upon the implementation of complex interventions to reduce neonatal central-line associated infections.

She now works primarily as a Principal Teaching Fellow on the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Neonatal) pathway, as a module lead for Advanced Neonatal Studies and Prescribing in Clinical Practice, as well as a group facilitator for the Research Methods for Evidence Based Practice module. She also teaches on a variety of aspects of advanced nursing practice.

In addition, she has recently been seconded to provide external expert consultancy work, including assisting in strategic-level neonatal service improvement and expert witness work.

She is a member of the NIHR neonatal clinical studies group, and actively engages in peer review of research papers for publication. She is also involved in reviewing local research ethics applications.

She is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (06I1202E) and with the Higher Education Academy with recognition of Fellow status (PR124939).

You can listen to Vicky discussing the past, present, and future of advanced neonatal clinical practice alongside two fellow ANNPs, on the Two Paeds in a Pod podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/user-663288011/episode-76-advanced-neonatal-nurse-practitioners
You can watch the 99NICU conference presentation on neonatal CLABSIs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTSBexNNimk&t=2s

Dr Vicky Payne

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