About
A brief description of who you are and what you do.
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Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.
You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.
Research
Your current research, published research topics, projects and groups.
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Research groups
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Research interests
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Current research
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Describe your current research in 100 to 200 words. Write in the third person. Include broad key terms to help people discover your work, for example, “sustainability” or “fashion textiles”.
Research projects
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Publications
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Supervision
A list of your current and past PhD students.
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Teaching
Her teaching interests are centred around advanced clinical practice and neonatal care, in particular the MSc in Advanced Neonatal Clinical Practice programme where she is module lead for both Advanced Neonatal Studies and the Pharmacology and Prescribing in Practice module. She also facilitates neonatal learning groups for the Research Methods for Evidence Based Practice module and the Transition to Advanced Practice module, focusing on advanced practice, leadership and governance. In addition, she supervises MSc dissertation projects.
With a passion for neonatal education, she has also volunteered for the Newborns’ Vietnam educational programme teaching neonatal nurses and is also part of the 99NICU team-an international web-based platform for neonatal healthcare professional collaboration and education.
You can update your teaching description in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’ , select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select – ‘Teaching Interests’. Describe your teaching interests and your current responsibilities. Aim for 200 words maximum.
Courses and modules
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External roles and responsibilities
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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
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Prizes
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