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A registered nurse with 36 years of experience, my early career was spent working in Glasgow in general intensive care before heading to Canada to work in a urology unit. On returning to Scotland my career continued to be centred in acute care including cardiac intensive care, cardiothoracic and cardiology. Following a return from working in Dublin I was a charge nurse then deputy manager of a 51 bedded nursing home. During this time I began to ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø my knowledge of dementia and person centred care which was greatly enhanced by becoming a dementia care mapper. I moved from my role as a deputy manager into the training role for the care home company which included 14 homes across Scotland caring for older people and people with learning disabilities.Ìý

I have worked across public and private sectors latterly working within a local authority as the Learning and Development Practitioner for adult services supporting social care staff to ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø their existing skills to manage the increasingly complex care situations they face in practice. My main role was to support mandatory training programmes including medication administration/policy, moving and handling and palliative care. Latterly I was involved in supporting senior care staff to learn how to undertake vital signs and in team ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍøment activities.ÌýÌýÌý

I have continued to be an enthusiastic learner and promote life long learning at any given opportunity! The MSc in Professional and Higher Education provided experience of a higher education learning environment, offered the opportunity to be involved in research and inspired me to join the nurse education team at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁϱ¬ÁϹÙÍø University.Ìý

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