Emergency Department and Medical Assessment Unit.
Graham Patrick Jones MSc, BSc, PgCTLHE, RN (Adult) Senior Lecturer, Teesside University School of Health & Life Science.
Graham is a Senior Lecturer at Teesside University School of Health & Life Science and is currently studying for a Doctorate in Health and Social Care. Graham is also a trustee of ‘Transform Healthcare Cambodia’, a UK non‐profit‐making charity that supports the healthcare system in Cambodia by facilitating medical and nursing teams to undertake 2‐week clinical placements. In July 2019, two trainee nursing associates became the first to join a 20‐strong team working in Battambang Referral Hospital in Cambodia.
Lesley Jones RMN, PhD (Nursing), MSc Advanced Practice, MA Gerontology, PGCAP, FHEA Programme Lead (Nursing Associate Higher Apprenticeship), University of Salford, Greater Manchester
Lesley started her career in 1987 and was initially an Enrolled Nurse before completing a conversion course in the 1990s to become a Registered Mental Health Nurse. Lesley initially worked in acute adult mental health services before moving to work in older people’s mental health services, where she worked clinically for over 20 years. Lesley has held a number of clinical and leadership roles, including working as an advanced practitioner and non‐medical prescriber in NHS inpatient mental health wards for people with dementia. Lesley was awarded a National Institute of Health Research Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2013. Her PhD was clinically focused and explored the meaning, presentation and assessment of complexity in dementia within the setting of NHS dementia inpatient wards. Lesley’s interests include advanced dementia, understanding behaviour in dementia, end‐of‐life care and life story work. In 2018, Lesley moved to the University of Salford as a Nurse Lecturer on the TNA programme before becoming programme lead in 2020.
Hamish MacGregor RN, BA (Hons), MSc Director, Docklands Training Consultants Ltd.
Hamish started his nurse training in 1972, both in adult and psychiatric nursing. He later specialised in neurosurgical nursing, becoming a charge nurse in the area. He then went into nurse management with Lothian Health Board, and then Harrow Health Authority. In 1988, he joined the commissioning team of London Lighthouse, a palliative care facility for people with HIV and AIDS, first as Residential Services Manager then Assistant Director for Operational Services. In 1995, he moved into education, working part time, in order to develop his skills as a freelance trainer. At this time, Hamish developed an interest in moving and handling. In 1998, he worked part time, first in a community health trust and then in an acute health trust as a moving and handling advisor, as well as a freelance trainer for a range of organisations. In 2005, he set up Docklands Training Consultants, the company that provides moving and handling training and consultancy to healthcare and social care, universities and case managers for children and adults with complex needs. He is the author of Moving and Handling Patients at a Glance.
Louise McErlean RGN, BSc (Hons), MA (Herts), FHEA
Louise began her nursing career in Glasgow in 1986, qualifying as a staff nurse in 1989. She has worked in hospitals in Glasgow, Belfast and London, specialising in intensive care nursing. She has worked in nurse education since 2005. Louise has a wide range of nursing interests including general surgery, medicine and intensive care. She has an interest in simulation, anatomy and physiology.
Claire Pryor RN Adult MSc, BSc (Hons), FHEA, TCH Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
Claire Pryor is a senior lecturer in adult nursing at Northumbria University. Claire’s educational interests lie predominantly in nursing care for the older person, and she is the module lead for non‐medical prescribing. Her teaching activity spans both adult pre‐ and post‐registration professional development. Claire’s specialist areas of interest include delirium and delirium superimposed on dementia, which forms the basis of her PhD research, and integrating physical health and mental healthcare education and service provision. Prior to lecturing, Claire worked in a variety of primary and secondary care settings, including acute medical assessment, critical care, intermediate care and as an older persons’ nurse practitioner in a mental health setting.
Joanna Regan SEN, RN Head of Nursing for Emergency and Specialty Medicine (ESM)
Jo began her nursing career in 1985 at Leeds Teaching Hospital, becoming an enrolled nurse, working in acute and elective orthopaedics. She later undertook a conversion course at Bradford University, continuing her career in orthopaedics as a staff nurse and ward sister. Jo continued in her career at Leeds, working as a matron in a number of adult specialities, then as Head of Nursing in Cardio Respiratory, Neurosciences and now in ESM, including emergency departments, acute assessment, elderly, general medicine, infectious diseases, HIV and sexual health services. Jo is particularly interested in advancing the Quality Improvement in nursing practice, using the Leeds Improvement methodology. She also takes a keen interest in patient experience and public involvement.
Hazel Ridgers RN, Dip He Nursing, PGCAP, MA, FHEA Freelance Writer, Researcher and Lecturer in Nursing and Public Health
Hazel trained as a nurse with King's College, London, and took up her first staff nurse post in older people's care at Guys and St Thomas' in 2006. She developed an interest in the health and well‐being of older people living with HIV and undertook sexual health and HIV specialisation courses early in her nursing career. She has worked in HIV and sexual health as a nurse, research nurse and clinical teacher. Hazel began her career in education in 2010. She has worked as a clinical teacher both in acute hospital and university settings, and as a senior lecturer with a focus on clinical skills and simulated learning. Most recently, Hazel was the Programme Lead for the first Nursing Associate cohorts at the University of East London. Hazel is now a freelance writer, researcher and lecturer in Nursing and Public Health.
Ally Sanderson MA, PGCE LTHE, ECP, RN Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery Department, School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University
Ally is responsible for the preregistration skills (Year 2) module and works as part of a team within the optometry and midwifery department. Ally began her nursing career in Newcastle upon Tyne, Freeman Hospital School of Nursing in 1987, qualifying and beginning work on an ophthalmic ward at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. She has travelled during her nursing career and has worked in several specialist ophthalmic hospitals including Moorfield’s in London. Ally branched out into the role of emergency care Practitioner (ECP) and non‐medical prescriber in 2005, working in primary and acute care. In 2009, she moved to academia and has recently commenced her doctorate in professional practice.
Dominic Simpson BSc (Hons), RN(Adult), PGCLTHE, AFHEA Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and PhD Candidate, School of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University
Dominic is a registered adult nurse, having gained his degree at Northumbria University Newcastle. Dominic has held a number of clinical nursing roles across the North East of England, and his clinical expertise is within emergency medicine and critical care. His research interests focus on how to create cultures that promote safety and quality within the NHS. Dominic has previously been the simulation lead for Teesside Universities Nursing Associate Programme. Dominic
