Sarah Louise

Sarah Eades is a lecturer in our School of Nursing and Midwifery. She has had a long career in nursing - after qualifying in 1985, she worked in the acute sector, before taking roles within community and primary care in 1992, where she subsequently successfully completed a specialist practitioner BSc in community health nursing (nursing in the home- district nursing) and became an independent prescriber.

Sarah has subsequently had clinical experience in a variety of roles in primary care as a District Nurse, Practice Nurse and Sexual health Nurse. Sarah entered education in 2005 and has held a variety of posts in academia in both post registration and pre-registration nursing. She has an MA in medical ethics and law, and her dissertation centred on the ethics of a newborn screening programme for Fragile X. She has worked at a national level in the National Genetics and Genomics Education Centre working on programmes to embed genetics and genomics into health care professionals’ educational programmes.