Staff profiles
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Cara Norwood
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Cara has had a dynamic and interesting career working in construction as a Quantity Surveyor with a Higher National Certificate in Building Studies, a role that took her all over the UK, working in challenging environments. In 2014, she began studying adult nursing, graduating with a 1 st Class Hons Degree Bachelor of...
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Joanna O’ Brien
Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Having completed her training in Ireland in 2015, Joanna began her career as a theatre practitioner across a variety of fields, eventually specialising in plastics and general surgery. Seeking a new challenge, Joanna then moved to critical care nursing and has worked across several specialist areas including liver and neuro...
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Gary O'Grady
Visiting Lecturer
Before joining the University, Gary worked for many years as a Senior Clinical Nurse in emergency care both in the Midlands and the North West of England. During this time, he developed particular expertise in the care of the acutely and critically ill patient, patients suffering from musculoskeletal trauma and the evolving...
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Claire Perkins
Senior Lecturer
Experienced nurse educator with a key interest in the the recognition and management of acute physiological deterioration. Also in the development of under graduate and post graduate nursing curricula.
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Francesca Renzicchi
Lecturer
Francesca graduated in Nursing in 2012, from the Faculty of “Medicina, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata” and moved to the UK one year after, where she has been practising in different hospital settings, from medical wards to admission, to Critical Care and research. Francesca's areas of interest and expertise cover general...
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Stephanie Reynolds
Senior Teaching Fellow
Stephanie Reynolds is a Registered General Nurse in Adult Nursing. Nursing and Midwifery Council registration also includes that of District Nurse, Nurse Prescriber and Nurse Teacher. She has experience in post qualifying professional development and pre-registration placement support, and is a fellow of the Higher Education...
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Heather Scripps
Senior Lecturer, and Course Lead for Return to Practice (Nursing)
Having qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1996 Heather spent two years in Newport and then Bristol working in Orthopaedics and then Cardiac Surgery (her favourite clinical job). In 1998, Heather joined the Army and became part of the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps as a Nursing Officer and had a fantastic 19 year...
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Nina Shamaris
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing
Nina is currently a Senior Lecturer in Adult nursing and her main module she leads on Leadership and Decision-Making/Research Based Leadership and Decision-Making Adult Nursing within the third/fourth year. She is passionate about teaching students to transfer skills from theory into practice and making that difference within...
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Jeena Shiju
Lecturer
Jeena Shiju Graduated in 1999 and has worked in surgical, Trauma and Orthopaedic areas. She has also worked in clinical education supporting and teaching students and staff (ranging from band 2 to senior staff and junior doctors) in both class and clinical practice. Jeena enjoys encouraging and supporting students in...
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Dion Smyth
Senior Lecturer (Cancer and Palliative Care)
Dion Smyth is a senior lecturer in cancer and palliative care, and teaches on both the undergraduate pre and post-registration curriculum and postgraduate courses. In the pre-registration BSc Nursing programme, Dion coordinates the module Nursing Practice 2, which addresses cancer, immunology, auto-immune conditions such as...