Bernice Baker RN, BA, PG Dip Business
Admin
"I am a freelance consultant nurse - I've been
self employed for 9 years - and my background is
A&E, Occupational Health, Nurse Practitioner
Roles and Education and teaching around telephone
consultation. I also teach about professional issues,
accountability and entrepreneurial awareness for
nurses. I have been involved with NHS Direct and
NHS 24 training and education and currently one
of my portfolio roles is as a Lecturer Practitioner
and Consultancy with IHCS at Bournemouth University.
I am passionately interested in nurses developing
e-health with a full multi-disciplinary systems
awareness of the possibilities - rather than being
victims of what is imposed. e-health is a wonderful
opportunity for us all - but we need to research
and develop it to its maximum potential to support
us, rather than being a tool which drives delivery."
Bernie Edwards
I have been
qualified as a nurse for over 25-years and currently
work as a Senior Lecturer for IHCS, Bournemouth
University. My clinical background is A&E however
over recent years my primary interest has expanded
to include all aspects of Open Access Health Care.
E-health presents a unique opportunity to re-engineer
the way our health care system is accessed by the
citizen and to provide a seamless journey through
it. It is imperative that as nurses we are actively
engaged in evolving a service that is truly client
led. I have just completed
my PhD which explored the process of nurse triage
both face-to-face and via the telephone. What this
research has shown is that geographical separation
from the client and electronic mediation fundamentally
alters the nature of the health professional-patient
relationship and that we cannot simply impose existing
models of practice onto these burgeoning clinical
arenas. Nurses are the ones who make it happen for
the client and I believe passionately that any system
of care involving nursing should be based on primary
nursing research that makes visible the health gains
only nurses can bring."
David Lane RGN DipN (Lond)
"I am a nurse with over 20 years experience
in clinical care, including ICU, CCU, medicine and
surgery. Most recently I spent 13 years managing
a Stroke Rehabilitation ward during the implementation
and further development of Winchester and Eastleigh
Healthcare (WEHT) NHS Trusts, Healthcare Information
System. I therefore have extensive first hand experience
using an integrated clinical system and moving a
ward from traditional paper to electronic multidisciplinary
documentation. My current role is Clinical Informatics
Manager at WEHT where I work with both the clinical
and technical communities to further progress our
clinical use of information technology. As a previous
Royal College of Nursing Advisor on Information
in Nursing and an active member of the Nursing Professions
Information Group I have worked with, and provided
nursing advice to, the NHS Information Authority
and more recently the National Programme for IT
(NPfIT). I firmly believe that full and proper use
of information and communication technology, as
an integral part of clinical practice, is essential
if health care professionals are to provide the
highest quality of clinical care and patient empowerment
in the modern NHS. Without seamless multidisciplinary
clinical records, which enable effective clinical
communication at the point of care, it is difficult
to see how the NHS can meet the demands of an ever
more complex healthcare system."
Lynda Sibson Nurse Consultant MSc RGN RSCN
"My nursing career has largely been in primary
care, as a Practice Nurse and latterly a Nurse Practitioner,
managing a nurse-led Minor Treatment Centre, focusing
on primary care, minor illness & injury management
that was supported by a telemedicine link. She subsequently
managed the Skin Cancer Screening Project in Plymouth.
This project formed the basis of her research for
her MSc dissertation of patient satisfaction and
perceptions with telemedicine as a model of screening
suspicious skin lesions. I currently works in 3
roles as a;
- Part-time Senior Lecturer at the University
of Hertfordshire
- Nurse Consultant with the Modernising HealthCare
Partnership
- Managing Director, Telemedicine Information
Exchange, Europe
Whilst only one 'job title' contains the word
nurse that is essentially how I perceive myself
professionally."
Marie Bryson
I have been nursing since the late 1970's and
my career spans over a variety of nursing posts
including working with social services in an elderly
mental infirm unit in Northern Ireland, practice
nursing in Germany with BAOR, and telephone consultation
and assessment in a variety of services; most
recently in my current role as a Nurse Advisor
with NHS Direct.
I have worked with computers since the early 1980's
and became involved with them in the 1990's when
the computer was introduced to the ward. I was
one of the few who tried to make it work! As I
am dyslexic I found that the word-processing programmes
a great help, but the ward software was not user
friendly more of a hindrance, as it was time consuming
and generated a great deal of data, none of which
was useful, for my role. However, it was potentially
a wonderful tool to support improvements in care
In 1996, I became injured and it was then that
I discovered how supportive a computer could be,
as the Internet operates 24/7! I was able to email
other work-injured nurses who understood my worries
(RCN WING Group) and found the whole experience
very therapeutic.
I have been active in the RCN since 1996 as a
Steward and Safety Rep and was one of the first
Learning Reps. I have always been an active member
of the Information in Nursing Forum (ING) and
was one of the original nurses to try and establish
an RCN e-Health Steering Group. I am currently
an RCN Steward and Safety Rep activist and represent
the Eastern Region for Essex, where I chair the
Eastern Regional Safety Reps committee and I am
vice chair of the Stewards committee. I am glad
that our eHealth Nurses Network is working in
parallel with the RCN ING, as I feel there is
a critical need for a strong professional nursing
voice at this time.
As stated earlier, I work at the NHS Direct and
have spoken out to try and get telephone consultation
recognised as a Field of Practice, in its own
right, within the RCN. My biggest passion is to
establish front line nurse communication with
soft/hardware designers in order to ensure that
they develop what we need, rather than them imposing
what they think we need.
Sandra Nolan RGN BA MA
Sandra.Nolan@lancashire.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
I am a qualified nurse of many years standing
and my clinical background is occupational health,
orthopaedics and rheumatolgy. For the last 10
years I have been heavily involved in education
of staff, nursing and non-nursing and currently
I am the Education and Professional Development
Co-ordinator at NHS Direct North West Coast .
My involvement with e-health is primarily through
the telconsultations carried out at NHS Direct
and I am supportive of all health care professional
who have to take queries and questions from the
public and patients over the telephone, and who
often have to make judgements without the supportive
recording systems or interactive recordable protocols
and guidelines. I am also heavily involved in
distance learning and using videoconferencing
for learning, as many of the NHS Direct nurses
are working at remote sites. I am a member of
the following RCN Forums: The Information in Nursing
Forum, WING, and The Education Forum.
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