Primarily teach into the third-year undergraduate course with the children’s and young people team. I also teach CPAD modules with a perioperative background.

Module Co-ordinator,

Level 6 - Complex and High Dependency of Infants, Children and Young People.

Level 6 - Perioperative Nursing Science,
Level 6 - Perioperative Nursing Management.
Level 6 - Safe Medicate

Teach onto:
Level 6 - Developing Leadership and Professionalism,
Level 6 - Evidence Based Nursing for Quality Improvement,
Level 6 - Inter-Professional Working,
Level 6 - Supporting Infants, Children, Young People & Families with Effective Transitions Across Services,
Level 6 - Applied Pharmacology for Nursing Practice.

I am a link lecturer to several clinical areas throughout the South Down/South Armagh region, including Daisy Hill Hospital and Southern Area Hospice Service in Newry.

I have a keen interest in the care delivery of anaesthetics in children and young people. Having 12 years of experience, caring for both adult and children within a busy rural theatre department, during both emergency and elective ENT, obstetric & gynaecology, general, community oral and dermatology surgery.

In 2018, my focus turned solely on the delivery of anaesthetics to children and young people and was the principal researcher for the Daisy Hill site undertaking the APAGBI (Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland) PEACHY (PErioperAtive CHildhood obesity) study.

Perioperative and Anaesthetic Care,

Post Anaesthetic Recovery Unit,

Paediatric Anaesthetics.

I am the National Specialist Interest Group Lead for Paediatrics at the Association of Perioperative Practice (AfPP).

I am on the editorial panel for the Journal of Perioperative Practice. 

External Examiner at the University of Northampton for BSc Child Nursing (CYP).