30 at 30: 30 and 50 years of exceptional contribution
July 23, 2021
Just over five years ago I found my way to the University of Nottingham, attracted by knowing great friends and nurse colleagues at the university. I am honoured to hold a chair with the School of Health Sciences and I hope too my friends and colleagues from the School of Medicine see me as an honorary colleague. As a nurse who has spent a long career working in …
30 at 30: Nicola Fisher’s story
June 25, 2021
Transforming healthcare is accomplished in many ways, but a corner stone is the education of future professionals. I am currently sitting in a café in Bristol, having just completed my annual review for the second year of my PhD. While savouring this brief spell of down time, I have been reflecting on my journey so …
30 at 30: ‘The best way to predict your future is to create it’
During my career as a nurse, I have encountered numerous registered nurses working both on and off the wards who believe that nurses do not require a degree to be what they define as a ‘good’ nurse. On the contrary, they believe changing nursing into a Higher Education course will produce the opposite. The move …
30 at 30: Diversity in the NHS
Why diversity is good in the NHS As an alumni member and international nurse, myself working at NUH for the past 22 years, I feel my story/experience can help attract and invigorate other health care professionals within the NHS. I have enjoyed an international career, initially training in Africa as a Registered General Nurse (RGN) …
30 at 30: Vaccinating Nottingham: Healthcare students and staff working together
Once the pandemic hit, I was keen to contribute to the national nursing effort. However, as an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and parent of young children I instead had to struggle with home schooling and continuing my academic work. Like everyone, I needed to adapt quickly to a totally new way of …
30 at 30: My six-year nursing rollercoaster through a worldwide pandemic and near-death experience to registration
May 28, 2021
Growing up, I wanted to become a lifeguard. I spent every Saturday at my local swimming bath and all evening watching Baywatch over and over imagining what it would be like to actually save someone’s life and how rewarding this would be to me. It wasn’t until I met a true gentleman (who, at the time, believed in me more than I …
30 at 30: Celebrating Nursing at Nottingham
May 14, 2021
This year we celebrate 30 years of nurse training at University of Nottingham, although I have been working at NUH since before then. I started as a Staff Nurse in 1989 and have seen quite a few changes. My education as a student nurse began in 1984 through the apprenticeship-style scheme. We worked as auxiliary nurses and learnt ‘on the job’; I remember wearing hats, belts, buckles, and hospital badges. Thankfully, the hats …
30 at 30: The career of Anna Kent
May 10, 2021
Working within international humanitarian medical aid became a life goal of mine as I grew up. As many of us are, I was appalled to learn of the social and health inequalities across the world and wanted to make a positive difference. In 1999, aged 18, I was privileged to join one of the first …
30 at 30: Thoughts on Nursing at Nottingham from Dame Elizabeth Fradd DBE DL
April 30, 2021
I am delighted to write this short piece as part of the 30-year Celebration of Nursing at Nottingham University. It has been a privilege to observe, and at times participate in, the development of Nursing Education which has blossomed since its move from the Hospital–based School of Nursing to the University. I am sure the success of the established Department of Nursing Studies already in the University, headed up by Jane Robertson, acted as a sound …
30 at 30: The Year of the Nurse and Midwife in a Covid Age
April 23, 2021
When 2020 was named The Year of the Nurse and Midwife, I was working as the Director of Education and Student Experience within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham and we were celebrating 30 years of nursing at Nottingham. I finished the year working as Head of School of Nursing, Allied …
