Senior Lecturer - Specialist Public Health Nursing / Health Visiting

I am an experienced Specialist Community Public Health Nurse – health visitor, and practice teacher, having worked in clinical practice locally for 25 years.

Having expanded my professional role with Independent and Supplementary Nurse Prescribing, I joined the teaching team at University, gradually stepping up to full time teaching.

I teach on a variety of community nursing courses, and I am passionate about supporting students to achieve, and progress in their chosen sphere of practice.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult) – Luton and Dunstable Hospital
• Registered Midwife (lapsed) – Luton and Dunstable Hospital
• National District Nursing Certificate – Hertfordshire
• Registered SCPHN – health visitor  – Stevenage College, Hertfordshire
• BSc (Hons) Health Care – University of Luton
• Community Nurse Prescribing – Buckinghamshire Chilterns University
• Nurse and Midwife Independent and Supplementary Prescribing – University of Bedfordshire
• Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice – University of Bedfordshire

Teaching Role

• Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – health visiting and school nursing
• Community Nurse Prescribing
• Nurse and Midwife Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
• Practice Teacher Preparation Course

Research Interests

• Post natal mental health
• Numeracy in nurse prescribing
• Early parenthood

Recent Research Projects

• Action research project – nursing numeracy
• Post-natal mental health in the South Asian population

Service to the Academic/Professional Community

• Member of the Community Practitioner and Health Visitor's Association
• Member of East of England Regional Education Group – working group to implement the Health Visitor Implementation Plan – Call to Action, to increase the numbers of health visitors in training and in practice.

Recent Conference Presentations

• Health Visiting – Luton and Dunstable Hospital League of Nurses, annual conference "Care 0-90"
• A Single Competency Framework for Non-medical Prescribing – Nurse Prescribing Special Interest Group, Luton and Dunstable Hospital

Contact Details

Christine Norgate
Senior Lecturer
Room 114
Putteridge Bury campus

T: +44 (0)1582 743841, ext. 3841
E: christine.norgate@beds.ac.uk