Claire Kane

Principal Lecturer in Nursing and Portfolio Lead for Pre-registration Nursing

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As a registered nurse, I have experience of working in Emergency Medicine and Operating Theatres.

Prior to general nursing, I qualified as a dental nurse at Guy's Hospital, London where I worked in the Oral & Maxillo Facial Operating Theatre before working at the Royal Dental Hospital in Leicester Square, London.

Following on I trained as a medical photographer and was based at the London Hospital in Whitechapel.

I hold qualifications in Accident & Emergency Nursing, Advanced Life Support and Advanced Trauma Life Support Nursing.

Qualifications

  • MSc Advanced Nursing Practice - University of Bedfordshire
  • Post graduate diploma in Healthcare Leadership – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson NHS Leadership Academy/University of Birmingham and Manchester
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice - University of Bedfordshire
  • Medico-legal Skills course: Imperial College London
  • Advanced Trauma Nursing - ATNC.org.uk
  • Accident & Emergency Adult and Child - Oxford Brooks University
  • Advanced Life Support Resuscitation Council
  • BSc (Hons) Nursing

Teaching Expertise

  • I am a registered nurse teacher with the NMC.
  • During my teaching career, I have run units in both pre and post registration nursing.
  • As a Principal Lecturer and Portfolio Lead for pre-registration nursing, I offer academic leadership and support to the nursing team and am responsible for the delivery and standards of the BSc and MSc nursing courses.

Research Interests

  • Students with specific learning differences
  • Major trauma
  • Clinical Anatomy Teaching
  • Recent research Projects
  • Moral Distress in emergency nursing
  • Moral Distress in student nurses and midwives during the Covid-19 pandemic

Conference presentations

  • RCN Education Forum and Exhibition March 2015
  • Poster Title: Clinical Anatomy Teaching for Pre-registration Student Nurses
  • Developing Novice Mentors' Skills in Supporting Nursing and Midwifery Students with Specific Learning Differences in Practice: An Evaluation of a Learning Resource'. Netnap June 2012 4th International Nurse Education Conference
  • 'Educational Support for Student Nurses in Clinical Practice'. February 2010, RCN Education Forum Conference and Exhibition

Publications

  • Kane C, Wareing M, Rintakorpi E (2022) The psychological effects of working in the NHS during a pandemic on final-year students: part II, British Journal of Nursing, 31 (2). https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2022.31.2.96 
  • Kane C, Rintakorpi E, Wareing M, Hewson D (2021) The psychological effects of working in the NHS during a pandemic on final-year students: part 1, British Journal of Nursing, 30 (22), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.22.1303 
  • Kane, C. Whiting, D. McGrath, A. et al (2014) 'Ocular Injuries in People with Multiple Trauma'. Emergency Nurse. 22(3) 27-32
  • Black, S. Kane, C & Elworthy, G (2014) 'The complexities and challenges of introducing electronic Ongoing Achievement Records in the pre-registration nursing course using PebblePad and hand-held tablets'. Journal of Pedagogic Development 4 (1)
  • Black, S. Baillie, L & Kane, C (2013) 'Developing the skills to support nursing and midwifery students with specific learning differences in practice: an evaluation of a learning resource'. The Journal of Practice Teaching & Learning

Contact Details

Buckinghamshire campus
Mary Seacole House
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Aylesbury HP21 8AL
T: +44 (0)1296 734300

E: claire.kane@beds.ac.uk

 

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