Dr Bill Whitehead

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Job title: Assistant Head of Subject (Nursing)

Email: w.whitehead@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 592133
Room: N308c

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Latest news

Derby's Hospital Trust in award bid for the training of nurses http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Derby-s-Hospital-Trust-award-bid-training-nurses/story-18845699-detail/story.html#axzz2UzfTjy3p

Recent publications

Specialist Nurse Mentors in Nursing Times 28 November 2006
Will graduate entry free nursing from the shackles of class and gender oppression? in Nursing Times 1 June 2010

Does the risk of reprisal prevent nurses in the NHS from blowing the whistle on bad practice? in Nursing Times 2 November 2010

Are newly qualified nurses prepared for practice? in Nursing Times 17 May 2011

Treat nurses and doctors the same when it comes to whistleblowing in Nursing Times online edition 23 August, 2011 http://www.nursingtimes.net/treat-nurses-and-doctors-the-same-when-it-comes-to-whistleblowing/5033826.article
Google Scholar Profile: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=d5--E0YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

"Nurses should defy the deeply embedded doctor-nurse game" in Nursing Times 1 November 2011

Supporting newly qualified nurses in the UK: A systematic literature review, Nurse Education Today April 2013 http://www.nurseeducationtoday.com/article/S0260-6917(13)00010-5/abstract

Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences

School: School of Health and Social Care

Subject Area: Nursing and Healthcare Practice

Assistant subject head of nursing, with responsibility for pre-registration nursing and line management of half of the nurse lecturer team.
Module Leader for the final theory and practice modules in the Advanced Diploma in Nursing

Teaching responsibilities

Professional; ethics; leadership and managment; education; research; preceptorship.

Professional interests

Education in the Clinical Environment; nursing preceptorship, transititon from student to professional

Research interests

Clinical education in hospital practice settings; nursing preceptorship
Currently engaged in a nursing preceptorship research project with Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

Nursing and Midwifery Council
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Recent Conferences

Presentation of 'Is nursing an oppressed profession' at Issues In Professionalism Conference 5th July 2011
Presentation of preceptorship research findings at European Federation of Nurse Educators Conference 2012
http://derby.openrepository.com/derby/handle/10545/292596
Presentation of preceptorship research findings at RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2013

Additional Interests and Activities

External Moderator for University of Liverpool and University of Hull.

Media experience

Press release in Nursing Times 17 May Issue page 6 "Clinical Facilitators Boost Staff Retention"Judge on panel for Student Nursing Times Awards

Undergraduate qualifications

  • Registered General Nurse, UKCC ENB
  • BA (Hons) History and Politics, University of Nottingham

Postgraduate qualifications

  • Post-Graduate Certificate in Continuing Education, University of Nottingham

Research qualifications

  • PhD on the effects of clinical facilitator nurses on medical wards, University of Nottingham

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