Dr Bill Whitehead

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Job title: Senior Lecturer (Nursing)

Email: w.whitehead@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 592133
Room: N212

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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

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

Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences

School: School of Health and Social Care

Subject Area: Nursing and Healthcare Practice

Programme Leader PG Cert in Interprofessional Practice Education

Module Leader for the final theory and practice modules in the Advanced Diploma in Nursing

Module Leader for Preceptorship module on the BSc online Top-up (nursing)

Teaching responsibilities

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

Professional interests

Education in the Clinical Environment; nursing preceptorship

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 Thesis findings at "Community of Practice" Royal Derby Hospital, 23rd Sept 2010.

Presentation of 'Is nursing an oppressed profession' at Issues In Professionalism Conference 5th July 2011

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"

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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