Biography

After qualifying as a Registered Nurse Adult Lisa worked in Intensive Care and then later Accident and Emergency.  Her career developed into Clinical Skills Education working with students and staff from all health professions before joining the University In February 2015.  She has worked in Practice development and Pre-registration nursing programmes.

Qualifications and memberships

  • Registered General Nurse Adult
  • Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Associate Member of the College of Paramedics
  • Advanced Life Support Instructor
  • BSc (Hons) Nursing Adult
  • MSc (Hons) Practice Development

Academic and research interests

Having been a Resuscitation Council UK Advanced Life support instructor, she has a special interest in Urgent and Emergency care, Sepsis care.  Since taking on her role as Principal Lecturer she is interested in Compassionate and transformative leadership.  As part of her MSc Practice development, she undertook a piece of primary research looking at Paramedics experience of education of breaking bad news.  Her future research plans are to extend this to other Healthcare professionals starting with Nurses. 

Publications

Smith L and Mee S (2017) Patient Advocacy: Breaking down barriers and challenging decisions. Nursing Times; 113: 1, 54-56.

Smith L (2017) Choosing between colloids and crystalloids for IV infusion. Nursing Times [online]; 113: 12, 20-23.

Recent external roles

External Examiner for Glasgow Caledonian University BSc(Hons) Nursing Practice and Continuing Professional Development programmes.