Karen Chandler
Postgraduate Researcher
School of Education
About me:
I am an Associate Professor for Practice Learning at Kingston & St George's University, London. I am a qualified nurse educator responsible for facilitating a positive learning experience for student nurses and mentors in clinical practice. My research interests are professional socialisation in nursing, political changes in nurse education, and designing nurse education to ensure future education programmes produce competent, compassionate professionals to meet highly complex health environments.
Research Project:
My thesis intends to explore the factors that contribute to young students ability to recognise and report incivility towards patients.
Research Wider Research Interests:
Simulation in nurse education
Professional Socialisation in nursing
Professional/research experience:
MSc Interprofessional Health- Attrition in Pre-Registration Nurse Education.
OCR- The A Level Reform 2012, Cambridge Technical Qualifications 2015.
Aim Higher 2007-Present. Addressing the widening participation policy to promote students from lower social classes and ethnic minorities to enter Higher Education.
Education:
January 2016 January 9999
MSc Interprofessional Health, Canterbury Christchurch University, Kent 2005.
Post Graduate Diploma (NMC Recordable Teaching Qualification) University of Greenwich, London 2007
January 2016 January 9999
Pre-Registration Nurse Education
Nursing the Acutely Ill Child- Pre-registration- Module Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Co-ordination (level 5 & 6)
Supporting Learning and Assessment In Clinical Practice- Pre- Registration Nurse Education (level 5)
Biological Health- Pre-Registration teaching (level 4,5)
Paramedic Science- Recognition of the Acutely Ill/Injured Child and related acute childhood illnesses. Teaching (level 6)
Academic Skills-Level 4,5,6,7
Post Registration Nurse Education
High Dependency Care in Children (level 6)
Care of the Acutely Ill/Injured Child- (previously ENB 415) (level 6)- King’s College University, University of Greenwich, London South Bank University.
Care of the Child in the Recovery Room- Work based Learning- Evelina Children’s Hospital (level 6).
Accident Emergency Nursing in Children- King’s College University, London (Level 5,6)
Caring for the pre-term/sick newborn - (Previously ENB 405)- King’s College University, London (Level 5,6)
Mentorship Post Registration Nursing, University of Greenwich, London, Kingston & St George’s University (Level 6,7)
Band 1-4 Teaching and Learning in Practice- Care of the Deteriorating Child
Professional Development:
2015-07-03
Conferences/Symposiums-Higher Education Academy
Higher Education Academy 2015, Senior Fellowship, London.
The use of simulation in designing pre-registration nurse education.
2013-07-03
Conferences/Symposiums-International Simulation Conference San Francisco
The use of simulation to develop core skills in pre-registration nurse education.
