Post on 26-Mar-2015
RCN Jobs Fair 2013
Fiona McGregorRN, SCPHN, BSc(Hons),
BA(Hons), BA, MA, PGDip (Ethics)GDL (Law)
RCN Jobs Fair 2013Specialist Nursing
Current Role
• Research Nurse: UCL Institute for Women’s Health
• Specialist Community Nurse: CNWL• Sexual Reproductive Health Services• Young people’s services (21 years and under)
Choice of specialty
• Difficult to predict trajectory
• I can tell you about my journey
• Key messages:
• Get experience everywhere
• Walk through those doors of opportunity
Specialising
• Specialising is about:• Experience• Experience• Experience
• It doesn’t necessarily mean in the field you intend to specialise
• Think about transferrable skills
• Select and take opportunities
My experience as registered and specialist nurse
Dates Posts
1981-2 General medical and surgical
1982-3 Genito-urinary-medicine
1983-1988
Gynaecology (wards – short & long stay adult and paediatric, oncology, theatre, outpatients, research, menopause clinic)
1988-1991
Specialist GUM with research
1991-1992
Occupational Health within Police Service
1989-….. Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health
1995-1998
Emergency Care/Occupational Health
Academic career•Dip OHN
•BSc (Hons) Health sciences
•PGDip Ethics
Experience (cont’d)1998-1999
Practice Nursing
1999-2002
GUM/Contraception Integrated Service
2002-2004
Palliative and Terminal Hospice Care
2004-2009 University Lecturer (Post registration contraception
and reproductive sexual health courses)
2009-2010
Career break to undertake Law degree
2011- Research (women’s and reproductive sexual health) and Young people’s SH service
TBC
•BA (Hons) Music/humanities
•MA Academic practice (Trevor Clay Scholarship)
•BA Open
•GDL Law conversion degree
•Mary Seacole Leadership Award
Specialist Nursing
• My perspective…….. (key issues)• To work in a specialist role there should be overall
groundedness and roundedness• It requires all the qualities of a nurse: Especially:
• The 6Cs
• A focus on the patient as central
• Accountability • Leading and leadership –
• Role model to others• Developing your role and developing your self• Championing the profession as an incredible career
What do I do all day?
• Multi-task!• Keep up to date and practice clinically, professionally
and academically• Work independently and as part of a team
• Motivate myself and others
• Network• Design studies/proposals• Applications (Grants, ethics, R&D)
• Recruit patients and follow through
• Mentor
• Locally (YP services, youth centre, University, SRH clinical areas)
• Nationally (Conferences, exhibitions, posters, presentations, articles, publications, meetings)
Mary Seacole and other awards
Examples
• Mary Seacole
• Florence Nightingale
• Queens Institute
• RCN
• Burdett Trust for Nursing• CHAIN [enquiries@chain-network.org.uk]
• National awards, open to all Nurses, Midwives, HVs
• 6 Awards per annum worth up to £12,500• Opportunity for career and self development• Improvement in outcomes for BME communities
through planning and undertaking a personally designed project
• Excellent research experience will follow on from this
• Applications start March/April
Finally...
• Don’t burn out/forget all the other important things in life.
• Good luck with your careers
• Please do contact me:
Fiona.mcgregor@nhs.net