Aru Narayanasamy

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  Nottingham
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  UK
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Biography

Dr Aru Narayanasamy is Associate Professor of Nurse Education (Diversity teaching and learning). He holds the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship awarded by the UK Higher Education Academy for his outstanding work on spirituality and cultural diversity. He holds the following Qualifications: BA,,MSc,M.Phil, PhD, RGN,RMN, Cert Ed, FETC, Diploma in CBT, Diploma in Cognitive Coaching and FHEA. Presently he is carrying out nurse education research in teaching and learning, and spiritual and cultural care teaching at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham. He acts as Health Advisor/Consultant to various agencies. He is co-editor for the Open Nursing Journal. Aru has written widely in the area of spiritual and cultural dimensions of health care and nurse education. His pioneering work culminated in teaching innovations such as the ASSET (Actioning Spirituality and Spiritual Care Education and Training) and ACCESS (Transcultural) models. These models have been adapted in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Turkey. He is supervising post-graduate research in the area of spirituality, ethnic diversity and health and nurse education. He has developed extensive Web CT resources on diversity learning and teaching, and recently he has developed an educational game on spiritual journey for students. Aru is committee member of the steering group for European Network for Spirituality Research.

Expertise Summary

National Teaching Fellowship for Spirituality and Cultural Diversity Teaching and Learning Leadership.Diversity, Ethnicity and

Spirituality Teaching and Learning,

Evidence Based Practice

Qualitative research: Critical Incident Techniques, Action Research, Grounded Theory and Narrative Analysis

Staff/Professional Development

Cognitive Coaching

Managing Change

Diversity teaching and learning Web CT resource developer and facilitator

Teaching Summary

• Spirituality / Spiritual Care
• Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity & Spirituality
• Evidence Based Practice
• Qualitative Research.
• Staff Development & Management of Change

Research Summary

Impact of empirical studies of spirituality and culture on nurse education

Evaluation of an educational board game for spirituality teaching and learning (NTF Project).

Religious students' professional identity in nurse education (partly funded by NTF) with co-investigator Dr Stephen Timmons.

Nursing- a Transdisciplinary Discipline Education Research Project (School Funded) with Dr Stephen Timmons (lead), Dr Alison Edgely and Dr Andy Meal.

Recent Publications

• NARAYANASAMY,A, JURGEN, F, NARAYANASAMY,M, GUO, P, 2012. Diversity Project: Mapping of Diversity of Teaching and Learning in Nurse Education Curriculum Journal of Further and Higher Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0309877X2011.645464,
• 2012. Diversity in Caring. In: MCSHERRY, W, MCSHERRY, R & WATSON, R, ed., Care in Nursing: Principles, Values and Skills Oxford University Press.
• YANG, C.T, NARAYANASAMY, A,, CHANG, S.L, 2011. Transcultural spirituality: the spiritual journey of hospitalized patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan Journal of Advanced Nursing. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05747.x,
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 2011. Commentary on Chan N.F (2009) Factors affecting nursing staff in practising spiritual care.Journal of Clinical Nursing 19,2128-2136 Journal of Clinical Nursing. 914-915

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• Staff Development Officer, Division of Nursing

• Theme Leader (Ethnicity, Cultural Diversity and Spirituality)

Other responsibilities

Lead for Teaching and Learning Scholarship Special Interest Group

Practice Learning Team Member (Medicine & Rehabilitation), Nottingham City Hospital

Director of Equality, Diversity and Spirituality Hub

Research Supervision (Nurse Education, Spirituality, Culture and Ethnicity in Nursing/Health Care)

Past Research

Action Research: Formative Assessment and Feedback (HEFCE Teaching and Learning Funded Project with co-investigator Dr Derek Chambers

Diversity Project: Mapping diversity teaching and learning across undergraduate nursing curriculum (HEFCE Teaching Quality Enhancement Funding)

Recognising diversity and gender in nursing curriculum: the development of an innovative e-learning resource with Dr Julie McGarry, Chris Simpson and Charley Barke (Teaching and Learning Development Funded Project). October 2010-Sept 2011).

The Bearings of Empirical Studies of Spirituality and Cultural Care.

Future Research

European Spirituality Network Collaborative Research: A cross cultural investigation of student nurses and midwives' perception of spirituality and competence in delivering spiritual care, in collaboration with UK Universities: Aberdeen, Hull, Glamorgan, Staffordshire; European Universities: Malta, Netherland: Reformed University for Applied Social Sciences, Zwalle & Netherland, Ede Christian University, Ede; Norway: Haraldsplass Deaconess University College, Bergen; Betafen Deconal University College, Bergen, Dickonova University College, Oslo; Sweden: Sahlgrenska Haugesund University College, Haugesund; USA: Azusa Pacific University, Azusa CA. (2010-2013). Pilot study commenced with Nottingham as a partner.

• NARAYANASAMY,A, JURGEN, F, NARAYANASAMY,M, GUO, P, 2012. Diversity Project: Mapping of Diversity of Teaching and Learning in Nurse Education Curriculum Journal of Further and Higher Education. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0309877X2011.645464,
• 2012. Diversity in Caring. In: MCSHERRY, W, MCSHERRY, R & WATSON, R, ed., Care in Nursing: Principles, Values and Skills Oxford University Press.
• YANG, C.T, NARAYANASAMY, A,, CHANG, S.L, 2011. Transcultural spirituality: the spiritual journey of hospitalized patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan Journal of Advanced Nursing. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05747.x,
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 2011. Commentary on Chan N.F (2009) Factors affecting nursing staff in practising spiritual care.Journal of Clinical Nursing 19,2128-2136 Journal of Clinical Nursing. 914-915
• TIMMONS,S & NARAYANASAMY, A, 2011. How do religious people navigate a secular organisation? Religious nursing students in the UK NHS, Journal of Contemporary Religion.. 26(3), 451-465
• NARAYANASAMY,A and NARAYANASAMY,M, 2010. Spiritual journey board as an educational tool for teaching spirituality in higher education Discourse. 9(2),
• NIXON, A & NARAYANASAMY, A, 2010. An investigation into the spiritual needs of neuro-oncology patients from a patient’s perspective. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 19, 15-16
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 2010. Recognising Spiritual Needs. In: MCSHERRY,W and ROSS, eds., Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare Practice
• ELLIS, H.K & NARAYANASAMY, A, 2009. Spiritual Care: An investigation into the role of spirituality in nursing. British Journal of Nursing. 18(14), 886-890
• NARAYANASAMY,A and NARAYANASAMY,G, 2009. Spirituality. In: GATES and OWEN,B, eds., Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing
• NARAYANASAMY, A and NARAYANASAMY,G, 2009. Cultural,Religious, and Spiritual Impact. In: GATES, B and OWEN,B, eds., Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectural Disability Nursing
• CHAMBERS, D & NARAYANASAMY, A, 2009. A discourse and Foucauldian analysis of nurses health beliefs: implications for nurse education. Nurse Education Today. 28, 155-165
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 2008. Commentary: Approaching in the right spirit: Spirituality and hope in recovery from mental problem International Journal of Therapy. 15(6), 261-262
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 2008. Spirituality in Nurse Education: Personal Reflections. In: BLLDACHCHINO,D and ROSS, L, eds., Spirituality: The Human Dimensions in Care
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 2008. Commentary: Relationship of Hope and Spiritual Well-being Time since Diagnosis in Adloescents with Cancer Western Journal of Nursing Research.. (In Press.)
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 2007. Palliative Care and Spirituality and Spirituality.. Indian Journal of Palliative Care. 13(2), 32-41 (In Press.)
• NARAYANASAMY, A & NARAYANASAMY, M, 2007. Advancing staff development and progression in nursing. British Journal of Nursing. 16(7), 384-388
• NARAYANASAMY,A, ed., 2006. Spiritual Care and Transcultural Care Research Quay.
• NARAYANASAMY, A & NARAYANASAMY, J, 2006. Ayurvedic Medicine: An Introduction for Nurses. British Journal of Nursing. 15(21), 1185-1190.
• NARAYANASAMY,A and NARAYANASAMY,M, 2006. Health Promotion British Journal of Nursing. 15(10), 533-534 (In Press.)
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 2006. The impact of empirical studies of spirituality and cultural on nurse education. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 15, 1-12.
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 2005. Issues of Transcultural Care and Racism. Multicultural Nursing. 1(3), 32-33
• NARAYANASAMY, A & WHITE, E, 2005. A review of transcultural nursing. Nurse Education Today. 25, 102-111
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 2005. Psychological and Spiritual Support. In: NORMAN,R and CURROW,D, eds., Supportive care for Urology Patient Oxford.
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 2004. The puzzle of spirituality for nursing: a guide to practice assessment. British Journal of Nursing. 13(19), 1140-1144
• NARAYANASAMY A, CLISSETT, PARUMAL L, THOMPSON D, ANNASAMY S, EDGE R, 2004. Responses to the spiritual needs of older people. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 48(1), 6-16 (In Press.)
• NARAYANASAMY, A., 2004. Spiritual coping mechanisms in chronic illness: a qualitative study Journal of Clinical Nursing. VOL 13(NUMBER 1), 116-117
• NARAYANASAMY, 2004. Commentary: A Kaleidoscope of Understanding: spiritual nursing in a multi-faith society Journal of Advanced Nursing. 45(5), 457-464
• NARAYANASAMY, A., 2003. Nurses must start fighting for higher status as a profession British Journal of Nursing. VOL 12(NUMB 15), 893-896
• NARAYANASAMY, A., 2003. Transcultural nursing: how do nurses respond to cultural needs? British Journal of Nursing. VOL 12(NUMB 3), 185-198
• NARAYANASAMY, A., 2003. Book review: the spiritual dimension of ageing by MacKinlay E (2002) Nurse Education Today. 23(1), 76-77
• NARAYANASAMY, A., GATES, B. and SWINTON, J., 2002. Learning disability nurses' responses to spiritual needs of people with learning disability: an exploratory study British Journal of Nursing. 11(11), 948-957
• SWINTON, J. and NARAYANASAMY, A., 2002. Response to: `A critical view of spirituality and spiritual assessment' by P. Draper and W. McSherry Journal of Advanced Nursing. VOL 40(PART 2), 158-160
• NARAYANASAMY, A., 2002. The ACCESS model: a transcultural nursing practice framework British Journal of Nursing. VOL 11(NUMB 9), 643-650
• NARAYANASAMY, A., 2002. Spiritual coping mechanisms in chronically ill patients British Journal of Nursing. VOL 11(NUMB 22), 1461
• NARAYANASAMY, A., 2001. Spiritual care: a practical guide for nurses and health care practitioners 2.
• NARAYANASAMY, A. and OWENS, J., 2001. A critical incident study of nurses' responses to the spiritual needs of their patients Journal of Advanced Nursing. VOL 33(PART 4), 446-455
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 2000. Spiritual care and mental health competence. In: THOMPSON,T and MATHIAS,P, eds., Balliere Tindall.
• NARAYANASAMY,A and ANDREWS, A, 2000. Cultural impact of Islam on the future directions of nurse education. Nurse Education Today. 7(1), 57-64
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1999. A Review of Spirituality as applied to nursing International Journal of Nursing Studies. 36, 117-125 (In Press.)
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1999. ASSET: A model for spirituality and spiritual care education and training Nurse Education Today. 19, 274-285
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1999. Transcultural Mental Health Nursing 1 British Journal of Nursing. 8(11),
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1999. Learning Spirituality from a historical perspective. Nurse Education Today. 19, 386-395
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1999. Transcultural Mental Health Nursing 2, British Journal of Nursing. 8(12), 741-744
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1998. Spirituality. In: PICKERING, S & THOMPSON, J, ed., Promoting Positive Practice in Nursing Older People Bailliere Tindall.
• FRASER,D.M., MALLIK,M.A., COOPER,M.A., ASTON,L.S., NARAYANASAMY,A. and HALL,C.A, 1997. The Role of the Teacher / Lecturer in Practice: Results of a Collaborative Case Study Investigation in Midwifery and all Fields of Nursing. In: Advancing Research Conference Proceedings. 6
• NARAYANASAMY, 1997. Debate on graduate nurse British Journal of Nursing. 6(17), 104
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1997. Spiritual Dimensions of Learning Disabilities. In: GATES, R & BEACOCK, C, ed., Dimensions of Learning Disabilities Bailliere Tindall.
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1996. Spiritual Care of Chronically Ill Patients British Journal of Nursing. 5(7), 411-416
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1995. Research in Brief: Spiritual Care of Chronically Ill Patients Journal of Clinical Nursing. 4, 397-400
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1994. Spiritual Care and Mental Health Competence. In: THOMPSON, A & MATHIAS, P, ed., Mental Health and Disorder Bailliere Tindal.
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1994. Spirituality Journal of Mental Handicap Nursing Association. 11, 20-23
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1993. Nurses’ Awareness and Educational Preparation in Meeting their Patients Spiritual Needs Nurse Education Today. 13, 96-201
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1992. Measuring Effectiveness of Nursing Education Quay.
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1991. Spiritual Care: A practical Guide for Nurses Quay.
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1991. The Application of Performance Indicators in Nurse Education, Part One, Nurse Education Today. 11, 335-340
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1991. The Application of Performance Indicators in Nurse Education, Part Two Nurse Education Today. 11, 341-346
• NARAYANASAMY,A, 1990. Evaluation of the Budgeting Process in Nurse Education Nurse Education Today. 11, 245-252
• NARAYANASAMY, A, 1985. Evaluation of Nursing Assistant Curriculum Nurse Education Today. 5, 124-129