Becky Chady

Contact

• workRoom C53
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 82 30875
• becky.chady@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Becky is an experienced registered nurse who has worked in a range of health care settings since qualifying from Nottingham School of Nursing in 1981. Particular focus of nursing care has been in a range of end of life care settings which include working with Marie Curie Cancer Care as a community team leader, Sue Ryder in-patient care and NHS specialist palliative care.

Expertise Summary

Palliative and End of Life Care: contemporary policy initiatives, international perspectives,

Ethical decision making in end of life care

Communication and breaking bad (significant) news

Recognising dying and managing last days of life

Teaching Summary

Pathway leader for BSc Health Care Studies (Palliative Care) Pathway leader for MSc Health and Social Care (Palliative and End of LIfe Care) Module Convenor for Learning Beyond Registration… read more

Research Summary

Becky is currently leading a project to evaluate a range of end of life care learning events being delivered across the East Midlands regions. This project is sponsored by the East Midlands SHA and… read more

Recent Publications

• CHADY B, BROADHURST D, FAULL CHRISTINA, 2010. Evaluation Toolkit: assessing outcomes of end of life care learning events East Midlands Cancer Network. Available at: <http://www.mylearningspace.me.uk/>
• 2007. An interpretive exploration of challenges to change in a specialist palliative care environment University of Nottingham.

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• Chair of the Palliative and End of Life Care Advisory Group
• Member of MSc (health Care Studies) Advisory Group
• Member of MSc palliative and end of life studies curriculum committee
• Member of Cancer and Associated Specialities PLT
• Member of Medicine Education Audit team
• PLT representative for Woodborough Road Hospice, Nottingham and Hayward House Specialist Palliative Care, City Campus, NUH
• External Examiner Palliative and End of Life pre-registration, BSc and MSc pathways University of Central Lancashire

• Pathway leader for BSc Health Care Studies (Palliative Care)
• Pathway leader for MSc Health and Social Care (Palliative and End of LIfe Care)
• Module Convenor for Learning Beyond Registration modules: Principles of Palliative and End of Life Care; Policy (level 3 and 4) Ethics and Psychosocial Perspecitves in Palliative and End of Life Care (level 4); Pain and Symptom Management (level 3 and 4); Loss, Grief and Bereavement (level 4 and 4)

Current Research

Becky is currently leading a project to evaluate a range of end of life care learning events being delivered across the East Midlands regions. This project is sponsored by the East Midlands SHA and the National End of Life Care Programme. The Evaluation Tools have been published at http://www.mylearningspace.me.uk/ and are currently being tested using a mixed methods approach.

Becky is also working as part of the Sue Ryder Care Centre research team on a multinational project 'Care in last days of lie: perspectives on decision making'.

• CHADY B, BROADHURST D, FAULL CHRISTINA, 2010. Evaluation Toolkit: assessing outcomes of end of life care learning events East Midlands Cancer Network. Available at: <http://www.mylearningspace.me.uk/>
• 2007. An interpretive exploration of challenges to change in a specialist palliative care environment University of Nottingham.