Catherine Vass
Lecturer & Research in Health of Older People, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Biography
Previous appointments in the last 10 years
04/2010 - present. Lecturer in Adult Nursing, Research in Healthcare of Older People. School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy. University of Nottingham.
09/2008 - 09/2011. Research Fellow, Health Care of the Older Person, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
04/2009 - 04/2010. Special Lecturer in Rehabilitation and Ageing, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nottingham.
8/2005 - 11/2007. Divisional Manager and Divisional Nurse; Diagnostics & Clinical Support. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
06/2002 - 08/2005. Assistant Director of Nursing; Research and Quality. Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust.
Teaching Summary
MNurSci Adult Branch:
Module 15 Nursing Skills II (module leader)
Module 16 Policy and Practice for older People (module leader)
MNurSci Shared Branch
Module 18 Effective Inter-professional Working (module leader)
BSc & Diploma:
Accountable Practitioner (Group leader)
Research Summary
Current Research:
REducing Falls in In-patieNt Elderly (REFINE); a pragmatic, parallel arm, randomized controlled single intervention trial of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors to reduce in-patient falls, in high risk older patients.
Fear of falling after low trauma fracture in middle aged adults - a prevalence study.
The FINOF (Femoral Nerve-Block Intervention in Neck Of Femur Fracture) Study. RCT.
Visual Acuity in Older People
Hydration in the Elderly
Activity in Elderly in-patients
Topics of research interest:
Healthcare of the Older Person - particularly acute inpatient care
Falls prevention (interventions, practice changes, vision, footware, environment)
Dementia and agitation in acute care - nursing management of, interventions to reduce…
Activity of older inpatients
Rehabilitation after hip fracture - pain, mobility
Fear of falling in middle age / osteoporosis sufferers (effect on QOL, interventions to improve)
Recent Publications
VASS, C.D., SAHOTA, O., DRUMMOND, A., KENDRICK, D., GLADMAN, J., SACH, T., AVIS, M. and GRAINGE, M., 2009. REFINE (Reducing Falls in In-patient Elderly)--a randomised controlled trial. Trials. 10, 83 VASS C.D, 2005. The SHA role in driving forward and steering Essence of Care. (Invited Speaker). In: Nursing Times. Driving Forward Essence of Care, London..
VASS C.D and BRANDER J, 2004. A randomised cross-over study to compare Ethyl Chloride spray and subcutaneous Lignocaine when used as local anaesthetic prior to cannulation of arteriovenous fistulas and grafts in adult haemodialysis patients. In: Royal College of Nursing, International Research Conference.
VASS C.D, CARGILL A and CROCKER C, 2004. A scoping exercise to assess research capacity and training needs of hospital Nursing staff In: Royal College of Nursing, International Research Conference.