Nick Allcock

Contact

• workRoom B55b Queen's Medical Centre
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 82 30891
• fax0115 82 30999
• nick.allcock@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Recent Research Supervisees

Pathma Subramanian: DHsci- Evaluation of the implementation of a Pain Care Bundle

Ibraheem Bashayreh: PhD- Cancer Pain Management a Jordanian Perspective

Teresa Shaw: DHSci- A Qualitative Descriptive Exploration of the Experiences of Practitioners Involved in Practice Development

Teaching Summary

Director of Postgraduate Studies for the School of Nursing Midwifery and Physiotherapy Module lead for Principles and Process of Comprehensive Systematic Review (B74 CSR) Module Lead for… read more

Research Summary

My main research interest is pain assessment and management in older people, current projects include:

NIHR RfPB funded study (£127,592) The FINOF(Femoral Nerve-Block Intervention in Neck Of Femur Fracture) Study

NIHR HSR funded study (£165,366) A meta-ethnography of patients' experience of non-malignant chronic pain

Recent Publications

• SUBRAMANIAN, P., ALLCOCK, N., JAMES, V. and LATHLEAN, J., 2011. Challenges faced by nurses in managing pain in a critical care setting. Journal of Clinical Nursing.
• ALLCOCK, N., FEENAN, K. and BANBURY, P., 2008. Experience of analgesic use in patients with low back pain. British Journal of Nursing. 17(19), 1215-8
• KUMAR, A. and ALLCOCK, N., 2008. Pain in older age. British Pain Society and Help the Aged London.
• ALLCOCK, N., ELKAN, R. and WILLIAMS, J., 2007. Patients referred to a pain management clinic: beliefs, expectations and priorities Journal of Advanced Nursing. 60(3), 248-256

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Admin Responsibilities

• Director of Postragraduate Studies
• Co-director of the Nottingham centre for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery a collaborating centre of the Joanna Briggs institute
• Member of the Schools Research and Knowledge transfer committee,

• Director of Postgraduate Studies for the School of Nursing Midwifery and Physiotherapy
• Module lead for Principles and Process of Comprehensive Systematic Review (B74 CSR)
• Module Lead for Mixed Methods in Health Research (B74MMR)
• Module lead for B72/3 PAA- Principles of Pain management in Adults and Evidence based Practice
• Lead for the Joanna Briggs \Comprehensive systematic Review Course.
• My main areas of teaching relate to pain assessment and management,pain assessment and management in older people, practice development and knowledge transfer and systematic review and mixed methods research.

Future Research

NIHR RfPB funded study exploring the use of pain assessment in cognitively impaired older adults in acute settings.

• SUBRAMANIAN, P., ALLCOCK, N., JAMES, V. and LATHLEAN, J., 2011. Challenges faced by nurses in managing pain in a critical care setting. Journal of Clinical Nursing.
• ALLCOCK, N., FEENAN, K. and BANBURY, P., 2008. Experience of analgesic use in patients with low back pain. British Journal of Nursing. 17(19), 1215-8
• KUMAR, A. and ALLCOCK, N., 2008. Pain in older age. British Pain Society and Help the Aged London.
• ALLCOCK, N., ELKAN, R. and WILLIAMS, J., 2007. Patients referred to a pain management clinic: beliefs, expectations and priorities Journal of Advanced Nursing. 60(3), 248-256
• ALLCOCK, N, 2006. Pain management in primary care - What is it going? Practice Nurse. 30(10), 37-41
• ALLCOCK, N., 2005. Pain: the future for the management of pain in primary care Practice Nurse. VOL 30(NUMB 10), 37-41
• ALLCOCK, N. and TOFT, C., 2003. Student nurses' attitudes to pain relieving drugs International Journal of Nursing Studies. 40(2), 125-131
• ALLCOCK, N. and TOWELL, T., 2003. An audit of acupuncture top-up treatments 34(Spring 2003), 3-6
• ALLCOCK, N., 2003. Some recent writing related to pain 35(Autumn 2003), 8-9
• ALLCOCK, NICK, 2003. A voice for nursing. Professional Nurse. 18(7), 407
• ALLCOCK, N., MCGARRY, J. and ELKAN, R., 2002. Management of pain in older people within the nursing home: a preliminary study Health and Social Care in the Community. 10(6), 464-471
• ALLCOCK, N. and STANDEN, P., 2001. Student nurses' experiences of caring for patients in pain International Journal of Nursing Studies. 38(3), 287-295
• WHARRAD, H. J., KENT, C., ALLCOCK, N. and WOOD, B., 2001. A comparison of CAL with a conventional method of delivery of cell biology to undergraduate nursing students using an experimental design Nurse Education Today. 21(7), 579-588
• WHARRAD, H., KENT, C., ALLCOCK, N. and WOOD, B., 2000. Development and evaluation of a series of CAL modules on cell biology for undergraduate nursing students British Journal of Educational Technology. VOL 31(PART 3), 257-260
• ALLCOCK, N, 2000. Physiological rationale for early pain management. Professional Nurse. 15(6), 395-7
• ALLCOCK, N. and STANDEN, P.J., 1999. The effect of student nurses' experiences over the Common Foundation Programme on their inferences of suffering International Journal of Nursing Studies. 36(1), 65-72
• ALLCOCK, N, 1996. The use of different research methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of programmes to improve the care of patients in postoperative pain. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 23(1), 32-8
• RAFFERTY,A.M., ALLCOCK,N. and LATHLEAN,J., 1996. The theory/practice 'gap': taking issue with the issue. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 23(4), 685-691
• ALLCOCK,N., 1996. Factors affecting the assessment of post-operative pain: a literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 24(6), 1144-1151
• WHARRAD, H J, ALLCOCK, N and MEAL, A G, 1995. The use of posters in the teaching of biological sciences on an undergraduate nursing course. Nurse Education Today. 15(5), 370-4