Paula Sloan

Contact

• workLincoln Education Centre
  Lincoln County Hospital
  Greetwell Road
  Lincoln
  LN2 5QY
  <UK
• work01522 848165
• fax01522 511709
• paula.sloan@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

My clinical background is based mainly within critical care and acute care nursing and I have held a number of posts in teaching hospitals and district general hospital settings. I qualified in 1986 and my first post was on a general surgical ward. Following this I moved into intensive/coronary care nursing and undertook the ENB 100 Adult Intensive Care Nursing Course in 1990 at Dudley Road Hospital Birmingham. I progressed up the career hierarchy to be come a Senior Sister in ICU at East Surrey Hospital Redhill and then took a joint post as Practice Development Facilitator for Critical Care for Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust/The NHS Modernisation Agency and The University of Surrey. The latter post included helping to establish a Critical Care Outreach Service and developing critical care education programmes within intensive care and for other departments/wards. I was also a clinical supervisor and a teacher for the ENB 100 equivalent course at the University of Surrey. I was an active member of the South Thames Critical Care Network and worked on many strategies, policies, procedures and programmes related to critical care and education. I completed a BSc( Hons) Biological Science and Health Care Studies and went on to complete a Masters In Clinical Studies and Education. I completed the Post Graduate Certificate in Education and gained NMC recognition as a Lecturer/Practice Educator in 2000. I was appointed to the University of Nottingham as a Lecturer in Adult Health in September 2002 and held the Cross School Convenor Role for the Pre-registration Nursing Critical Care Module for 5 years.

Expertise Summary

My main areas of expertise are within the critical care field and I have a particular interest in the development of acute assessment skills for nurses and other health care professionals. Portfolio development is also an area of expertise and I am a module leader for both Portfolio 1 and 2 modules in the Diploma/BSc in Nursing Course. I hold an honorary clinical contract with United Lincolnshire NHS Trust and also practice regularly within critical care at North Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust. I am an external advisor in critical care for several higher education institutions and am also a facilitator for several certified emergency care courses.

Teaching Summary

Module leader for Year 2 Module Portfolio 1 Module leader for Year 3 Care Delivery and Management 2: Semester 5 (Adult) Critical Care Trauma and Oncology and Semester 6 Management. Module leader… read more

• OSCE/Skills Co-ordinator
• Member of the PLT team leaders group
• Member of Year 3 Module Group
• Member of Portfolio Development Group
• Member of Acute Inpatient/Critical Care PLT ( Lincoln
• Co-chair LAST Group Lincoln Education Centre
• Inter-professional Learning Co-ordinator- Facilitator UON/ULHT/UOL

Other responsibilities

• Member of Advanced Life Support / ALERT Faculty ULHT.
• External Advisor ALERT/ALS/ILS
• Honorary contract Critical Care Specialist Nurse ULHT/NLG NHS Trusts

• Module leader for Year 2 Module Portfolio 1
• Module leader for Year 3 Care Delivery and Management 2: Semester 5 (Adult) Critical Care Trauma and Oncology and Semester 6 Management. Module leader for Portfolio 2
• Teach on above and Year 1 Nursing Skills and Concepts; Year 2 Care Delivery and Management 2; Accountable Practitioner; Year 3 Care Delivery and Management 2 ( Mental Health)
• Supervisor for LBR Critical Care pathway and for Pre-registration Evidence-based Practice Module.
• Preparation for midwives on adult placements
• Personal tutor.
• Clinical Skills leader/co-ordinator
• Clinical practice supervisor in critical care for pre-and post-registration students
• Lead for Inter-professional Learning Lincoln Centre