Richard Pitt

Contact

• workRoom D 090 Division of Nursing & B 75b Medical School Queens Medical Centre,
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 8230970 8230498
• fax0115 8231211
• richard.pitt@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Currently I am Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy and Director of the Centre for Interprofessional Education and Learning at the University of Nottingham, Faculuty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Following a varied career expanding both adult and mental health nursing practice gaining clinical and managerial experience in the NHS. I have had extensive experience in curriculum design and development in undergraduate nursing within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences since moving into academia. During this time I have developed a passion for embedding Interprofessional Learning within undergraduate health and social care curricula within the University of Nottingham. Through this interest I have gained extensive experience in facilitating Interprofessional Learning Student Conferences and Interprofessional Learning sets. From these endeavours I was successful in 2008 in gaining the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences; Faculty of Science and Faculty of Law and Social Policy within the University of Nottingham funding of the Centre for Interprofessional Education and Learning [ www.nottingham.ac.uk/ciel] . The principal aim of CIEL is to embed IPL in the seven undergraduate programmes of Dietetics, Medicine, Midwifery, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Social Work.

I led the project group in the successful collaborative bid with Sheffield Hallam University for the TUILIP Project becoming the TUILIP Project Co-ordinator and gaining £560k funding form East Midlands SHA. More recently I have been successful in gaining funding from the Centre for Integrative Learning £5k to evaluate the Interprofessional Learning sets and a further £5k to develop student facilitators to facilitate first year learning sets. I have an extensive presentation portfolio presenting at national and international conferences on the development, implementation and evaluation of interprofessional learning. The Centre has hosted two National IPL conferences within the University of Nottingham. In 2009 I was elected to the CAIPE Board of Directors [ www.CAIPE.org.uk ] and am co editor of the CAIPE Bulletin.

Teaching Summary

Associate Professor in Interprofessional Learning Accountable Practitioner in Nursing Ethics, Law and Professionalism in health and social care practice Evidence Based… read more

Research Summary

Development and change in a Diploma in nursing course : influences on students learning; Interprofessional learning and evaluation of interprofessional learning in practice.

Recent Publications

• 2011. An evaluation of practice-based interprofessional education initiatives involving service users Journal of Interprofessional Care. 25(1), 46-52
• 2011. Piloting the use of an interprofessional stroke care learning package created by and for students Journal of Interprofessional Care. 25(4), 294-295
• 2010. A partnership approach to learning about accountability British Journal of Nursing. 19(11), 718-719
• 2009. Initial findings from the TUILIP (Trent Universities Interprofessional Learning in Practice) Project Journal of Interprofessional Care. 23(1), 101-103

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• Law, ethics and professionalism in health and social care
• Interprofossional Learning / Facilitating across Faculty
• Moving and Handling
• Practice Learning
• Enquiry Based Learning

Other responsibilities (e.g. practice connections)

• Director for Centre of Interprofessional Learning and Education (CIEL)
• Secretary; Law and Ethics Interest Group for Health and Social Care (LEIGHS)
• Musculo-skeletal and Neurosciences Practice Learning Team
• Musculo-skeletal and Neurosciences Audit Team
• Academic link with trauma /orthopaedic ward

• Associate Professor in Interprofessional Learning
• Accountable Practitioner in Nursing
• Ethics, Law and Professionalism in health and social care practice
• Evidence Based Practice
• Simulation and Case Scenarios
• Interprofessional Practice Learning

• 2011. An evaluation of practice-based interprofessional education initiatives involving service users Journal of Interprofessional Care. 25(1), 46-52
• 2011. Piloting the use of an interprofessional stroke care learning package created by and for students Journal of Interprofessional Care. 25(4), 294-295
• 2010. A partnership approach to learning about accountability British Journal of Nursing. 19(11), 718-719
• 2009. Initial findings from the TUILIP (Trent Universities Interprofessional Learning in Practice) Project Journal of Interprofessional Care. 23(1), 101-103
• ARMITAGE, H; CONNOLLY, J & PITT, R, 2008. Developing sustainable models of interprofessional learning in practice- The TUILIP Project Nurse Education in Practice. 8, 276-282
• PITT,R, 2005. Instance: Interprofessional Learning at the University of Nottingham. In: The Theory-Practice Relationship in Interprofessional Education,: Occasional Paper No.7 No.7. Higher Education Academy. 40-42