Rita Pfund

Contact

• workQueen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 82 30789
• rita.pfund@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Rita Pfund is a lecturer in Child Health with a particular interest in general child health issues, how children and young people adapt to adverse life events, palliative care of babies, children and young people, and the transition between children's adult services.

Teaching Summary

Module Convener: Palliative and End of Life Care from Birth to Maturity. Module Convener: MN 15 Nursing Skills for Children with Complex Health Needs Facilitate various theme days for year… read more

Research Summary

£11 000 (various sources) "R U listening?" - The integration of digital stories and learning resources from young people and their families in child health care education.

Participant in project 'Clay Transformations'. The £25,000, one-year project was one of two research projects to be chosen to receive support as part of an interdisciplinary, cross-faculty Arts, Humanities and Health Communication 'Sandpit' funding programme. It is an innovative research project based at the University of Nottingham which is set to investigate the therapeutic effects of working with clay in order to help disturbed teenagers deal with their feelings of anger, anxiety and depression. www.claytransformations.info

Recent Publications

• PFUND, R., 2011. Philosophical and epistemological aspects of children’s spirituality. In: BRYKCZYNSKA, G. AND SIMONS, J., ed., Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
• PFUND, R. AND FOWLER-KERRY, S., ed., 2010. Perspectives on palliative care for children and young people: a global discourse Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.
• PFUND, R., 2007. Palliative care nursing of children and young people Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.
• PFUND, R., 2005. Introducing computer-assisted learning to gain knowledge about child death and bereavement International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 11(4), 170 - 177

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• Role of Personal tutor to a number of students.
• Participate in administrative activities (such as shortlisting, interviewing, open days and mentor preparation).

Other responsibilities

• Member of Child PLT at QMC.
• PLT link for Children's Burn Unit, E17, Neonatal Unit and Child Development Centre at Nottingham City Hospital, Rainbows Children's and Young Adult Hospice in Loughborough.
• Member of the following groups:
• • Curriculum advisory Group (Child)
  • GNC and GEN Development Group (Child)
  • Learning Community Forum
  • Service Users and Carers Advisory Group
  • Child, Maternal and Sexual Health Research Group
  • Children and Childhood Network
  • Clay Transformations Research Group
  • Clinical Governance Committee Rainbows Children's and Young People's Hospice
  • East Midlands Children's Palliative Care Network

• Module Convener: Palliative and End of Life Care from Birth to Maturity.
• Module Convener: MN 15 Nursing Skills for Children with Complex Health Needs
• Facilitate various theme days for year two Child Branch.
• Contribute to year three Child Branch
• Contribute to GEN program
• Facilitate CFP group 'Foundations in evidence based practice'.
• Teach theme of 'Care of life-limited children and their families' across programs.

Past Research

2010: £25 000 Department of Health Education development funding to deliver e-learning module at Master's degree level 'Palliative and end of life care from birth to maturity' to 40 Health care professionals of a multi-professional background.

• PFUND, R., 2011. Philosophical and epistemological aspects of children’s spirituality. In: BRYKCZYNSKA, G. AND SIMONS, J., ed., Ethical and Philosophical Aspects of Nursing Children Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
• PFUND, R. AND FOWLER-KERRY, S., ed., 2010. Perspectives on palliative care for children and young people: a global discourse Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.
• PFUND, R., 2007. Palliative care nursing of children and young people Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford.
• PFUND, R., 2005. Introducing computer-assisted learning to gain knowledge about child death and bereavement International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 11(4), 170 - 177
• PFUND, R, DAWSON, P and FRANCIS, R. AND REES, B., 2004. Learning how to handle emotionally challenging situations: the context of effective reflection Nurse Education in Practice. 4(2), 107 -113
• PFUND, R., 2000. Book review: On the death of a child by Celia Hindmarsh Journal of Child Health Care. 4(4), 177
• PFUND, R., 2000. Nurturing a child’s spirituality Journal of Child Health Care. 4(4), 143 - 148
• CAWS, L. AND PFUND, R., 1999. Venepuncture and cannulation on infants and children Journal of Child Health Care. 3(2), 11 - 16
• PFUND, R., 1998. Children’s palliative care services - implications for everyone’s practice Paediatric Nursing. 10(4), 12 - 15
• SOUTH WEST THAMES PAEDIATRIC STANDARD GROUP, 1993. Standards for Paediatric Nursing Independent Publisher, London.