Wendy Walker
Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Teaching Summary
Lecturer / BSc Programme leader Specialist area of teaching:
- Health care of older people
- Stroke care and prevention
- Theoretical foundations of advance nursing
- Clinical skills
Additional Teaching responsibilities
- Personal tutor responsibilities
- Independent Hospitals practice learning team member
- Health Care of the Elderly placement audit team member
- LBR dissertation supervisor
- Teaching and learning administration activities
Research Summary
2010 Co-applicant: Caring for frail or ill people on acute hospital wards. Alzheimer's Society
Project Grant (£198,075) Porock, D., Pollock, K, Walker, W.L. Harwood, R and Caswell, G.
Publications
Walker, W.L., Timmons, S. and Timmons, S. (2011) The Importance of identity in falls prevention. Nursing Older People 23 (2) 23-28
Carr, J. Heggarty, H. Carr, M. Fulwood, D. Goodwin, C., Walker, W.L Whittingham, K. (2010) Reflect for success: recommendations for managing students. British Journal of Community Nursing 15 (12) 594- 596
Walker, W.L. (2004) Promoting a safe environment for confused older people at risk from falling in hospital. Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing 8, 72-76
Walker, W.L (2004) Fall prevention in Primary Care Journal of Community Nursing 18 (4) 19- 22
- Trustee for Age Concern Derby and Derbyshire
- A member of the British Society of Gerontology
- A member of the Alzheimer's Society.
- A member of the Nottingham Stroke Research Strategy team.
Past Research
1999 MSc Action research project: Prevention is better than Cure: reducing in patient falls in Community Hospitals
2009 Doctoral study: An ethnographic study of older people and the meaning of falling: focusing on the older person's perspective
Future Research
2011 Co-applicant: Balance of Mind, second stage of funding bid. Programme Lead Professor John Gladman