Advanced Clinical Practice in Nursing

EDITORS Frank Coffey is Course Director of the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice at the University of Nottingham and a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Queen s Medical Centre, Nottingham. He has been involved in nurse practitioner training since 1994. He developed and is medical lead for the emergency nurse practitioner service at the QMC. He has published in the nursing and medical literature and presented at international and national conferences. He developed the first externally accredited simulated patient training course in the UK. He is co-editor of an Oxford Handbook of Nursing Clinical Skills which is to be published in 2007. He is an examiner for the Fellowship of the College Emergency Medicine and contributes questions and OSCE cases for College and Undergraduate exams. Joan Livesley is Programme Leader for the MSc Advanced Practice (Health and Social Care) at the University of Salford and a senior lecturer (child health) in the School of Nursing. She has been involved in Post Graduate education since 1999, contributing to the development of core modules on the Master of Research programme before she led the MSc Collaborative Health Care programme. She was appointed as programme leader for the MSc AP in September 2005 and has led a team of colleagues in the development of applied M level work-based assessment methods acknowledged as innovative and creative by the current external examiner. She has recently acted as an expert reviewer for the Degree/MSc work based learning programme at the University of Ulster and has been appointed as the external examiner for the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice at the University of Nottingham. She currently leads one of 2 UK teams of Learning Facilitators, appointed to broker and quality assures work based assessment at M level. She has presented at many national and international conferences, has published several papers in academic journals and has recently co-authored a chapter - integrating research into clinical decisions in the Evidence Based Practice Manual for Nurses (Elsevier - in press 2006). She reviews for the Nurse Education Today, Journal of Clinical Nursing and Journal of Child Health, and is an external research reviewer for the Welsh Office for Research and Development (Word). She is in the 4th year of her PhD working with children to improve safety in hospital. Frances Gascoigne is a lecturer in biological sciences at the University of Salford. She has been a lecturer in the School of Nursing since 1994 and developed several applied modules linking the biological sciences to clinical practice. She has published in the applied physiology literature and presented at international conferences.