Fellowship

On occasions, these fellowships are awarded to previous scholars of the Foundation. To become a Fellow, the nurse, midwife or health visitor must have undertaken a Florence Nightingale Scholarship, the result of which must have contributed to influencing the practice, education or management of patient or client care. This contribution must have had a national or international dimension. The individual's work must demonstrate a significant contribution to the continuing development of nursing and to the profession as a whole.

Many of the Fellows are prepared to act as mentors to scholars of the Florence Nightingale Foundation and can  be contacted for advice and support through the Foundation.

FELLOWS OF THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FOUNDATION.

PADMA BHAKTA

Padma Bhakta, who was an Enrolled Nurse at the time, was awarded a Florence Nightingale Scholarship in 1991 to study the attitudes of Asian women in the UK to breast self-examination and breast awareness.
She was awarded a BA (Hons) in Health Studies in 1994. In March 1995 she qualified as a Registered General Nurse and  will complete her studies for a doctorate by the end of this year (2001). Her doctorate looks at the perspective of minority ethnic carers in  using nursing services. It also looks at nurses experiences of caring for minority ethnic carers.
Her work has made a major contribution to the improved care of patients from ethnic minorities. Her research has not been merely a theoretical exercise but has arisen from her clinical work, has been applied to patient care and shared with her colleagues.
She is interested in acting as a mentor to scholars, particularly in the areas of ethnicity, disability and chronic illness.

GOSIA BRYKCZYNSKA

Gosia Brykczynska received an award from the Florence Nightingale Foundation in 1994. At that time she investigated, evaluated and reported on "The implications for nursing of the fall of centralised governments and Soviet ideology in selected European countries".
She has continued to make a significant contribution to nursing in the field of ethics, promotion of the humanities and work in the European field. She held the post of Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy at the Institute of Advanced Nursing, Royal College of Nursing.
She is now a freelance nurse educator, professional nursing advisor and international nursing and healthcare consultant. She is interested in acting as a mentor to scholars and has a wealth of knowledge on health issues in Eastern Europe.

DR PHILIP BURNARD

In 1987 Philip Burnard received a Florence Nightingale award to enable him to investigate "Ways in which experimental learning methods are used to develop interpersonal skills in nurses". He visited the USA and Canada.
Since then, he has continued to make an outstanding contribution to the development of the nursing profession as practitioner, teacher and researcher.
Dr Burnard was awarded his Fellowship while a Reader at the School of Nursing Studies, University of Wales College of Medicine, where he is now Vice Dean of Nursing Studies.
He is interested in mentoring scholars especially those in Wales.

VALERIE HOPKINS

Valerie Hopkins visited the USA in 1990, having received an award to investigate the case management and rehabilitation of people suffering from brain injury.
She continued to make a valuable contribution in this special area of nursing care and  set up the brain injury services in two different health districts.
She is a founder member of the British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers.
She is interested in mentoring scholars especially on the subject of  brain injury.

DR UMMANGA JOLLY.

Dr. Jolly was awarded a Florence Nightingale Scholarship in 1989 to study the implementation of clinical nursing audit systems in the USA and Canada and to gain insight into nurses’ views regarding their value. Her enthusiasm for the development of standards has led to improvements in the quality of care for patients and their families.
She holds the position of Quality Assurance and Standards Officer with North West Lancashire Health Authority.
Ummanga is interested in being a mentor to scholars. She has expertise in Clinical Governance, Date Protection, Caldicott  issues, Risk  Management, Qualitative Research, Ethnic Minority and Third World issues.

GARY JONES

Gary Jones was awarded a Florence Nightingale Scholarship in 1980 to study Accident & Emergency nursing in the USA.
During his career he has greatly influenced the advancement of A&E nursing, both nationally and internationally. He has written two books on the subject and contributed to many other publications.
Gary has a wealth of experience that he shares enthusiastically with others, to improve nursing care to often highly traumatised patients and their relatives.
He is a Nurse Consultant, Lecturer and Expert Witness and is Vice Chair of the Council of the Royal College of Nursing.
Gary would be pleased to act as mentor to Scholars especially those involved in projects in trauma , resuscitation, first aid, and legal and ethical issues in nursing.

LOUISE SILVERTON

Louise Silverton, who was awarded a Florence Nightingale Scholarship in 1988 to review Midwifery Education in the United States, qualified as a midwife teacher after practising as a clinical midwife. As Lecturer at University College, Swansea, she designed and established the first university-based programme for midwives. The Diploma in Advanced Midwifery - later becoming a Master's course - was dedicated to applying appropriate and relevant knowledge to delivering care to women.
Louise has represented her profession on the Welsh National Board, the UKCC Working Group for PREP and the Royal College of Midwives Council. She became Head of Maternal and Child Health at the Nightingale and Guy's College (1992-94) and was appointed Director of Education and Practice Development at the Royal College of Midwives in 1994. She is now Deputy General Secretary of the RCM.
She is interested in acting as a mentor to scholars especially in the fields of midwifery and education.


JEAN SWAFFIELD

Jean Swaffield was awarded a Florence Nightingale scholarship in 1986 to study "Motivation to continence" in the UK and the USA.
She made a central contribution to the development of continence as a specialist discipline within nursing. She promoted excellence in the delivery of continence care and, through education, advanced the study of continence.
Her work continued through academic publications, specialist texts and as a member of the editorial board of the Association of Continence Advisors Journal.
Since then, her career developed at the University of Northumbria as a Senior Lecturer in District Nursing and then as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, Department of Nursing Studies.
Currently, Jean is a Nurse Advisor at the Health Department of the Scottish Executive, with responsibility for Women, Children and Cancer Care.
Jean is interested in acting as a mentor to scholars, especially those resident in Scotland.

PROFESSOR DAVID THOMPSON

David Thompson was awarded a Florence Nightingale Scholarship in 1994. He undertook a study tour in the USA to examine the care and rehabilitation of cardiac patients and their families.
He has spent 20 years working in the field of coronary care nursing and cardiac rehabilitation. and has pioneered many clinical and research developments at local, national and international level. He has also developed, implemented and evaluated interventions that can be routinely delivered by cardiac nurses. He is the author of 10 books and has published over 150 papers on cardiac care.
He is at present Professor of Nursing at the University of York .

BRYAN WILSON

Bryan Wilson was awarded a Florence Nightingale Scholarship in 1983 to study "Speciality costing and budgeting" at centres in Britain and the USA.
Prior to leaving the NHS in 1996 to become an Independent Health Service Consultant, he was an Executive Director of a Health Authority and a Non-Executive Director of a Family Health Services Authority.  He has made a distinguished contribution in many areas of health care and the Fellowship was conferred to honour his contribution in the international field. He was a Johnson & Johnson/Wharton Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and has arranged many educational visits and exchanges for nurses from the UK to the USA and other countries.
He is a great ambassador for nursing, for his country and for the Foundation. He is interested in being a mentor to scholars.

ROBERT WRIGHT

In 1982 Robert Wright was awarded a Scholarship to research "The immediate management of sudden death and indications for follow-up counselling". At that time he was a senior Charge Nurse in the A&E Department of the Leeds General Infirmary, where he came into contact with people requiring such care.
He now holds the post of Crisis Nurse Specialist at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where he has applied the findings of his research.
The crisis intervention service based in the A&E Department at Leeds General Infirmary offers immediate emotional care and on-going counselling to patients and their families arriving after accidents, and to victims of trauma and crime. This service extends to children, individuals witnessing events and all emergency services and "care" personnel involved.
The crisis intervention service not only has extensive experience of this work within the hospital but also with other organisations. The emergency services, Army, Navy, Royal Air Force, banks and building societies (post raid work) and Social Services have used the service not only at the event but for training. Individual training packages can be produced for organisations as well as offering on-going training formats.

DAVID BENTON

 David was awarded a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholarship in 1990 to study "Improving standards of care by developing an environment, that supports nursing research and its utilisation in the USA."
 At the time of his scholarship he was a research nurse at the North East Essex Health Authority.   Between 1992 and 1996 he held Executive Director positions for Tower Hamlets and East London Health Authorities.   In 1995 he became Regional Nurse Director for Northern and Yorkshire Region and in 1998 was appointed Chief Executive Officer for the National Board for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors for Scotland.   On 1 October 2001 he took up a new post as Director of Nursing at Grampian University Hospital NHS Trust, Aberdeen.
 David is an excellent role model for nursing leadership and is prepared to act as mentor to scholars or those wishing to apply for a scholarship.