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Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing

I qualified as a registered nurse in 1994 having trained at a local school of nursing and studied at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Luton which then went on to become the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.

I spent 10 years working in Trauma and Orthopaedics at a local hospital, becoming junior ward sister and acting ward manager. From there I became the manual handling trainer for all staff within the Trust, including training student nurses from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ on placement there, eventually becoming both moving and handling/back care advisor and falls improvement lead for the hospital.

I started at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in June 2016 and am currently unit lead for Care Across the Lifespan in Adult Nursing in Year 1, Link Lecturer at Bedford Hospital and Site Co-ordinator for Adult Nursing at the Bedford Polhill campus.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult) – 1994
• DipHe (Nursing Studies) 1994 – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Luton
• ENB 941 Nursing Elderly People 1996
• ENB 219 Orthopaedic Nursing 1997
• BA (Health Care) 1997 – ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ of Luton
• ENB 998 Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice 1998
• Risk Assessors & Key Trainers (Handling & Safe Movement of Patients and Loads) 2004
• MSc (Back Care Management) 2013 – Loughborough ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
• IOSH Managing People Safely 2011
• Post Graduate Certificate of Teaching Higher Education (PGCTHE)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. (FHEA)

Teaching Expertise

Pre-registration Nursing

Publications

Slope, R. and Hopkinson, K. (2022) 'Caring for people with impaired mobility' in Neale, N., & Sale, J. (2022). Developing Practical Nursing Skills (5th ed.). Abingdon: Routeledge. pp513-56

Contact Details

E: katherine.hopkinson@beds.ac.uk