Jane Hughes

Previously Practice Development Nurse / Children’s Services Management

I am a member of the Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) Child Health Research Network

• I was awarded a Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship and travelled to Australia to explore the training and education of nurses caring for children in emergency departments.
• I have worked with Veronica Swallow on a project to explore children and young people's views on Salivary Sampling after kidney transplantation
• I have undertaken research into “Parent’s experiences of Day surgery” a Diary study, recent publication in Journal of Child health care. Another recent study considered nurses estimates of children’s temperatures and their value in the assessment process. Previously I was involved in a large scale longitudinal study evaluating the changes involved in a reconfiguration of children’s services.
• An earlier study looked at Parental Participation in Neonatal care
• I undertook an MA in Applied Social Research at Manchester and have a continued interest in social research.
• My current interests lie in training and education for children's nursing, parental and children’s experience

Related interests include:

• Therapeutic Relationships
• Communication in health care
• Clinical skills teaching and Simulation

Keywords

• Children's Nurse Education
• Acute illness
• Day surgery
• Mental health & psychological wellbeing           

• Audit   
• Diaries
• Qualitative
• Surveys