Valerie McNeela
Valerie is a Registered Children's Nurse and Registered NMC Teacher. She teaches a range of subjects on the Trainee Nursing Associate FdSc Apprenticeship programme and the BSc Pre-Registration Nursing programme. Valerie started her academic career here at UCLan in 2016 and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Valerie is the module leader for the first year theory module for Trainee Nursing Associates. She has a passion for making learning accessible and has introduced additional support to her module: to help all learners get the most out of their studies and facilitate their ongoing success, whatever their previous educational experiences.
Valerie completed her initial Registered Nurse training at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, in 1993, then completed a BSc (Hons) degree in Anatomy and Human Biology. She has worked at a number of specialist children’s hospitals across the UK and also worked as a scientist for a number of years.
Following a Return to Practice programme, and prior to joining us, her clinical experience was in children’s high dependency nursing and children’s clinical trials.
Valerie has co-authored a book with her colleague Julia Robinson: Children's Nursing Placements: Pocket Guides for Student Nurses (Lantern Publishing, 2019).
- Sick Children’s Nursing, Charles West School of Nursing Great Ormond Street, 1993
- Registered Sick Children’s Nurse, 1993
- BSc (Hons) Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Liverpool, 1997
- Return to Practice Nursing, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012
- Registered Nurse - Children, 2012
- Foundation in Paediatric Critical Care, 2013, University of Salford
- Post Graduate Certificate in Health and Social Care Education, 2019, University of Central Lancashire
- NMC Teacher, 2019
- FdSc Nursing Associate
- Society, Health and Nursing Associate Care
- Nursing Associate Practice 1
- Essentials of Nursing Associate Care
- BSc Nursing with Registered Nurse
- Nursing Practice 1
- Research and Innovation for Nursing Practice
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
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- Advance HE NET Conference, 2018
- Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference. 2018
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