Nurse Management

Curriculum Vitae

Name Fiona Julie Hamer (nee Hardy)

Address **** ********** **** ********** ** 22306

Date of Birth 2nd December 1971

Professional Pin 92C0266E UK Nursing

Academic Qualifications

National Diploma in Health Studies NE Derbyshire College of Further Education 06/1990

Reflexology Diploma Nottingham UK 03/1996

BSc Hons Health and Social Care (3rd Class Hons) Open University Nottingham Campus UK

12/2002

BSc Cancer and Palliative Care Bucks New University Bucks UK 10/07/2008

Professional Qualification

Diploma in Nursing Mid Trent College of Nursing and Midwifery UK 03/1995

Professional Courses Completed

ENB 998 Teaching qualification Mid Trent College UK 03/1996

Neurosciences ENB148 Mid Trent College UK 12/1996

ENB 870 Research Mid Trent College UK 12/03/2002

ENB (A29) Learning through reflection on practice Mid Trent College UK 18/03/2002

Symptom Management in Palliative Care De Montford University Leicester UK 05/2004

Continuing Professional Development

Person Centred Care 24/01/02

LEO Programme 18/20 Feb 2003

Legal and Professional Accountability for healthcare professionals 21st Oct 2003

Communication 9 Deadliest Sins 19th Nov 2003

Nursing Innovations in Community Palliative Care 29th April 2004

Symptom Management 13th Aug 2004

Clinical Nurse Specialist Role as an educator August 2004

Research and evidence based practice 15th October 2004

Management of Breathlessness 17th September 2004

Integrated Care Pathway 18th November 2005

Management of the Cancer Patient with Pain 14th October 2005

Management of Constipation 16th September 2005

Advanced course in Pain and Symptom Management 21st-22nd June 2006

360 degree feedback course with Macmillan November 2005 to November 2006

Palliative Care emergencies July 2006

Advanced Communication Skills training for health care professionals July 2008

All Mandatory training up to date.

First Aide certificate 08/11/2010 taken in USA

CPR Certificate 08/12/2010 taken in USA

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Camp America June – September 1990 working with children in America, I worked as

an Auxiliary Nurse on a summer camp looking after children who were injured and helping

out the qualified nurses with routine insulin administrations and other medical based work

which the nurses needed help with at the camp.

• Heigera Housing Mickley, Derbyshire, England. September 1990- 1992 Working with

young adults in the community with Mental and physical disability. Aim of the project was to

allow people to live independently in the community and bring people out of institutions. The

project closed down with lack of funding so closed in 1992.

• LPNS Nursing Agency, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, England .1993-1995

Worked part time at this nursing agency whilst I was in University qualifying as a nurse. This

gave me valuable experience which I was able to use when I qualified in 1995.

• Neurology Department, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham,England. 1995-1998 This

was my first job as a qualified staff nurse. The ward consisted of neuro medicine and

neurosurgery where we cared for patients with spinal and head injuries as well as patients

with neuro medical diseases. This was a challenging post and I was promoted in 1997 to a

senior staff nurse giving me responsibility for other members of staff including writing the off

duty for the team and management responsibility for junior members of staff in my team. I

left this role in 1998 as I felt I wanted to expand my knowledge and further my career.

• Premier Prison Services HMP Lowdham Grange Nottingham England. 1996-1999 (sister

post) The post gave me much experience working as a nurse practitioner. The service was

nurse led where we triaged inmates and ran clinics including health promotion such as healthy

eating and stopping smoking, well man clinics such as asthma and diabetic. We also offered

pre and post test counselling for HIV and Hepatitis as well as dealing with medical and

psychological emergencies. I also worked alongside the medical officer and provided some

much needed teaching for both staff and inmates.

• Heanor Memorial Hospital, Heanor, Derbyshire, England.1998-2001 (Ward Sister) My

role here was as a ward manager running Community Hospital ward where we cared for

patients with lie limiting illnesses and the elderly who needed wound management, diabetic

care and general health checks and respite care for their families. This role gave me much

needed skills in Management of staff and mentoring staff as well as increasing my knowledge

and understanding of disease management and my introduction to Palliative Care which I

discovered was where I wanted to work.

• Coalville Community Hospital, Coalville, Leicestershire, England. 2001-2004 (Ward

Manager) This role was a promotion for me after working as a sister the transfer to

management where I was totally responsible for patients, staff, students and a budget was

huge. I enjoyed the challenge of developing myself professionally into a new role and the

challenge of working with staff recruiting, managing and developing them. The Ward mainly

cared for patients who were terminally ill and I enjoyed this work enormously, we worked

very closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialists and I knew whilst in this job this was what I

wanted to do. As a team we worked effectively and efficiently and the team was always an

enjoyable experience for me. We developed members of the team so that we could run

exercise classes on the ward and also changed part of the ward into a Palliative Care Suite so

that the patients’ relatives could stay at this very important time. This role developed me

enormously and enabled me to have the confidence and experience to apply for the Clinical

Nurse Specialist role.

• Hillingdon Primary Care Trust,Hillingdon,Uxbridge, England . 2004- July 2010 (

Clinical Nurse Specialist In Palliative Care). My role as a Clinical Nurse Specialist is vast.

I hold a caseload of patients all with Specialist Palliative Care needs who have complex needs

both symptomatically and psychologically. We work very closely with the Multi Disciplinary

team both in the Community and Hospital settings to ensure the patient and their family

receives the level of care and input they require to allow them to remain in their preferred

place of care (mainly home). We assess their needs and implement care and symptom

management where needed, I regularly assess the usefulness of any treatment implemented

liaising with the General Practitioner, Consultant in Palliative Care and the District Nursing

team to implement changes and monitor as needed. A large part of my role involves

Psychological care. I spend a lot of time talking with patients and relatives in their own home

this allows them to be open and express their needs and wishes which is important at this

trying time The basis of Palliative Care is to care for patients with an end of life disease and

provide adequate psychological support and symptom management for these patients and

their families in their preferred place of care (usually home). We work in a Multi Disciplinary

team to ensure good communication and, documentation takes place ensuring the patients’

journey is seamless. It is also important to consider Bereavement care and whilst I have been

in my role I have spent much time researching this and trying to improve the service we

offered in Hillingdon. We have been successful in doing this with no financial backup and

now our Clinical Psychology department linked with a Clinical Nurse Specialist run a weekly

clinic which enables families to get immediate support and information which is vital at this

time. Whilst in this role I have completed an audit into preferred place of care and we have

altered the way we work to improve the home death rates. I provide much teaching in the

Hillingdon area both to staff members, university students and the general public. We have

also implemented a support and training programme in all the local Nursing homes which

enables them to have the skills, knowledge and confidence to enable patients to die in the

home rather than in the hospital. This is being audited at this time but has already shown to be

working well. I also walked across the Sahara Desert In February 2010 for Macmillan Cancer

Relief raising £25,000 for the charity I worked for for 6 years. This was a lot of fun and I

worked hard to raise the money and organising this event and many more to raise the money

we needed.

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