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Debbie Hatfield

Senior Lecturer

contact:
Nursing and Midwifery
Darley Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7UR

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 641102

Email: D.Hatfield@brighton.ac.uk

Teaching

  • Public health
  • Cancer care
  • Service user involvement
  • Clinical skills

Research interests

  • Service user and carer involvement
  • Prostate cancer and support for cancer service users
  • Flexible learning including accreditation of prior (experiential) learning (AP(E)L) and work-based learning (WBL)
  • Assessment and grading of practice

Current projects

  • How are you feeling? A stroke survivors' poetry project
  • Use of APL for pre-qualifying nursing programmes
  • Impact of a service-user DVD education resource for raising awareness and early detection of cancer and to encourage service user involvement

Profile

Debbie qualified as a registered nurse at The Royal London Hospital, Whitecahpel, UK and pursued a career in cardio-thoracic nursing, working in Southampton and Bristol. After 10 years clinical nursing she qualified as a nurse teacher and has held teaching and training posts in the NHS and higher education in Bristol, Eastbourne and Brighton.

Debbie has maintained a keen interest in flexible learning throughout her teaching career. She was the school's AP(E)L Co-ordinator for over six years until January 2012 and continues to advise and assess students seeking accreditation of prior learning.

Together with her brother she has run a prostate cancer support group since 2002 which is now part of the charity PCaSO Prostate Cancer Network. Debbie has been a member of the Sussex Cancer Network Partnership Group (service user and carer group) since 2008. It is through this work that she has developed a keen interest in service user involvement and public engagement.

Additional roles

Recent publications

Number of items: 5.

Hatfield, Debbie and Lovegrove, Jane (2012) The use of skills inventories to assess and grade practice: part 2 - evaluation of assessment strategy Nurse Education in Practice, 12 (3). pp. 133-138. ISSN 1471-5953

Lovegrove, Jane and Hatfield, Debbie (2011) The use of skills inventories to assess and grade practice: part 1 - design and implementation Nurse Education in Practice, 12 (3). pp. 127-132. ISSN 1471-5953

HATFIELD, DEBORAH (2011) Work related learning for acute pain management Pain News . pp. 37-38. ISSN 2050-4497

Hatfield, D (2007) Using a skills bank for work based learning Education and Training, 49 (3). pp. 236-249. ISSN 0040-0912

Lombardi, T., Lovegrove, J., Hatfield, D.A., Fuggle, S. and Ball, S.A. (2004) NVQs and practice assessment in a pre-registration course Nursing Standard, 18 (28). pp. 33-37. ISSN 0029-6570

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Conference presentations

2012, How are you feeling? A stroke survivors' poetry project. (Core Paper) Humanising healthcare education, Networking for Healthcare Education Conference (NET2012), Cambridge, 4–6 September 2012

2012 (co-presenter), Education for the non-specialist, patients and managers. (Masterclass) Acute Pain – Preventing Chronicity 23rd Study Day, The British Pain Society Learning in Pain Series, 24 January 2012

2011 (co-presenter), APL for the nursing profession. (Seminar) SEEC Professional Development Series, London Metropolitan University, 7 September 2011

2009 (co-presenter), More than Lip Service: SEARCH mini case study. (Themed Paper) Nurse Education Tomorrow Conference, Cambridge, 8–10 September 2009

2009 (co-presenter), Developing a ReQ™ Mark to engage the learning organisation. (Symposium) The role of the academic as a ReQ™ advisor, Nurse Education Tomorrow Conference, Cambridge, 8–10 September 2009

2008 (co-presenter), From the simple to the complex: creatively stretching the boundaries. Mainstreaming Credit: simple arithmetic or complex equation? SEEC Conference 2008, London, 19–20 June 2008