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Profiles
Professor Maureen Coombs
Professor in Clinical Nursing
School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences)
Role
Clinical academic nurse with expertise in end-of-life care and critical care.
Qualifications
BACKGROUND
During her extensive health care career, Maureen (Mo) has held senior clinical practice, service management and academic roles. Mo’s clinical practice with long term chronically critically ill patients has directed her research platform on end of life with a focus on developing compassionate family-centred care and developing workforce capacity in end-of life care for acute and critical care.
Mo has recently returned to the UK after holding the post of Professor in Clinical nursing (Critical Care) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (NZ). Her recent service to community includes: member of the Clinical Ethics Group at Wellington Regional Hospital (NZ); member of the Health Quality and Safety Commission’s Deteriorating Patient Programme Expert Advisory Group (NZ); and member of an international taskforce developing family-centred care guidelines for the Society of Critical Care Medicine (USA).
QUALIFICATIONS
Professional
General Nurse Professional Registration, New Zealand Nursing Council
Independent Nurse Prescriber, Nursing and midwifery Council
Registered Nurse Teacher, Nursing and Midwifery Council, UK
Intensive (100) and Coronary Care Nursing (124) courses, English National Board
Registered General Nurse, Nursing and Midwifery Council, UK
Educational Qualifications:
Post Graduate Certificate in Research Methods, Kings College University, London, UK
Diploma in Coaching, Institute of Management and Leadership, UK
PhD in Nursing Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK
MSc in Education, South Bank University, UK
BSc (Hons) Professional Studies in Nursing, Bournemouth University, UK
Professional membership
Royal College Nursing
British Association of Critical Care Nurses
New Zealand College of Nurses (2012-2018)
Professional membership
Royal College Nursing
British Association of Critical Care Nurses
New Zealand College of Nurses (2012-2018)
Roles on external bodies
PAST & PRESENT RESPONSIBILITIES
of Health Quality and Safety Commission Expert Advisory Group, Deteriorating Patient Programme, Wellington, NZ
Member of Expert Working Party, American Society of Critical Care Medicine on family centred practice.
Member of National Advanced Care Planning Co-operative, New Zealand
Editorial Board member: Australian Critical Care, Nursing in Critical Care
Peer research reviewer: NIHR UK, Marie Curie Cancer Care UK, Burdett for Nursing, HRC New Zealand, HRC Singapore
Peer academic reviewer: International Journal of Nursing Studies, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, Palliative Medicine
Teaching interests
Advanced health assessment
Advancing nursing practice and nursing roles
End of life care practices
Building research capability through Masters’ and doctoral supervision
Staff serving as external examiners
Examiner for PhD theses at the following Universities:
Auckland University of Technology, NZ
Massey University, NZ
University of Cape Town, South Africa
University of Auckland, NZ
University of Southampton, UK
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Bournemouth University, UK
Examiner PhD Salford University, UK
Research interests
Patient and family perceptions and experiences at end of life
End-of-life care practices and decision-making
Family-centred care in critical care
Transitions of care at end of life
Key publications are highlighted
Journals