I am a Senior Lecturer and Module Leader on the Masters of Adult Nursing and Masters of Mental Health Nursing courses at the University of Wolverhampton. I have experience in curriculum revalidation, curriculum design, teaching, learning and assessment design using a variety of pedagogies.  

The Modules I lead have a focus on clinical nursing skills, Anatomy and Physiology, nursing assessment and care planning and Medical and Legal issues relevant to healthcare and practice modules. I supervise research students at Masters level. I am a Doctoral Student in my final year (write up) and teach on research modules. I have served on the Faculty Research Ethics Committee board and have research interests in nursing ethics. My Doctoral work is focused upon Moral Distress in Pre-Registration Nurses, and I am using Q Methodology to explore this area.

Moral Distress

Health Care Ethics 

Q Methodology 

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Nursing and Midwifery Council: Registered Nurse (Adult).

Nursing and Midwifery Council: Teacher

Royal College of Nursing

Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) (currently write up) due completion 2024/25

Post Graduate Certiifcate Higher Education and Professional Practice                               

Masters of Law (Medical Law) with Distinction

Donor Translant Coordinator Programme - NHS Blood and Transplant

Post Grad Diploma: Health Care Ethics and Law

General Intensive Care Course (ENB 100)

Diploma in Higher Education (Nursing)                                                                                                                  

Timmins R (2024) Student nurses experiences of moral distress: A concept analysis, Journal of Advanced Nursing, DOI: 10.1111/jan.16370 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.16370

Timmins R (2022) University of Wolverhampton ARC 2022 conference (June 2022): Which student nurses experienced the most moral distress in a global pandemic (COVID 19) ? Conference: University of Wolverhampton Annual Research Conference June 2022

Timmins R, Sque M (2019) Radical actions to address UK organ shortage, enacting Iran’s paid donation programme: A discussion paper, Nursing Ethics, DOI: 10.1177/0969733019826362 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0969733019826362

My post graduate education, clinical skills and experience have been within the specialities of Critical Care, Organ Donation and Transplantation. I have had the opportunity to work on a variety of speciality and general Critical Care Units and worked as a Critical Care Outreach Nurse practitioner managing my own patient caseload and taking referrals of acutely and critically unwell patients from the Multidisciplinary team. I have also been a member of the Trust Medical Emergency Team and Advanced Life Support provider. I continue to work clinically on an ad hoc basis to enable my clinical practice skills to remain current and embrace the changing practices of the clinical practice areas.

As a Specialist Nurse-Organ Donation, my role enabled me to undertake complex communication skills with acutely bereaved families. I facilitated and coordinated multi organ retrievals for transplantation and liaised with multiple stakeholders. I developed infrastructure change within my Trust, to enable end of life choice’s to include organ and tissue donation. This involved policy implementation, Clinical Governance, continuous quality improvement and staff engagement initiatives.

I still participate in clinical practice in a large Tertiary centre Critical Care Unit which provides Cardiac surgery, Neuro surgery, Trauma/ Burns, General ICU, and Liver speciality critical care.

I am an external examiner at Kings College London for post graduate modules including Critical Care.

Research Gate Profile https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca-Timmins-2

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Moral Distress in Pre Registration Nursing.