I am a dedicated Nurse who is passionate about education, teaching and learning . I have been engaged with teaching, mentoring, and strengthening links between nurse education and practice over the last 21 years. As service lead for Organ Donation and Transplantation, I have developed educational initiatives to improve service delivery. I have held visiting lecturer positions and are now a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Module Leader.

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 and supported the COVID 19 pandemic as an academic and as a clinical practitioner. 

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 am in the last years of my doctoral research (EdD) which is focused on Moral Distress using a mixed methods approach. My reserach intends to explore the effectiveness of educational initiatives to reduce and manage moral distress in health care professionals. 

Organ Donation and Transplantation

Medical ethics and law

Moral Distress

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Higher Education Academy (HEA)

• Doctor of Education (EdD) - in progress
• PG Cert  HE & PP - 2017                                  
• Masters of Law (Medical Law) - 2014                                       
• Post Grad Diploma: Health Care Ethics and Law - 2006
• General Intensive Care Course (ENB 100) - 2003
• Diploma in Higher Education (Nursing) - 2000

Professional Qualifications and Registrations 

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Nursing and Midwifery Council: Registered Nurse (Adult)
• Royal College of Nursing
• Advanced Life Support
• Donor Transplant Coordinator Course (NHS Blood and Transplant)

Timmins R, Sque M, (2019)Radical actions to address UK organ shortage, enacting Iran's paid donation programme: A discussion paper.  Nursing Ethics (online Feb 21st 2019).

Conference Presentations

Annual Organ Donation Conference 2013 Warwick University: Should the Human Tissue Act 2004 be amended to allow an ethical and legally regulated voluntary, controlled market for live kidney donation?

Annual Organ Donation Congress, Warwick University 2016: Engaging with our community to develop and uphold positive attitudes to Organ Donation in Dudley

Visiting Lecturer - University of Wolverhampton - January 2016-September 2016

Specialist Nurse - Organ Donation (NHS Blood and Transplant), including Special Visiting Lecturing - 2009-2016

Critical Care Outreach Practitioner and Sister Critical Care. Critical - 2004-2009

Senior Staff Nurse Critical Care: Heart of England NHS Foundation - 2003

Staff Nurse Critical Care: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust - 2000-2004