Joanne McPeake 250 Joanne McPeake, a double Graduate from the Nursing and Healthcare School and Staff Nurse in Intensive Care at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, has been awarded a prestigious Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship for 2011.  This fellowship, worth £4,500, will be used to travel to Intensive Care Units in the USA.   Joanne will visit Houston, Salt Lake City and Boston to analyse the role  of the social worker and alcohol and drug workers in Intensive Care.   Joanne will also observe advanced methods of early mobilisation in the critical care arena.  

Dr. Anna  O'Neill, MSc Programme Director and Deputy Head of Nursing & Health Care School, said:

"I have know Joanne for a period of four years in my capacity as MSc programme director at the University of Glasgow.   She is in full-time clinical practice as a nurse and following her initial honours qualification she self-funded her postgraduate study, an MSc.  She won both of our prizes for her studies (most outstanding student and best dissertation). Her work has been so valuable that as a result of her research she has changed clinical practice, she is demonstrating professional and academic leadership.

"Outwith her clinical working hours, in her own time, she delivers three Masters level critical care courses within the university. She is both an outstanding role model for other students and a mentor for both undergraduate and postgraduate specialist nurses.  Her professional credibility is unquestioned and her caring approaches and dedication to holistic patient care  are first class, earning her well deserved respect across professional groups  in acute care and intensive care.

"Joanne has  demonstrated a passion for education, research and the enhancement of patient  care and she is highly regarded for this consistent professional approach.   She has driven herself to achieve and maintain high  standards professionally and pivotal to this is her ability to demonstrate  transferability of skills from theory to practice whilst supervising and  managing others with diplomacy and insight.  

"The opportunity for Joanne to visit the  centres of excellence she has selected means that she will be able to transfer knowledge from the USA to inform care and practice in the UK.   Joanne will be able to  witness and experience, first hand, care delivery in action, whilst building a  sustainable network of support for her return to the UK.  Joanne has  developed a professional interest in alcohol rehabilitation related intensive care admission and readmission, a much under researched area and  underdeveloped area of practice.  Given current priorities and initiatives around rehabilitation, intensive care and alcohol consumption this  s a timely initiative.  Joanne has developed a research proposal for a PhD she is planning to undertake to further contribute to the knowledge base and her fellowship would enable this  future work to be underpinned by  the knowledge and experience gained.  Joanne has the capability to  maximise the learning from such an experience and the resourcefulness to apply  and disseminate her findings.  Overall this work has potential to enhance  quality of life whilst also reducing costs to the NHS in the UK. "  

 

First published: 18 March 2011

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