The Perseverance Trust Nightingale Fellowship Lecture 2019.

Speaker:

Christine Norton PhD MA RN, Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, King’s College London

Christine Norton is a Registered Nurse who has specialised in helping people with incontinence for over 30 years. Her last clinical post was as Nurse Consultant (Bowel Control) at St Mark’s Hospital in Harrow.

Her research concentrates on improving symptoms and quality of life in people with chronic bowel conditions. She leads an NIHR programme on managing fatigue, pain and incontinence in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Other research includes managing constipation, management of neurogenic bowel symptoms and nurse-led interventions for incontinence. She was chair of the NICE guideline on faecal incontinence and has published extensively in a range of nursing and medical journals. She is also passionate about helping nurses to develop as clinical academics.

 

Abstract:

Care needs do not come much more basic than helping with bowel care. Not the most glamourous of topics, but as nurses we are used to dealing with things nobody else wants to tackle, and bowel symptoms are hugely embarrassing for patients and difficult to talk about.

 

Professor Norton’s talk will demonstrate the difference nursing and nurses can make to patients and their care. Via the journey of one King’s nurse, Professor Norton will trace the development of knowledge about nursing management of bowel problems. From providing a clinical service for people with chronic bowel disorders to a major national research programme.

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There will be a drinks reception after the lecture in the FWB Restaurant.