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0845 196 4821
amanda.drye@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• Registered General Nurse 1982
• ENB 100 (Intensive Care Nursing) 1990
• ENB 998 1990
• Specialist Community Public Health Nurse 1998
• Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing 2000, Stirling University, Inverness
• Inter-professional Healthcare education, NMC registered 2005
• Bsc (Hons) Health studies 1995 Roehampton Institute, Surrey University
• BA (Hons) Community Healthcare 1998 Northampton University
• PGCE Inter-professional Healthcare education, 2005, University Campus Suffolk
• MA Ethics, Politics and Public Policy, 2012 Essex University

Courses

• Course team member - Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
• Module leader: Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing
• Post graduate Medical and Healthcare Education-course team member for Practice teacher support
• Link tutor - Essex
• Educational Champion for SEPT from September 2013

Outline of career

Following 3 years of study in London, Amanda registered as an adult nurse and took up a post within trauma orthopaedics for a year followed by a position in intensive care for a further two years. A short break ensued, which included European travel and some agency work in the private sector following which a post as a Commissioned Officer in the Royal Air Force was achieved.

This period lasted for 6 years, during which time Amanda undertook cross-continental aeromedical evacuation (Ascension Island, The Falklands) service in Germany, Cyprus (briefly) and in the United Kingdom. The areas of expertise Amanda also gained in this period included Renal Intensive care, general intensive care and accident and emergency work.

On de-commissioning from the Royal Air force, Amanda worked in the Intensive care setting within the NHS in Norfolk and then Addenbrookes. Having relocated to Germany, Amanda gained a post as a Nurse practitioner/dispensing sister for the British Army in Germany. Following repatriation to England and some time working in a small, Cottage hospital day surgery unit in Melton Mowbray, the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse course of study was undertaken in Northamtonshire. This led to qualifying as a Health visitor and work in Peterborough, Inverness, and Norfolk.

In 2003 Amanda moved into the educational setting as a Senior lecturer/Practitioner managing the Non-medical Prescribing Programme at University Campus Suffolk. In 2010, she moved back into full time Practice as a practice educator/teacher and team leader support position in a socio-economically deprived area. In 2011 Amanda became directly involved in the East of England project to implement the 'Call for Action' Health Visiting Implementation. This eventually resulted in returning to the academic provision of the programme (SCPHN) in November 2012.

Research Interests

• Family violence
• Custom and practice in health visiting

Selected Publications

• Contents proposal review for 'the Handbook of Pharmacology' in 2008
• 200 word piece for Anglia Ruskin's 'Mentorship matters', 2013