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amanda.armstrong@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• Masters in Health Care Law and Ethics - University of Wales
• Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Dyslexia Diagnosis and Support (PG Dip in ADDS); Common Professional - Examination (CPE.) in Law - Nottingham Law School
• Postgraduate in Education, (PGCE) - Greenwich University
• Bachelor in Science (BSc Hons) in Psychology - York University
• Professional Qualifications: Adult Nursing, Non-medical Prescribing, Clinical assessment, ENB 100 Intensive care nursing, ENB136 Renal Nursing, ENB Diabetic Nursing

Courses

• Non medical prescribing
• Clinical assessment

Outline of career

Amanda trained as an adult nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1985 to 1988, after which she consolidated her training, by working as a Staff Nurse on an acute male orthopaedic ward.

She then went to York University to read Psychology and play sport mainly Rugby and Judo. After completion of her degree, she went to America to work as a nurse. In 1992, she returned to the UK, to work as a research sister in the renal department at The London Hospital in Whitechapel employed by the University of London for 6 years.

Amanda then entered nurse education at University College Suffolk, returned to clinical nursing as a consultant renal nurse and then back to nurse education firstly at London South Bank University (LSBU) and now at Anglia Ruskin University.

Research Interests

Amanda is particularly interested in the role of non-medical prescribing in advancing nursing.

Selected Publications

Armstrong, A. 2013 Practical tips for prescribing in renal impairment. Accepted by Nurse Prescribing to be published in April 2013

Armstrong, A. 2013 Nurse Prescribing in an Urgent Care Setting: A diagnostic analysis. Accepted by Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Armstrong, A. 2011 Legal Considerations for Nurse Prescribing. Nurse Prescribing, 9 (12) pp 603-609.

Ahuja, J. and Armstrong, A. 2012 Using the BNF. Nurse Prescribing, 10 (1) pp 38-42.