William Harvey Building
0845 196 4170
p.k.pym@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• General nursing training level 2
• Operating department Nursing
• Anaesthetic skills
• Registered Nurse level 1
• Introduction to management
• Development in nursing
• BTEC Counselling course( 5 modules)
• Tissue viability
• Burns and plastic
• Principles in Breast care
• BSc (hons) in Burns and Plastic surgery
• Manual Lymphatic Drainage training
• MSc in nursing

• BAPSN
• BBA
• Lets face it
• NATN
• Wounds UK

Courses

Module leader for CPD Burns and plastics surgery care programme:

• Acute burn and plastic surgery care.
• Rehabilitation and ongoing management of the burn or plastic surgery client.
• BSc Hons Acute care practice
• Pre Operative Assessment and care of cosmetic surgery client.
• Discharge planning and continuing care of the cosmetic surgery client

Module tutor

• Care of the patient in the surgical environment
• Contemporary issues in operating care
• Tissue viability selective subjects
• Burns and plastic surgery care programme
• Cosmetic surgery care journey
• Non surgical therapy intervention / maintenance aesthetic clients.
• Theatre practitioners course
• Pre reg patients surgical journey
• Pre reg wound healing and care
• IBL pre reg

Supervisor

• Pre reg undergraduate major project
• Post reg dissertation specialist practice

Outline of career

Following my training, my career commenced in the operating theatre. I worked in several units both in the National Health Service and private sector. Fundamentally, my roots are grounded with caring for patients within the operating theatre. But, it was whilst I was undertaking a theatre specialist practice programme, that I started being intrigued and fascinated with the whole philosophy and fundamental principles associated with holistic care of the burns, plastics,reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and patient care.

My passion drove me beyond the theatre doors and I began working within the acute care setting. Eventually gaining promotion to a clinical nurse specialist. That lead me to my current role as a lecturer practitioner today. Personal circumstances have allowed me to work as a private nurse within the private sector and NHS prevision, coupled with my academic role as a module leader and module tutor with Anglia Ruskin University. Over the past 9 years I continued to review, develop and validate programmes associated with Burns and plastics surgery within the current context of practice needs.

My journey so far has been turbulent at times, but fundamentally I am very proud and privileged to have met and worked with some influential professional within the multidisciplinary team and taught some aspiring nurses within the field.

Research Interest

• Scar management
• Problematic scars
• Flap monitoring
• Lymphatics as in course and affect
• Garments- support / pressure / compression
• Lasers assisted liposuction
• Psychological assessment of clients seeking cosmetic surgery. Expectations and satisfaction.
• Effects of inhaled fumes by practitioners in the burns admission room
• Breast reconstructive surgery
• Wounds- debridgement
• The role of the specialist nurse in preadmission.
• Clients guilt and transference to the practitioner
• Cosmetic surgery and travel search interest

* planning to start PHD in September on breast reconstruction and free flap monitoring.

clinical audits:

• Wound drains -clinical audits
• Mepore dressing and blisters clinical audit.

case study:

• Use of dermitex spray on donor sites.

Research projects:

• The significance of nipple/Areola tattooing following breast reconstruction.
• Integra on leg ulcer wounds pilot study

Evaluation study:

• Testing the Reliability and Validity of clinical wounds management tool ( ongoing)

Publications

Sandwich technique - Journal of wound care Scar management - British journal of nurses Scar management Valeant pharmaceutical journal