Fulbourn
0845 196 5503
pauline.kingston@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications and memberships

• RGN
• DN (Specialist Practitioner)
• Nurse Prescriber
• Msc., Psycho-social Palliative Care (Southampton University)
• PG.Cert.med.ed

• Board Member (RCN Eastern region)
• RCN Palliative Nurses Forum (former Chair)

Additional post-qualification education:

• Management and leadership in Health Care (NHS Modernisation Agency)
• Advanced clinical assessment
• Care of dying patients and families
• Political Leadership programme (RCN Institute)
• Clinical effectiveness & Governance through clinical supervision (RCN Institute)

Courses

• Module leader: Preparation for Professional practice (M level)
• Module tutor: Advanced professional decision making (M level)
• Module tutor: Mentorship & Work-based learning
• Personal tutor: Pre-registration nursing programmes (level 11,111 and 1V)

Outline of career

Pauline has had a varied and diverse career working at senior grades in teaching hospitals and community settings in central London, rural Cambridgeshire and the USA air-force. It has involved leading and managing teams of senior nurses and instrumental in setting up many new and innovative nurse-led services. The main focus of her career has been in oncology and palliative care.

For the past 12 years Pauline has been actively involved within the RCN and has helped shape and inform national policy for cancer and palliative care.

She is now working as a senior lecturer in adult nursing, her role includes teaching and supporting students at pre-registration and post-graduate level.

As Education Champion for Hinchingbrooke Hospital NHS Trust, Pauline help facilitate a dedicated team of senior lecturers to provide a seamless link between the University and practice areas. They work towards supporting students, mentors and staff, addressing day-to-day issues and working pro-actively to improve the student experience.

Research interest

Currently undertaking Phd studies, my research focus is exploring the experiences of newly qualified nurses working as staff nurses on general medical and surgical wards: have they been prepared adequately for contemporary nursing practice?

• Peer reviewer for Nurse Researcher
• External examiner for: Stirling University (Scotland) and Glyndwyr University (Wales)

Selected Publications

Kingston, P. 2000. 'Palliative Care'. Primary Health Care journal: Vol.10:5
Kingston P. 2002. 'Final duty'. Nursing Standard. Vol.17:4, p104
Richards, M., Sinnott, C., Kingston, P., 2004. 'Oral Transmucosal fentanyl citrate: management of
breakthrough pain in cancer'. Palliative Medicine. 18; 698-704

Conference Presentations

2008 RCN Discharge Planning Forum - Transfer of care
2004 Royal Soc. Medicine - Moving boundaries
2004 RCN - Hospital ''no place to die''.
2004 RCN Congress, Choices
2003 RCN Cancer Conference - A journey through cancer
2003 RCN Palliative Care Conference- inequalities in palliative care
2002 Palliative Care Conference - Pain management in palliative care
2001 York Cancer conference - Palliative care access