Barbara Conway
Lecturer
Profile
Biography
Barbara has been a nurse for over 30 years working mainly in cardiovascular health and public health. She is currently seconded to the University of York as a lecturer/practitioner for two days a week whilst working as a cardiovascular specialist nurse in the community for the other three days.
Barbara qualified in 1984 from Freeman School of Nursing in Newcastle Upon Tyne. She worked on the cardiology ward and cardio-thoracic surgical wards at Freeman hospital for a number of years before spending eight years on the heart-lung transplant unit, completing her BSc in Health Sciences at Sunderland University during this time. She then worked as a health promotion facilitator in Teesside and completed her MSc in health Sciences (health promotion). Barbara spent a couple of years working as a project manager at Darlington Memorial hospital setting up waiting list initiatives before starting her current role in 2001. She developed the first community cardiac rehabilitation service in the country and manage's a team of nurses who case manage patients with all kinds of cardiac problems. Barbara completed my Doctorate in Nursing in 2012 and started working here at York in April 2014.
Publications
Selected publications
- Conway B (2011) British Journal of Cardiology prize for innovation in cardiac rehabilitation, British Journal of Cardiology Feb 2011, Vol 18, issue 1, 18:9-10
- Conway B, Ferguson D (2011) Cardiac rehabilitation: the nurses’ role. Independent Nurse, 19 Sep 2011; 28-29
- Conway B, Ferguson D (2011) The role of independent prescribers in a cardiac rehabilitation service. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, Aug 2011, Vol 4, issue 2; 3-6
- Conway B (2010) NHS Improvement Primary angioplasty and health information provision. www.improvement.nhs.uk/heart
- Conway B, Fuat A (2007) Recent advances in angina management; implications for nurses. Nursing Standard, Vol 21, No 38; May 30-June 5 2007
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Individual and public health pre-reg module – seminar leader
Postgraduate
- CHD online –module lead
- Heart failure: Care and Management – module lead
Other teaching
- Barbara teaches on the lifecycle module for medical students at Durham University
External activities
Memberships
- Barbara is on the NMC register as a Doctor of nursing and independent prescriber
Invited talks and conferences
- 2014 British association of cardiac rehabilitation conference (Londonderry) – NHS.NET referral system
- 2014 Northern cardiac network heart failure conference – heart failure rehabilitation
- 2012 British association of cardiac rehabilitation conference (Birmingham) – Independent prescribing and cardiac rehabilitation presentation
- 2010 British association of cardiac rehabilitation conference (Liverpool) – won prize for best oral presentation on thesis presentation
- 2010 American hypertension society conference (New York, USA) – Working memory and hypertension
- 2009 European cardiovascular society nurses conference (Manchester) – ‘Get fit for your op’
- 2007 European cardiovascular society nurses conference (Basle, Switzerland) – Angina management – the new paradigm