Jodie Coulson
Senior Lecturer in Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation
Profile
Biography
Jodie was a Specialist Nurse and independent prescriber in Sexual Health and Contraception. She then practised as a Specialist Nurse in Medicines Management. Jodie is Deputy Lead for our Independent and Supplementary Prescribing programme. Jodie is also Deputy lead for our MSc Nursing programme. She teaches Medicines Optimisation and pharmacology across a number of our programmes including the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing programme, MSc in Nursing, BSc in Nursing, and the Nursing Associate apprenticeship programme. Jodie is particularly interested in genomics and pharmacogenomics and is currently studying for a PhD in Genomics in Nurse Education. As part of her studies, Jodie designed and delivered a CPD programme for registered nurses and nursing faculty.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Ancient World Studies
- BSc In Health and Social Care Practice
- Professional Certificate in Family Planning
- Non-medical Prescribing V300
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
Jodie has also completed a module in pharmacology with Harvard Medical School and is a Fellow of the HEA.
Departmental roles
- Chair Peer Support for Teaching working group
- Member of Fitness to Practise committee
- Member of the Service User and Carer Involvement (SUCI) committee
Teaching
Undergraduate
Jodie is a Stage One seminar lead on our BSc in Nursing Programme, for the Biological and Pharmacological Aspects of Health and Wellbeing module. She teaches pharmacology and genomics on this module. She also teaches medicines safety on our BSc in nursing programme. Jodie teaches physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology on the MSc Nursing programme and is a dissertation supervisor. Jodie is module lead for the Medicines Optimisation module on the Nursing Associate apprenticeship programme. She also teaches Evidence-Based Practice on the Nursing Associate programme.
Postgraduate
Jodie teaches pharmacology on the Independent and Supplementary prescribing programme. She also contributes to the ACP programme.
Publications
Selected publications
- Coulson, J., Anderson, H. and Adamson, J., 2025. Genomics in pre-registration nurse education: a narrative review. Nurse Education in Practice, p.104504
- Coulson, J., 2025. Genomics for Nurses: An Introduction. Routledge
- Coulson, J., 2022. Understanding the role of genomics in nursing practice, Nursing Standard Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain): 1987).
- Coulson, J., 2022. Identifying and managing adverse drug reactions to promote medicines.
adherence and safety. Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain): 1987). - Coulson, J., 2021. Understanding the pharmacology of the side effects of medicines for effective prevention of adverse drug reactions. Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain): 1987).
- Coulson, J., 2020. Optimising the absorption of medicines. Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain): 1987), 35(7), pp.61-66.
Podcasts
- Prescriber Pod Pharmacology Series (available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts).
External activities
Overview
- External examiner UWE – Independent and Supplementary Prescribing programme
- Peer reviewer for Nursing Standard
- Jodie was a panel member at the 2024 Wellcome Connecting Science workshop for
educators: How to Teach Genomics, hosted at the Wellcome genome campus in Hinxton. - Jodie has written a module on the safe use of opioid medications for the SCRIPT national e-learning programme. SCRIPT is designed to encourage safe and effective prescribing and medicines management. It is developed by the University of Birmingham and OCB Media Ltd, and commissioned by Health Education England.
