Trudi Neenan
Associate Professor

Profile

Biography

Following her nurse training in Cambridgeshire, Trudi has worked in Surgery, Medicine, Industry, Prisons, Endoscopy, A&E, ICU, Nutritional and Clinical Research at Staff Nurse and Sister level. Since joining this Department in 2003, she has held a number of teaching and support roles, although her primary passion is Practice Education and support.

Trudi has a strong interest in student support and supervision; her MA research examined the assessment of students in practice in third year. As Academic Lead for Practice Learning, she developed a model for practice placements to support the development of the new curriculum aligned to the NMC Standards of Proficiency (2018) and the Standards for Preregistration Nursing Programmes (NMC 2018). She was also actively involved in the development of the regional resources for student supervision and assessment in practice with the Midlands, Yorkshire + East Practice Learning Group.

Trudi is also committed to widening participation and valuing mature entrants to programmes of study. In addition, she has undertaken supplementary study to support students who experience medication calculation problems and has devised an aid to medication calculation for them.

Clinical interests included Surgery (GI & Vascular), pain management, ethics, professional accountability and skilled communication. She is currently studying for a Professional Doctorate in Education, focusing on the meaning of care in contemporary nursing.

Having completed her term as Practice Learning Lead, Trudi is looking forward to her new role as Admissions Tutor from July 2022.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• ENB 100
• ENB 998
• BA (Hons) Critical Care
• Cert Ed
• MA in Education (by Research)
• C&G 9484 Certificate in adult numeracy support

Departmental roles

• Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for Nursing and Midwifery
• Academic Assessor
• UG Personal Supervisor

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Supervision,Teaching and Assessment in Practice
• Leadership & Professional Development
• Ethics Applied to Nursing Care
• Communication in Adult Nursing Practice
• Accountability in Nursing
• Professional Identity
• Biosciences

Research

Overview

• MA Research Examined the assessment of third year student nurses in practice and why mentors are reluctant to fail them at this stage in their progamme.

Publications

Full publications list

• Neenan T. 2016. Calculations for Nursing Practice Pocketbook. Dept of Health S, University of York
• Neenan T. 1999. A hole lot more. Nursing Times 95 (2): 30-31. Jan 13th. 
• Neenan T. 1997. Advanced practitioners: the hidden agenda. Intensive and Critical care Nursing 13 (2): 80-86. April.

External activities

Memberships

• Member: Midlands, Yorkshire + East Practice Learning Group Involved in development of Regional resources for Practice Assessment Document including Practice Assessor and Supervisor Preparation and Regional Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD)
• Member of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
• Member of the RCN Education Forum

Invited talks and conferences

• 2010 RCN Education Conference - Failing Students in Practice: Why don’t we? Presentation of findings from MA research undertaken for MA, in which mentors’ views of problems assessing of student nurses were explored.
• 2012 RCN Education Conference - Introducing a Medication Calculation Aid for Nurses. An aid, recently devised by adapting the pain score ruler principle is currently being trialled by students in this department.