Meet the team

RCN Imaging Nurses Forum Steering Committee

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Maggie Williams- Forum Chair

I joined the Imaging forum in 2009 keen to be involved in the promotion of imaging nursing at a national level. Since this time I have taken on the role of the forum editor and represented the forum at both the Extended Working Hours for Clinical Imaging Services Reference Group and the NICE Sonovue scoping workshop.

I believe that the continuing education of imaging nurses is fundamental to ensuring our speciality retains it importance and that others recognise the contribution that imaging nurse’s make. Imaging nursing is such a diverse group that I feel it is important to reflect this in the committee to ensure that our focus remains broad, addressing the needs of all imaging nurses.

As chair of the imaging forum I would like to:

  • look at the geographical spread of our membership and try to increase membership in areas where numbers are currently small
  • increase our accessibility to the forum membership, improving the awareness and understanding of role of the imaging forum
  • continue the work already started to have the forum recognised as a group that are automatically considered  by other organisations involved in our speciality as having a worthwhile and important contribution to make to the development of policy documents
  • increase the collaborative working with other forums
  • provide leadership to the committee members.

I am the Clinical Lead Nurse, Radiology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead.  I can be contacted via maggie.williams@ghnt.nhs.uk

Brenda Munro

I am originally from Northern Ireland and studied at the Belfast Southern College of Nursing. I accepted a post at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital and came to Guernsey to live in 1990.

I began working in the Radiology Department approximately sixteen years ago and immediately joined the Imaging Nurses Forum (as it is now known). I am passionate about Imaging nursing and proud of the contribution that we make to Imaging departments.

My experience of the Royal College of Nursing has been very positive. Working in an isolated area in a small multimodality department has been difficult at times. The Imaging Nurses Forum has provided me with essential information. The annual conferences have been a great place to network ,enabling me to talk to other nurses, visit other departments and to realise that I am not alone, other people experience the same challenges that I do. I applied to join the steering committee because I wanted to contribute to the significant work that the committee undertakes.

I contemplated joining the committee when Elaine Wright mentioned that the committee would be seeking new members at the 2008 conference. When an appeal was made for new steering committee members I applied through the RCN website. I was stunned when I was invited to an interview and delighted when I was offered a position on the steering committee. I am looking forward to working with other committee members to support forum members, raise the profile of Imaging nurses, produce new guidelines and information on procedures for staff and patients to facilitate quality care. 

Grace Johnston

Hello – my name is Grace Johnston and I’ve recently joined the forum committee. I’ve worked in radiology in Aberdeen since 1994 and, like many nurses starting in this speciality, didn’t really know what I was getting into!

I completed my undergraduate course in Edinburgh before returning to Aberdeen to work in medical and surgical paediatric and care of the elderly wards before moving to radiology. I didn’t anticipate staying in one clinical area for so long but enjoyed it too much to leave. The phrase ‘The only constant in life is change’ certainly rings true in this specialty and is one of the reasons why I enjoy my work.

The department in which I work performs a wide variety of procedures, including: diagnostic and interventional radiology, and neuro-radiology cardiology. I look forward to contributing to the forum and to working with forum members to promote imaging nursing.

Caroline Rushton

Caroline works as a Nuclear Medicine Nurse at Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. She can be contacted via caroline.rushton@nhs.net

Mina Karamshi- RN DipHE BA(Hons) MICR, Specialist Sister in Radiology

I have been working in a radiology department for over eleven years now. I started as a radiology (imaging) nurse and then became the radiology research sister. I am currently the specialist sister in radiology. 

I am one of the editors of the Journal of Radiology Nursing and also sit on its reviewing panel as I do for the British Journal of Nursing. Additionally, I sit on the Local Research Ethics Committee as a nurse representation. I have also written many professional articles for radiology nurses in order to share knowledge and learning. 

I am very passionate about shaping the future for imaging nurses and where it is going. I am a good communicator who likes to put ideas into practice. I have really strong ambition, enthusiasm, motivation and drive for developing practice for imaging nurses.  In the next four years, I would like to see the status of imaging nurses enhanced and recognised to a new found status on a professional level.  This would be through working together, representing and supporting imaging nurses and their views/ideas and sharing existing knowledge through local and national events/programmes and study days. 

I am also keen on promoting new developments and taking on innovative ideas, policies and new practices within this specialty, in order to benefit the knowledge and skills of its existing members.  I would like to ensure sure that its member’s suggestions, views, concerns and ideas are heard and acted upon in order to benefit all. The RCN has supported the professional work of the imaging forum and we should ensure that this good work continues.