Meet the team
Your forum is led by nurses who are committed to supporting the best care for surgical patients. We strive to understand the needs of perioperative nurses and are open to discussion to develop that understanding. Members of the steering committee are nominated and elected and are expected to:
- seek out the views of forum members
- attend RCN Congress each year
- work for the RCN at national level
- participate in the work of the steering committee
- comment on issues related to perioperative nursing
We have asked them to give an indication of their interests and specialities so that if you have a question, need advice or have a suggestion for projects you would like to see the forum undertaking, you can direct it to an appropriate member of the forum committee.
Forum Chair- Rosanne Macqueen
Rosanne has over thirteen years experience in perioperative practice including clinical practice as a scrub practitioner specialising in ENT surgery, and more recently in management and education within NHS Tayside and NHS Lothian. In January Rosanne began a new role as a Patient Safety Programme Coordinator supporting the implementation of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) within the Emergency Care and Medical Directorate and Regional Services Directorate, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Rosanne has been a member of the RCN since starting her student nurse training in 1991, and was elected as a member of the Perioperative Forum in 2009. Rosanne is a member of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) and won AfPP’s Perioperative Practitioner of the Year Award in 2009. Rosanne is a member of AfPP’s Education and Research Group, the Education Lead for the East of Scotland Regional Team, and a reviewer for the Journal of Perioperative Practice. Rosanne is also a member of Friends of Africa Nursing (FoAN) and has had the opportunity to teach theatre nurses in Malawi and Lesotho. In 2009 Rosanne completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Higher Education.
E-mail address – rosanne.macqueen@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Ciaran Hurley
Ciaran is a lecturer at the Sheffield Hallam University Faculty of Health and Wellbeing. He teaches a range of subjects in the pre-registration nursing curriculum and has links with the colorectal surgical wards and the overnight-stay recovery ward at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. Before being a full-time lecturer Ciaran was a scrub and anaesthetic nurse in the trauma and emergency theatre teams at a number of hospitals in England. Ciaran was particularly happy to be a member of a hospital-wide group that supported nursing teams in delivering evidence-based care.
Ciaran is also the editor of the online community pages, any questions related to the website should be directed to him.
Email: c.hurley@shu.ac.uk
Moyra Journeaux
RGN MSc, PCAP, BSc (Hons), Dip Health Service Management, ENB176, ENB183
Moyra started her theatre nursing career in the Mater Infirmorum Hospital Belfast after qualifying as a Registered Nurse in 1989. My clinical experience has always been in the perioperative area, having completed the ENB 176 and 183 courses. Apart from a year spent in London, I have worked mainly in the Channel Islands, spending 5 years in Guernsey before settling in Jersey with my husband Dave and three children, daughter Aoife and sons Oisín and Séamus.
After a broad background in all areas of perioperative practice scrub, anaesthetics and recovery, I specialised in orthopaedic surgery and was orthopaedic Sister/Team Leader. Prior to moving full time into education my role was Perioperative Practice Development Sister. My current post is a lecturer and I maintain a link role with the Perioperative and Surgical areas. I am an honorary lecturer with the University of Southampton and part of the Research and Inquiry Based Practice, Mentorship and Work Based Learning teams at the university. I have an interest in patient safety and am a faculty member of the Royal College of Surgeons Patient Safety in Theatre Teams course. I have contributed to the Oxford handbook of Perioperative Practice and the AfPP Standards and Recommendations for Safe Perioperative Practice.
I am in the second year of my Professional Doctorate in Education with Cardiff University having previously completed an MSc in Advanced Surgical Practice at Cardiff. I completed my Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice at the University of Southampton. In the past, I have spent time as Chairman of both the Guernsey and Jersey Branches of AfPP and was a member of Editorial Panel of AfPP for a number of years. I also spent time on the AfPP Orthopaedic Specialist Interest Group (SIG). I am currently a peer reviewer for the Journal of Perioperative Practice, Nursing Standard and Sage OPEN. I have been a member of the RCN since 1986 and a member of the Perioperative Forum since it first started.
Email: m.journeaux@health.gov.je
Tracey Radcliffe
Tracey is a theatre and anaesthetics nurse with a wealth of experience in practice based education. Qualifying in 1990 and working in both National Health and independent departments, her current role of Practice Development Nurse for Wrexham Maelor Hospital operating department, finds her responsible for supporting staff in the whole surgical patient pathway, from admission to discharge. Tracey counts among her successful work, the local implementation of the diploma assessment of Operating Department Practice students, on which she also teaches; supporting her department to re-introduce a 6-week placement for pre-registration students; developing an Integrated Care Pathway for patients visiting the operating department and taking a local lead-role in the Safer Patient Initiative.
Email: tracey.radcliffe@new-tr.wales.nhs.uk
David Peter Cardwell
David is a Band 5 Operating Department Practitioner based in Weston super Mare, North Somerset.
Married to Lindsay, a trainee Assistant Practitioner, a daughter Emma, and Rosie the cat!
He holds Health Practitioner membership, and is registered with the Health Professions Council as an ODP.
David works in anaesthetics and recovery at a busy district general hospital for Weston Area Health NHS Trust.
His specialist areas of practice include trauma and orthopaedics, general surgery, gynaecology and urology. I am an active RCN Health and Safety Rep and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Assessor.
David is an Executive Officer for Somerset Branch.
He regularly mentor and support student nurses, ODPs and band two and three health care support workers and trainee assistant practitioners.
David hopes to be involved with developing band four assistant practitioner roles both now and in the future. He is keen to share good practice among forum members and intend to provide timely feedback on any issues raised.
Email: rcnodp@gmail.com