Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes
Senior Lecturer
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My profile
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer with 14 years teaching experience and a FHEA.
I lead the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visitor) PGDip Programme.
My background is Adult Nursing (BNurs Hons) and I’ve been a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visiting) for over 20 years. I have a PGCert in Higher Education and NMC Registered Teacher, I am an NMC Registered Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber
I’m a Fellow of the Institute of Health Visiting and a member of MMU Institute of Children’s Futures.
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
I lead the PGDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visitor) Programme. This includes leading and teaching the following modules;
- Foundations of Health Visiting
- Responding to Contemporary Needs in Health
- Specialist Practice in Health Visiting
- Quality Leadership in Action
- Assessing Infants and Children (0 - 5 Years)
- Empowering Populations to Enhance Health and Well-Being (Health Visiting)
Research outputs
My research interests include:
- the influences and emotional impact of social media and the wider environment on parenting and children’s lived experiences
- breastfeeding, in particular; how societal and cultural changes can be achieved and the most effective ways of enabling mothers to breast feed for as long as they wish
- school readiness
- how the effectiveness of health visiting can be evidenced