I have worked in healthcare for nearly 23 years. I had started off as a Healthcare Support Worker in a nursing home/healthcare centre in my native country of Iceland. Working pre-dominantly with patients who had Alzheimer's.
When I moved to the UK in 2003 I started working in nursing homes as an Auxiliary Nurse. In 2006, I started working in secure Mental Health as a Healthcare Assistant. I stayed there until 2012 when I went to University of Cumbria to become a nurse and I qualified with DipHE in Adult Nursing in 2015.
Since qualifying, I have worked as a staff nurse in Accident & Emergency and Medical Assessment, as well as doing extra shifts in other units to gain further experience. I became a charge nurse within a Secure Mental Health Unit that provided specialist care to patients with Acquired Brain Injury.
DipHE in Adult Nursing (2015)
BSc in Adult Nursing (2021)
PgC Learning and Teaching for Higher Education (2022)
MSc in Practice Development (on-going)
