Kim Hanson
- Programme Lead Return to Practice (Nursing) Senior Lecturer in Community Nursing
- Institute of Health
- Health and Wellbeing

- Email: kim.hanson@cumbria.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1228 616355
- Location: Carlisle - Fusehill Street
Biography
Kim has been involved in nurse education since 2002. Her areas of expertise lie in health promotion, community nursing and nurse education. She works with pre-registration nurses but also leads on Return to Practice. She an interest in recruitment and retention and is involved with both aspects in both pre-registration nursing and return to practice. She is active in Open Days and other recruitment events for both pre registration nursing and return to practice nursing and midwifery. Kim's interest in recruitment lead to a year long secondment as the lead for Widening Participation linked to the National Aimhigher project.
She is involved in various academic groups within the University. She particularly enjoys being a validation panel member. It affords her the opportunity of supporting other departments through validation combined with learning about other teaching and learning methods used within the University. She is a member of the Marketing and Recruitment group (with a focus on Return to Practice) and of the Placement Group (with a focus on Return to Practice).
Qualifications and memberships
Memberships
Fellow Higher Education Academy
Qualifications
MA(Ed) Lancaster University
PGCE(HE) Lancaster University
BSc (Community Nursing in the Home) Glasgow Caledonian University
Specialist Practitioner including nurse prescriber
Registered Midwife Dumfries and Galloway College of Nursing and Midwifery
Registered Adult Nurse Argyl and Clyde College of Nursing and Midwifery
Associate London College of Music (Dramatic Art) Teacher
Academic and research interests
Research Interests
Her interest lies within the patient experience and the public image of nursing.
Person centred care
She also has an interest in diagnostic assessment particularly for those who are returning to nursing
Academic Interests
Academic skills: pre-registration and for those who have been out of education for a number of years (Return to Practice)
Health Promotion
Public health and primary care
Research skills (qualitative)
Student experience
Research supervision
Current supervisor for MSc students on health programmes
Recent external roles
National Institute for Health Research: Reviewer
NIHR Dissemination Centre College of Raters:
Non pharmacologic Therapies for Low Back Pain: Asystematic Review for an Americal College of Physicians clinical Practice Guideline 2016
Interventions to treat mental disorders during pregnancy: A systematic review and multiple treatment meta-analysis 2017
Interventions for emergency contraception 2017