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EDU
Katie graduated as a registered Children’s Nurse from Kings College, London in 1998. Her nurse training was consolidated by six years of general surgical and medical nursing experience at Guys & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust delivering care to acutely and chronically unwell children, young people & their families. The greatest challenge, and reward, followed in her capacity as Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Pain Control Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where she spent four years fulfilling this specialist nursing role. It was here that she developed expertise and passion for the care of children and young people with complex health care needs and disabilities, organisational leadership for change and high quality healthcare education. Thereafter she returned to Kings College, London in 2008; a decade from qualifying as a children’s nurse, and this time to commence a new and exciting career trajectory as a Nursing Lecturer. A decision she did not regret on return to her Norfolk roots in 2011 undertaking the role of a Child Health Nursing Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, UEA. Katie spent four years leading the undergraduate children and young people’s health nursing provision as the BSc Programme Course Director and a further four years undertaking the school level leadership role of Quality Assurance Lead and NMC Official Correspondent. Katie continues in a senior academic role as Associate Professor in Child Health Nursing with a focus on progressing successfully through an Education Doctorate whilst leading 3rd year clinical nursing skills requirements as module organiser of Nursing Practice and Simulation (NPS3). Katie is a trained and certified intuitive eating councellor and registered with the national directory of The Original Eating Eating Pros - Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch Katie McGhee, Author at Intuitive Eating
Katie cultivated an enthusiastic research interest into public health issues and particularly the impact of childhood on adult health outcomes and the responsibilities of all four fields of nursing in adopting a life course approach to empowering and effective healthcare. Her distinct curiosity lies with the prevention and management of obesity, particularly in the context of shifting the focus from weight to wellbeing and enabling people to develop and nurture relaxed and comfortable relationships with food, body and mind by the promotion of models of internally regulated eating i.e. intuitive eating and eating competence.
Additional areas of expertise and scholarly activity are paediatric pain management and the travel care needs of people across the life course with Type 1 Diabetes.
A member of the Children's Nursing academic team with a special interest in:
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review