Lynn Wallace

My career pathway in Nurse Education started in 1990. It has taken me from the role of Clinical Supervisor to Clinical Lecturer and on to my current post as Lecturer in Nursing.    My clinical  experience includes General, Neurological  and Cardiothoracic surgical nursing and latterly adult Critical Care.  I teach predominantly on the pre-registration BSc(Hons) Nursing but am also the Academic Link Person (ALP) for an  international collaboration with the British University in Egypt (BUE), Cairo.   As part of the School of Health Sciences Manual Handling team, my clinical skills teaching extends across Nursing and the Allied Health Professions. Teaching, curriculum development and research in the area of Clinical Skills Learning has been a major focus of my work over the years, enabling me to maintain close links with nurses in practice.  The introduction and implementation of  Problem Based Learning into the curriculum has been another significant area of involvement, which fits very well with our  nursing division’s philosophy of person centredness.  More recently I have developed an interest and am leading in the promotion of Contemplative approaches to student education and staff working practices within the nursing division.  Contemplative practices such as Mindfulness also link closely to my long standing interest in the clinical management of pain.    

Affiliations/Memberships to Other Organisations:

• Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellow, Member of RCN ;
• British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) ;
• Association Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) ;
• British Pain Society (BPS);  
• International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP); 
• Scottish Mindfulness Research Community; 
• The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education(ACMHE);
• QMU Contemplative Pedagogy Group