Ensuring compassion in

Nursing
Monday 26th January 2015 University Arena, Worcester
Morning session
Is there a compassion deficit in Nursing?
Time

Speaker

0930

Registration, coffee

1000

Introductions and context of the day

Paul Snelling

1015

On the nature of debate in nursing.

Derek Sellman

1030

There is no compassion deficit in nursing

John Paley

1115

Coffee

1145

There is a compassion deficit in nursing

1230

Table discussions

1245

Panel discussion

1315

lunch

Professor Gary Rolfe

DS, GR, JP

Afternoon Session
Ensuring compassion in practice
Time

Speaker

1400

From concern to action: supporting nurses to deliver

compassionate care

Yvonne Sawbridge

1430

Squaring the circle - practice

Lindsay Webb

1500

Squaring the circle education

Jan Quallington

1530

Panel discussions

YS, LW, JQ

1550

Sum up and close

Paul Snelling

Speakers biographies
Formerly at the University of Stirling, John Paley is a Visiting Fellow in the Centre
for Health and Social Care Research, Sheffield Hallam University. He has a
degree in philosophy from Cambridge, and since the 1990s has written
philosophical topics in nursing and research methods. His recent publications
include work on social cognition in the clinical environment, compassion,
Heidegger, the philosophy of qualitative research, hope, spirituality in health care,
and nursing ethics.
Jan Quallington is head of the Institute of Health and Society at the University of
Worcester. Her teaching and research interests are centred on how philosophical
and ethical theory can be applied to enhance and improve practice in the health
and care sectors. Specifically her research interests are; values led care, involving
the public in decision making, risk management and ethical leadership, end of life
issues and research ethics.
Gary Rolfe s Professor of Practice Innovation and Development in the College of
Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University. He qualified as a mental health
nurse in 1983 and has an academic background in philosophy and education. He
teaches reflective practice, practice development and action research and has
published ten books and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters on
philosophical aspects of practice, research methodologies, practice development
and education. Gary is also a visiting professor at Trinity College Dublin and
Canterbury Christ Church University. He is associate editor for Nurse Education
Today, and a member of Lancet Commission on UK nursing
Yvonne Sawbridge is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Health Services
Management at the University of Birmingham. A Registered General Nurse &
Health Visitor by profession, Yvonne has worked operationally and strategically in
many organisations across the health system and worked as both a provider and
commissioner. She has led service redesign projects such as IV Therapy in the
community, and a QIPP nursing home project to improve residents nutritional
status & prevent pressure ulcers.
Derek Sellman is director of the unit for Philosophical Nursing Research at the
University of Alberta. He has a research interest in virtue ethics as a base for
ethical nursing practice in general and in relation to the moral education of nurses
in particular. He is the editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal Nursing Philosophy
and is a former Secretary of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society
(IPONS)

Paul Snelling is Senior Lecturer in adult nursing at the university of Worcester.

His clinical background is in intensive and coronary care, and his interests are in
nursing philosophy and ethics. He is a member of the editorial board of Nursing
Philosophy

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Lindsey Webb was appointed as Chief Nursing Officer of Worcestershire Acute

Hospital NHS Trust in October 2013. Lindsey has extensive clinical experience
primarily in intensive care nursing in addition to previous education and
management positions in a number of organisations in the Midlands. Lindseys
interests are in developing strong teams to deliver change to benefit patients and
to enable, support and encourage staff to deliver the best care possible.