Karen Stansfield
University of Salford, UK
Biography
Dr Karen Stansfield has extensive senior management, strategic leadership and quality assurance experience in the health and care sector, industry and in education. Karen is a highly skilled educationalist and has extensive experience in undertaking curriculum development in both pre and post-registration nursing and specialist education. Karen completed a doctorate in business administration her thesis was on health visiting and leadership. The leadership development model was created from this research. Karen has subsequently been awarded two grants from the The Burdett Trust for Nursing in conjunction with the Institute of Health Visiting in 2017 to pilot and implement the leadership development model and in 2018 to undertake a feasibility study to implement a leadership programme containing the leadership model and to develop and implement a leadership board game based on the leadership model. This was developed and delivered to a wide range of public health nurses in the UK.
Abstract
Abstract : Making a difference: How public health nurses understand the social processes of leadership