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Tuesday 28 January 2025
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
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Breaking the mould is the main theme which coalesces three parts of Professor Liz Deutsch’s inaugural lecture; her formative years with her foster family onwards to nurse training; her 34-year clinical career and, her clinical academic calling.
The lecture will share what stimulated her interest in evidence-based practice and the innovative ways she has led quality improvements, audit and research within healthcare, to drive small positive changes for patient care. She describes how she has forged a strong and long clinical career and her experiences of doing nursing research in practice, to build her Portfolio. Liz is a great advocate of pragmatism and firmly believes where there is a will, there a way, to address issues in healthcare amongst the complexity, pace and volume of work. Breaking the mould shares her reflections of what it means to be a pacesetter by looking back over 34 years of achievements. Liz most hopes this talk will inspire others to surpass their own expectations as she has hers, of just wanting to be a nurse.
Over her 34-year nursing career, Liz has worked in a variety of clinical roles involving conducting audit, service improvements/redesign, research and advanced practice. This culminated in Liz being a pacesetter as the first Consultant Nurse appointed in the West Midlands, where she worked in acute medicine at a very large acute trust for 20 years. She developed new roles in Advanced Nursing Practice to improve patient care and safety. In 2014, Liz took a 3-year break from her role after obtaining an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (Portfolio study 10101: £253,000.00) to study a PhD at University of Manchester. She gained a post-doctoral HEE award with University of Birmingham investigating Criteria Led Discharge, globally. In her transition into a clinical academic post in 2020 she was successful in gaining a place on the prestigious National Institute for Healthcare Research 70@70, senior nurse research development programme for 3 years. Liz joined the Centre for Care Excellence in 2021, as an Associate Professor for Nursing and hasn’t looked back since, progressing her clinical academic career in Coventry.