Julie Churchill is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Nursing, with the Specialist Practitioner District Nursing student programme, and with associate students within the Non-medical Prescribing programme.
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I am passionate about Community Nursing and recognise the central role it plays in service delivery of healthcare in community settings. Gaining my SPQ qualification was transformational. Of course, it equipped me with the knowledge and skills required to be an effective team leader, team manager, caseload manager, and case manager, but it gave me far more than this. The SPQ qualification helped me appreciate how to identify and manage risk as well as identify challenges and inequity in health care provision. It taught me about myself: who I am, how I think and why I think as I do. In addition, the SPQ qualification transformed me as a person and enabled me to thrive, grow, develop, and push myself like never before. It encourages me to become the evidence-based, critical thinker I am today, widening my thinking and viewpoints.
In January 2017 I was honoured and privileged to be one of twenty candidates accepted onto the Queens Nurse Award 9-month development programme –the first for 50 years and received my award in December 2017. The title is awarded to ‘clinical leaders who can demonstrate their impact as expert practitioners’.
My recent practice background is in District Nursing. Prior to my current post at Queen Margaret University my role was as Team Manager for Community Nursing within a Health and Social Care Partnership.  I have worked within Community settings for 30 years, firstly as a Practice Nurse, before landing a much sought-offer role as a Community Nurse. Most recently I have worked as a District Nurse for over 24 years. During my community career, I have worked within England and Scotland, providing care in areas from those of severe deprivation to those with more prosperity in both city and rural geographies.
This is an exciting time to be involved in nurse education, within the current climate of integration and advance of person-centred care approaches. I believe I have the ability to enthuse, motivate and encourage learners and I know I have the drive and ambition to meet the challenge of working as a Senior Lecturer in Community Nursing. To have the opportunity of meeting this challenge on a daily basis, in an inspiring and rewarding profession makes me proud and I am energised by playing a part in this.
Affiliations (including memberships) to other organisations:
Senior Fellow [Honorary]
Facilitator:
Chair Scottish Network of Post Registration Community Nurse Educators
Member of International Honor Society of Nursing
Member of Queen Margaret University Court
Member of Queen Margaret University Senate
I am passionate about Community Nursing, with a key focus on enabling learners/Community Nurses to experience a person–centred approach, which they can then translate and embed into their practice. This passion fuels my current focus for a Master of Research [MRes] of empowering early career community nurses to fulfill their leadership potential.
Active Research Interests:
- How early career community nurses perceive leadership
- Empowering early career community nurses to fulfil their leadership potential
Research Methods:
Qualitative
From 2017 -2019 I was project lead on a QNIS Catalyst for Change project, which aims to understand how to maximise the impact of Scottish Community Nurses in enabling people with long term conditions experiencing depression and/or anxiety, to self-manage their health. The experiences shared by people with lived-experience, together with the trust and honesty they have shown has been humbling.
In my role as Senior Lecturer in Community Nursing, my focus is on person-centred theory and practice, leadership [particularity relational, and co-active leadership], developing professional practice, advancing practice in clinical assessment, and independent and supplementary prescribing for health care professionals. I teach into modules across the nursing pre- and post-registration programmes as required. I act as moderator for the pre-registration Community Nursing modules for the British University of Egypt.
Programme Leader:Â
- Postgraduate Diploma Person-centred Practice [District Nursing]
In January 2017 I was honoured and privileged to be one of twenty candidates accepted onto the Queens Nurse Award 9-month development programme – the first for 50 years. I received my award in December 2017. The title of Queen's Nurse is awarded to ‘clinical leaders who can demonstrate their impact as expert practitioners’ and have successfully completed a 9-month leadership development programme.
