Taken from: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/directories/people/anna-crouch
Qualifications
RGN.
RMN. SCM. TCPC. ADM. Cert Ed (FE). Ed Couns Skills Cert. BA (Midwifery
Studies). BA (Theology). ICTL (ILM standard 2). MA in Education (Open).
Previous and other
appointments
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July-October
1977 - Staff Nurse (RMN) Chronically Disturbed Ward (Psychiatric Dept
Basingstoke District Hospital)
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November
1977-August 1978 - EN (Gen) Emergency Operating Theatres (Redhill Gen Hospital)
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July-October
1980 - Staff Nurse (SRN) General Intensive Care (Sandwell District Gen
Hospital)
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November
1981-August 1982 - Staff Nurse (SRN) - General Intensive Care (Leicester Royal
Infirmary)
·
February
1983-May 1984 - Staff Midwife (Mothers Hospital (now Homerton Hospital)
·
May
1984-June 1988 - Staff Midwife Maternity Unit (Milton Keynes Hospital)
·
July
1988-September 1989 - Midwifery Sister (Teaching Dept-(Maternity Unit.
Kettering General Hospital)
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July
1990 - Completion of Cert Ed Course (Wolverhampton Polytechnic)
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July 1990-1994 - Midwife Teacher (Pre Reg Midwifery -
Milton Keynes Hospital / NGH /KGH / Nene College)
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August 1994-1996 - Senior Lecture Midwifery / Nursing
(Nene College /UCN)
·
December 1996 (to date) - Senior Lecturer(School of Health
by UCN - Now The University of Northampton)
Research experience
A. Completed a few projects/small scale research
during a Master of Arts in Education degree course with OU over 3yrs -
completed in 1999. Awarded MA (Ed) Open. The areas researched included:
B.
-
An
investigation into the difficulties encountered in critically analysing care by
midwifery students
- Practitioner Action research
into mentoring- developed
a booklet for training / updating mentors
for nurses-used by school of Health for a while
- The use
of counselling skills as a mentoring strategy – a case study
- Assessment
policies for nursing and midwifery course- the role of the external examiner
- A
qualitative study of the key factors that contribute to effective provision of
an on programme educational guidance and counselling-the perception of student
nurses
C.
Journal
club leader (Nursing and Midwifery -February 2005-September 2005)- I encouraged
working colleagues to engage in research activities including presentation and
discussion of their research papers or other research papers as appropriate.
D. Evaluation of The Service User and
Carer Involvement Strategy (completed 2006).
E. Educational research - 'EBL' enquiry
based learning.
F. A reviewer for an international
Journal known as Learning in Health and Social Care by Blackwell Publishing
January 2005 -2006
G. A reviewer for an international
nursing journal- Nursing Forum Since November 2006
H. Chaired + Co-edited for a nursing text
book-also author/co-author of 4 chapters of
same book (2003-2005)-entitled Vital notes for notes for nurses: health assessment. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Oxford (Crouch & Meurier, 2005).
I.
Conducted
HE funded research on the ‘exploration of the needs & experiences
of nursing and midwifery students with dyslexia and how best they could be
supported in clinical practice (grounded theory approach after Glaser &
Strauss) 2006-2008 (Crouch, 2008a, b & c)- Produced award winning (1st prize out of other posters
from 27 different universities at Chester University) poster guidelines for
mentors supporting nursing and midwifery students with dyslexia in clinical
practice (Crouch,2009). Also awarded University
Teaching Fellow title for same.
J.
Conducted
research 2009-2010 ‘Exploration of experiences of non-dyslexic
and dyslexic nursing and midwifery students of the personal academic tutor
support, the needs of the students, and how they could be met’ (Published-Crouch,2010)
K. Co-Editor of Enhancing the Learners
Experience in HE (ELEHE) International research Open journal at TUoN since March 2012 –Published volume 4 in Nov
2012
L.
Board
member of Disability in professional practice and special
interest group (DiPPSIG-National Net work of researchers on disability in
health care professions) net-work meeting Birmingham University 31st
May 2012 and 10th Sept 2012 at Worcester University and at
TUoN on 12th April 2012
Publications
Allen S. Crouch A (2005) Cultural and Spiritual Health Assessment.
In Crouch A Meurier C (2005,eds) Vital Notes on Health Assessment.
Chapter 10. Blackwell Publishing. Oxford. ISBN No 1-4051- 1458-4
Allen S. Crouch A (2005) Cultural and Spiritual Health Assessment.
In Crouch A Meurier C (2005-eds) Vital Notes on Health Assessment.
Chapter 10. On line www.blackwellpublishing.com/1405114584
Crouch A (2005) Communication
Skills needed for holistic health assessment. In Vital Notes For Nurses:
Health Assessment. Chapter 5. Blackwell Publishing. Oxford. ISBN No
1-4051-1458-4
Crouch A (2005) New
Health Assessment Book Makes Valuable Contribution to Care. In UCN (2005,eds)
Keeping you updated. Update. Issue 4. September 05; page 4
Crouch A. (2008) Needs, Experiences and Support of Dyslexic Nursing and Midwifery
Students. Health matters. Research
and Knowledge Transfer Newsletter. The University Of Northampton.
Crouch A (2008a) Health
Sciences and Practice mini Project. Executive summary. Needs and experiences of
dyslexic students + support in clinical practice. May 2008
Crouch A. (2008b) Needs / experiences of dyslexic students +
support in clinical practice. Nursing and Midwifery Students. http://www.health.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/miniprojects/projectdocs2008/acrouch/
Crouch A (2008c)
An exploration of the needs and
experiences of nursing and midwifery dyslexic students in clinical practice and
how best they could be supported. NET2008
Conference 2-4 Sept 2008. 19th Annual International Participative
Conference. Education in Health care. Abstracts for theme papers, symposia and
posters. Page 78. The University of Cambridge
Crouch A (2009) Anna
Crouch and her winning poster at ‘Stepping Up 2009’ http://www.health.heacademy.ac.uk/img/hspimg/relatedevents/acrouch-poster2009.
jpg/view?searchterm=poster%20Crouch Accessed 17.01.11
Crouch A (2009) Mini project follow up poster. Supporting
students with dyslexia in clinical practice. Health Sciences and Practice NEWS.
Higher Education Academy. Issue No 28 September 2009. Page 6
Crouch A (2009) Needs and experiences of nursing and
midwifery dyslexic students in clinical practice and how best they could be
supported. 4th
International conference iPED 2009 Proceedings. ‘Researching beyond boundaries’
Academic communities without borders. 14-15 September 2009. Pages 17-18 ISBN 978-1-84600-0287 Coventry University Techno
Centre, UK
Crouch A (2009) Poster: Supporting dyslexic students in clinical practice. http://www.health.heacademy.ac.uk/20101008/publications/externalpub/acrouchposter.pdf/view?searchterm=poster%20Crouch/
Crouch A (2010) Experience of non-dyslexic and dyslexic
nursing and midwifery students: how best can their needs be met by Personal
Academic Tutor support? Enhancing the
Learner Experience in Higher Education, The University of Northampton, p 56-73: Volume 2 No 1 (2010), ISSN 2941-3122 http://journals.northampton.ac.uk/index.php/elehe
accessed 10.03.11
Crouch A (2010). Anna Crouch In Fellowships. A
celebration of the University of Teaching Fellowships: p7-8. The University of
Northampton.
Crouch A Meurier C (2005,eds) Vital Notes For Nurses: Health Assessment.
Blackwell Publishing. Oxford. ISBN No 1-4051-1458-4
Crouch A. Rumbold G. Thompson M. Turner W. (2005,eds) Factors that need to be considered during
health assessment. In Crouch A
Meurier C (2005,eds) Vital Notes For Nurses: Health Assessment. Chapter 4.
Blackwell Publishing. Oxford. ISBN No 1-4051-1458-4
Meurier C Brown J & Crouch A (2005) Physical Assessment. In Crouch A Meurier C (2005-eds) Vital Notes For Nurses: Health
Assessment. Chapter 6. Blackwell Publishing. Oxford. ISBN No 1- 4051-1458-4
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