CATHERINE BROWNLIE

Catherine Brownlie is a Registered Nurse and Senior Lecturer in Nurse Education at Edge Hill University. Catherine has a background in Nephrology, District Nursing and Clinical Governance. The majority of Catherine's clinical career was within the community setting where she developed a wealth of transferable clinical and leadership skills; and gained Specialist Practitioner District Nurse and Community Nurse Prescriber NMC recordable qualifications in 2017. Catherine has engaged with a variety of opportunities including change management as part of digital transformation of District Nursing services and process development regarding patient safety and learning. Although she is an Adult Registered Nurse, Catherine held a leadership role in Paediatric Risk and Governance prior to making the transition to Higher Education.

Catherine is  a member of the Year 3 BSc and MSci Pre-Registration Nursing teaching team, currently the Verbal Assessment lead and has previously held additional Year of Study Lead responsibility. Catherine has written programme content mapped to NMC standards for level 6 keynote lectures, seminars, workshops and self directed study. Within a non-modular programme, Catherine has held responsibility for learning episodes including: 

• Risk Aversion and Management
• Risk Management and Improvement
• Management and Coordination of Safe Patient Transfer and Discharge
• Interpretation and Subsequent Actioning of Routine Investigations
• Person Centred Approached with Regards to Decision Making
• Team Building
• Team Dynamics
• Organisational Culture
• Change Management
• Audit and Learning from Listening
• The Law as Applied to Nursing

Catherine assesses on all theory aspects of NUR 3000 and has supported assessment at level 4 and level 5 across the Pre-Registration Nursing programme. Catherine is an academic assessor for Adult field students and works in close partnership with practice colleagues to ensure robust but supportive assessment. Catherine is also a personal tutor, providing pastoral support, signposting and risk assessment in line with the needs of an allocated group.

Catherine has held responsibility outside of the BSc Pre-Registration Nursing programme as an academic assessor for the MSci Nurse Paramedic programme and moderator for combined Nurse and Social Work programme. 

Catherine has an interest in psychological safety and undertook a small scale quantitative study exploring student nurse participatory engagement preferences as part of a Postgraduate Certificate Teaching in Higher Education (PGCTHE). Catherine hopes to carry out further research using qualitative methods exploring inclusive and psychologically safe, active learning environments and the relevance of this to patient safety.