Mo Ghoorun

Commenced working at Edge Hill University as a Lecturer in Nurse Education in November 2020- specialising within my field and background of Mental Health Nursing, though working as a staff member supporting and delivering teaching to current 3rd Year BSc (Hons) Nursing Programmes, MSc, MNSW and Non-Medical Prescribing Programmes.

In August 2023, I was promoted to a Senior Lecturer in Nurse Education (Mental Health) following successful Progression application in-house.

I am a Registered Nurse (Mental Health) with the NMC since 2003, as well as a Registered Independent / Supplementary Nurse Prescriber since 2012

I am also a Personal Tutor to a number of Students on the BSc (Hons) Nursing Programme, as well as being an Academic Assessor to Students in Practice on both BSc and MSc programmes.

I have completed the Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (PGCTHE) with a Distinction awarded in November 2022, and am a Fellow in the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

I have a vast experience of 18 years clinical practice as a Registered Nurse (Mental Health) in Acute Inpatient (PICU, Forensic), Community Settings (Assertive Outreach, CMHT, Early Intervention, Older Persons), Criminal Justice / Liaison and Diversion as well as Leadership and Management within CMHTs as well. This covers the whole adult lifespan working with Adults and Older Persons in my time in clinical practice. I have worked in East Anglia, South of England, Lake District and the North West of the UK as a Senior Nurse.

Qualified as a Non Medical Prescriber in 2012

In this role at Edge Hill to date, I have developed a great level of Leadership roles to date. This includes leading on the development of two key assessments in the final year of the BSc Nursing Pre-Registration Programme and working closely with the internal boards in relation to any changes and updates to these as well as managing the overall management of the assessment via allocation of timetabling, delegation to academic colleagues in relation to assessment timetabling, and engaging with external skateholders such as external examiners.

I am the Nursing Field Advisor in relation to establishing Mental Health nursing content within the entire pre-registration curriculums across the faculty. This entails my leadership in ensuring that the identity of Mental Health Nursing is instilled throughout the pre-registration programmes in line with the NMC (2018) Standards by working with other Field Advisors and developing a Symposia Group whereby external colleagues are invited to facilitate specific field-based learning to students. Furthermore, I delegate to other lecturers, the development of the Mental Health Field element to other years in the BSc Cohorts as well as the MSc and MNSW Programmes, and facilitate monthly meetings in a supportive / supervisory role in this regard. I continually strive to ensure that Mental Health Field Identity within the Nursing Curriculums is maintained and enhanced, and this is supported by the external partners from other Higher Education Institutions whom I collaborate with via Mental Health Nurse Academics UK.

Additionally I am a Year of Sudy Lead for the January BSc Nursing Year 3. I have the responsibiities of overall leadership and co-ordination with regards to the delivery of the Year of Study insofar of the day to day seamless running and delivery of the curriculum for Year 3. I work very closely with fellow Year of Study Leads and Programme Leads.

In January 2025, I was sucessful in being awarded inauguration as a University Teaching and Learning Fellow. This will further enhance my excellence as an academic, fundamentally promoting and championing the integration, scaffolding and pedagogical learning and assessment of mental health nursing across the Pre-Registration School of Nursing and beyond the wider university and beyond

In regards to external networks, I am an active member of the Mental Health Academics Network UK (MHAUK) this being a collective membership of a number of Mental Health Nursing Academics from other universities / higher education institutions across the UK.

Having joined MHAUK, we are linking with other HEI’s nationally, hence sharing good practice and learning from each other. In this respect, we bring back relevant policy data and reporting relevant for inclusion from a mental health nursing perpective within the Edge Hill nursing curriculum and delivery.

Additionally, I am a member of the NMP Zone - is an online community, developed to support the growing range of professions involved in Non-medical Prescribing. The NMP Zone is run by a group of universities and provides a fantastic place to network, share best practice and get involved in projects related to Non-Medical Prescribing – given this is an area of practice which I specialise in, I am keen to engage with the group and again support integration of non-medical prescribing within our pre-registration programmes, with an emphasis upon mental health nursing within this.

I also maintain very strong links with the previous Mental Health NHS Trusts that I worked for in Greater Manchester, and form strong alliances with previous colleagues and staff in networking with these professionals externally in order to provide learning opportunities for our nursing students at Edge Hill. As already mentioned, this is principally via the Masterclasses and Symposia lead sessions, but also having established myself as a key stakeholder in the development of student nurses into practice as registered nurses. This has meant in recent years in my role at Edge Hill, to forge very strong working relationships with the NHS trusts locally where student nurses from Edge Hill University are placed.

I am one of the External Examiners for the BSc Nursing (Mental Health) Programmes at Univrsity of West London. This role started in 2022.

I specialise in a range of teaching activity within the faculty.  These include:

• Medication Management / Pharmacology / Non-Medical Prescribing
• Psychosis management and intervention
• Crisis Management in Mental Health
• Forensic / Criminal Justice Mental Health
• Policy influences on Mental Health Nursing
• Mental Health Promotion and interface with Public Health
• Clinical Supervision and Reflection in Mental Health Nursing
• Safeguarding complex cases in Mental Health Nursing
• Applying Simulation to Mental Health Nurse Training
• Micro, Miso and Macro approaches to Nursing Care
• Managing complexity in contemporary healthcare

I very much consider myself to being very research-active, and at time of updating my PURE Profile, I am engaged in writing three discssion papers for publication in the next year. I regularly committ to a high number of Scholary Activity hours as part of my role as a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing at Edge Hill University. These are focussed on the following key areas of clinical teaching and practice:

1. Towards strengthening the Mental Health components of Pre-Registration Nursing Programmes (currently in review by British Journal of Nursing).
2. Bridging the Gap - Developing Nursing Symposia in the four Pre-Registration Nursing Fields (in progress)
3. A critical comparison of Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing - nationally and internationally and the impact on Nurse Education

There is another planned paper related to Mental Health Recovery - with an emphasis upon cultural perspectives to this planned to start in 2025.

I have also begun in recent weeks, collaborative work with a few Mental Health Nursing Academics from across the UK. This is looking at being involved in a number of Systematic Reviews with regards to developing Mental Health Nursing Practice. I am currently involved in looking at the experiences of Palliative Care in Mental Health Nursing, with a publication expected from this later in 2025.

I have Research interests in the following areas which I plan to develop into collaborative publications moving forward:

• Mental Health Nursing Field Identity and its promotion within Pre and Post Registration Nursing.
• Comparison of Simulated Practice Learning for Mental Health Nursing and its delivery within Higher Education Institutions
• Embracing Culture and Ethnicity into Mental Health Nursing

I am hopeful that one of the above areas will consolidate my future plans as a topic for commencing a PhD Degree in the coming 12-18 months all being well.

From late spring / summer 2025, I am co-authoring a book based on my clinical background of Medicines Management in Mental Health Nursing - this expected to be published in Late 2026.

Publications

Wagstaff, C., Kaur-Aujla, H., Ghoorun, M., Arat, S., Simbani, N., & Ramtohul, A. (2023). Reflections on problems that could explain the glass ceiling for black mental health nurse academics. Mental Health Nursing, February/ March 2023, 10-12.