Biography
Nancy is a Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist working in the Palliative Care team at Cambridge University Hospital.
She has over 25 years of experience in the acute hospital setting and is passionate about research, education and improving patient care through service innovation.
Over recent years Nancy has led a service evaluation looking at how Virtual reality can help with symptom management in palliative care patients. Early results have been positive, showing significant immediate reductions in pain and anxiety.
Nancy has since published a short report in the BMJSPC and presented at a number of conferences. With her experience and knowledge in working with virtual reality she is now keen to continue to support further research in this area through knowledge mobilisation and developing an educational programme. Having now been awarded an ARC fellowship, she is excited to join the PELiCam group and to be able to undertake this project to fulfil this ambition.
Nancy's project title for her ARC Fellowship is: Implementing findings from a service evaluation of virtual reality for symptom control at Cambridge University Hospital NHS foundation Trust: a knowledge mobilisation project to develop an educational programme.
