Principal Lecturer – Public Health and Health Visiting
Bournemouth University
Karen is Principal Academic in Health Visiting and Public Health at Bournemouth University where she leads the SCPHN Health Visiting and School Nursing Programmes. Having registered as a SPQ DN and SCPHN HV in 1992 she worked as a health visitor in London and then Dorset, where she supported student learning as a practice teacher and then senior lecturer at BU. Karen recently led the successful validation of the SCPHN programmes against the 2022 NMC standards and mindful of the recruitment and retention challenges has co-produced CPD units for community staff nurses to support their learning and development in role.
