Pam Smith Explained

Pam Smith is a Professor of Nursing in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh.[1] Her research relates to emotions and care within the nursing profession.

Early life and education

Smith graduated from the Bachelor of Nursing programme at the University of Manchester. She gained a postgraduate certificate in adult education from Garnett College in 1973 and a MSc in Medical Sociology from Bedford College in 1982. Smith was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from King's College London in 1988 for a thesis entitled "The Quality of Nursing and the Ward as a Learning Environment for Student Nurses: A Multimethod Approach".[2]

Career

Smith was a nurse and teacher in Tanzania, Mozambique and Britain early in her career and later became a nurse researcher. On completion of her doctoral studies at King's College London, she was awarded a Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship and Fulbright Fellowship to study US nursing and healthcare and spent a year as a post-doctoral research with Professor Arlie Russell Hochschild at the University of California Berkeley, developing the application of emotional labour to nursing.[3] [4] She continues this area of research exploring how nurses manage emotions in intensive care settings,[5] how older peoples' voices can be heard[6] and investigating the transitions experienced by professionals and parents caring for children with cancer.[7] She went on to hold research leadership roles at Bloomsbury (later Camden and Islington) Health Authority from 1985 to 1992 and then at London South Bank University from 1997 to 2001. In 2012, Smith was appointed Professorial Fellow in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh having previously held a secondment as Professor of Nurse Education at the University of Surrey from 2009 to 2012. She then became Head of Nursing Studies from August 2010 to December 2013.

Smith's more recent research has examined new forms of development and brokerage in maternal and child health service delivery in Nepal and Malawi,[8] developed a UK taxonomy and framework for facilitating health policy deliberations on maximising secondary uses of healthcare data[9] [10] [11] and explored how delivering maternal and child healthcare can be improved through educating clinical professionals in Malawi.[12] Currently, she is a visiting professor at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London and Honorary Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Smith was awarded an MBE for services to nursing and nurse education in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff Spotlight: Professor Pam Smith . University of Edinburgh . 27 May 2019.
  2. Web site: Quality of nursing and the ward as a learning environment for student nurses : a multimethod approach. Smith. P. 1988. British Library. May 27, 2019.
  3. Smith, P., Pearson, P. H., & Ross, F.. 2009. Emotions at work: what is the link to patient and staff safety? Implications for nurse managers in the NHS. Journal of Nursing Management. 17. 2. 230–237. 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2009.00980.x. 19416427. free.
  4. Smith, P., & Cowie, H.. 2010. Perspectives on emotional labour and bullying: reviewing the role of emotions in nursing and healthcare. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion. 3. 3. 227–236. 10.1504/IJWOE.2010.032923.
  5. Book: Smith, P. The emotional labour of nursing revisited: Can nurses still care?. Macmillan International Higher Education. 2011. 978-0230202627.
  6. Hutnik, N., Smith, P., & Koch, T.. 2016. Using cognitive behaviour therapy to explore resilience in the life‐stories of 16 UK centenarians.. Nursing Open. 3. 2. 110–118. 10.1002/nop2.44. 27708821. 5047334.
  7. Taylor, J., Smith, P., & Taylor, J.. 2017. A hermeneutic phenomenological study exploring the experience health practitioners have when working with families to safeguard children and the invisibility of the emotions work involved. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 26. 3–4. 557–567. 10.1111/jocn.13486. 27487468. 206105100 .
  8. Msiska, G., Smith, P., & Fawcett, T.. 2014. Emotive responses to ethical challenges in caring: A Malawian perspective. Nursing Ethics. 21. 1. 97–107. 10.1177/0969733013487191. 23702891. 20.500.11820/b98bbb90-19b5-465f-8da1-5b5f6bdb57c7. 23555014 . free.
  9. Robertson, A. R., Smith, P., Sood, H., Cresswell, K., Nurmatov, U., & Sheikh, A.. 2016. Tightrope walking towards maximising secondary uses of digitised health data: a qualitative study. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 23. 3. 591–599. 10.14236/jhi.v23i3.847. 28059693 . free.
  10. Robertson . Ann R R . Nurmatov . Ulugbek . Sood . Harpreet S. . Cresswell . Kathrin . Smith . Pam . Sheikh . Aziz . A systematic scoping review of the domains and innovations in secondary uses of digitised health-related data . Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics . 10 November 2016 . 23 . 3 . 611–619 . 10.14236/jhi.v23i3.841. 28059695 . free . 20.500.11820/d71b4138-2b1c-49f4-b075-c37b59b2be4f . free .
  11. Cresswell, K. M., Coleman, J., Smith, P., Swainson, C., Slee, A., & Sheikh, A.. 2016. Qualitative analysis of multi-disciplinary round-table discussions on the acceleration of benefits and data analytics through hospital electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 23. 2. 501–509. 10.14236/jhi.v23i2.178. 27869580 . free. 20.500.11820/84085c5f-0adb-40b9-82af-995014f99b3e. free.
  12. Msiska, G., Smith, P., & Fawcett, T.. 2014. "The "lifeworld" of Malawian undergraduate student nurses: The challenge of learning in resource poor clinical settings.. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences. 1. 35–42. 10.1016/j.ijans.2014.06.003. free. 20.500.11820/afac5814-903e-4365-a4e7-bf4534acb456. free.
  13. News: Queen's Birthday Honours 2016 – Edinburgh people honoured today. Stephen. Phyllis. 2016. Edinburgh Reporter. May 27, 2019.

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