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Teaching Interests

Complex and Challenging Care of Children and Families, Neuro-diversity and Sensorily Safe Environments, Clinical Skills and Simulation.

Sue mainly teaches across year three of the child field Pre-registration nursing programme.

• Challenges and complexity in children’s nursing (Module lead)
• Leading and managing nursing care (Module team)
• Essential skills for practice learning in nursing 3 (Child field lead)
• Practice learning in nursing 3 (Child field lead)

Research interests

Experiencing Sensory Overload Project – (ESOP)

A simulation based research project to enhance the quality of education on neuro-diversity and sensory overload in collaboration with K Wedgbury and the school of digital arts. 

Simulated Initial Child Protection Conference – An Interprofessional Learning Opportunity

An online simulation-based research project to enhance the quality of interprofessional learning for child field nursing and social work students within complex safeguarding. In collaboration with J Dale and A Lewis.  

Professional experience

• Senior Lecturer in Children’s and Young Peoples Nursing – Birmingham City University 
• Paediatric Sister Children’s Emergency Department    
• Paediatric Community Sister     
• Paediatric Intensive Care Staff Nurse     
• Paediatric High Dependency Unit Staff Nurse    
• Paediatric ward Staff Nurse

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Royal College of Nursing
• West Midlands Critical Care Network

Recent Publications (Poultney- Nee Lawrence)

Lawrence, S (2011) Promoting independence for children on long-term ventilation, Nursing children and young people 23 (10) pp 20-22

Lawrence (2012) Nebuliser types and use In. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills for Children's and Young People's Nursing (Oxford Handbooks in Nursing) (2012)

by Paula Dawson (Editor), Louise Cook (Editor), Laura-Jane Holliday (Editor), Helen Reddy (Editor)

Lawrence (2012) Respiratory care at home and in the community In. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Skills for Children's and Young People's Nursing (Oxford Handbooks in Nursing) (2012)

by Paula Dawson (Editor), Louise Cook (Editor), Laura-Jane Holliday (Editor), Helen Reddy (Editor)

Lewis, Deborah and O'Boyle-Duggan, Marie and Poultney, Sue (2017) In: Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198736134

Poultney, S. and Berridge, P. and Malkin, B. (2014) Nurse education in practice, 14 (4). pp. 345-349. ISSN 18735223

Conference presentations