Graduate Student, School of Health, Social Care, & Sports & Exercise
Doctoral Research Fellow
Thesis Title: A qualitative study of abortion care: perceptions of patients and staff
Prof Ros Carnwell
Prof Odette Parry
About
Edna Astbury Ward
I have been a practising nurse for over twenty-five years, specialising in human sexuality and sexual and reproductive health for twenty of those years and have seen many changes in that time. I am also a qualified sexual and relationship therapist and family planning nurse.
Prizes and Awards:
• 1999 - Highly Commended by the Secretary of State for Health in the Millennium Nurse of the Year Awards for my work with patients with Erectile Dysfunction (ED).
• 2005 - RCN/Wyeth Prize for innovative practice in sexual medicine.
• 2006 - Royal College of General Practitioners (Wales) Annual Mental Health Award towards my PhD studies. http://www.rcgp.org.uk/councils__faculties/rcgp_wales/wamh_in_pc/bursa
• 2006 – Joint Welsh Assembly Government/Health Foundation Scholarship to study full time towards my PhD and to join a community of health scholars www.rcbcwales.org Title of PhD: A Qualitative study of abortion care: perceptions of patients and staff.
Main Qualifications:
2005: Principles and Practice of Family Planning Level 3 (Formerly Diploma in Family Planning)
2004: Masters Degree (with merit) Sexual Medicine from Lancashire postgraduate school of medicine and health, University Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE
2004: City & Guilds 7302 Level 3 Cert Delivering Learning (Formerly Stage 1 Teachers Training)
2001: Certificate in Sexual & Relationship Therapy, University Central Lancs, Preston
2001: Diploma in Higher Education. School of Nursing and Midwifery University College Chester
My current working week comprises 4 days research at Glyndŵr University, Wrexham, North Wales www.glyndwr.ac.uk and 1 day practice (alternately for North Wales NHS Trust as a Nurse Therapist ED & Diabetes clinic, Ysbyty Glan Clwyd and Counselling Nurse pre-assessment abortion clinic for Western Cheshire PCT, Countess of Chester hospital). I have lectured at local, national and international conferences on the subject of human sexuality, sexual dysfunction and sexual and reproductive health issues and have published in peer reviewed journals on these topics. I am past Editor of The British Society of Sexual Medicine Newsletter www.bssm.org.uk. I am a current reviewer for the BMJ and Nurse Education Today.
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