Rachel Allen-Ashcroft

Mrs Rachel Allen-Ashcroft

Personal profile

Overview

My professional background is as an Adult Nurse and Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute and Emergency Medicine. I have undertaken many roles within the National Health Service ranging from Band 5-Band 8A.
I have been teaching and delivering both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Advanced Practice Education
I am currently the Academic lead for CPD and Health Partnerships in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. I am responsible for supporting both small- and large-scale collaborative projects, and support the work of the school in redesigning its CPD portfolio.

Research Interests

Project lead for the transformation of the post-graduation education webpages and working alongside South Bank Innovations.
I undertook a theoretical investigation (Allen-Ashcroft 2016-2019) as part of improving teaching delivery where I created a virtual and augmented reality lung. This was developed from concept of idea through to its implementation as part of teaching delivery for 500 Postgraduate students. The unpublished evaluations provided an indication as to the huge potential this technology has to advance learning beyond traditional classrooms walls. This now forms the basis of my PhD research where the aim is to examine and evaluate the impact of using immersive technology in the teaching delivery versus traditional teaching delivery in Postgraduate health students (N&M and ACH) who are undertaking Advanced Clinical Assessment modules. This research will focus upon examining if there are significant differences between immersive versus traditional teaching delivery upon active learning, clinical reasoning and skill acquisition.

Additional Responsibility


Fitness to Practice Local Manager
Chair of the CPD management group IHSC
Mentor for students HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic Programme
Lead for CPD Nursing and Midwifery

Subjects Taught


Advanced Practice Postgraduate Education (Adult) Independent prescribing Pharmacology Applied Pathophysiology Work based Learning Renal/ Liver physiology Advanced physical examination Acute and Critical Care subjects XR pedagogy and integration into contemporary curriculum Leadership and Management Applied Teaching and Learning Curriculum design and quality Creative pedagogy and technology enhanced learning

Education/Academic qualification

MSc Advanced Professional Practice

20152019

PhD

2022 → …

External Positions and Roles

Senior Lecturer in Advanced Clinical Practice, Sheffield Hallam University

20162019

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