Liz Deutsch Professor for Nursing Practice, Centre for Care Excellence, a partnership between University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Coventry University.
Breaking the Mould
Breaking the mould is the main theme which coalesces three parts of Liz’s inaugural lecture; her formative years with her foster family onwards to nurse training; her 34-year clinical career and, her clinical academic calling. The lecture will share what stimulated her interest in evidence-based practice and the innovative ways she has led quality improvements, audit and research within healthcare, to drive small positive changes for patient care. She describes how she has forged a strong and long clinical career and her experiences of doing nursing research in practice, to build her Portfolio. Liz is a great advocate of pragmatism and firmly believes where there is a will, there a way, to address issues in healthcare amongst the complexity, pace and volume of work. Breaking the mould shares her reflections of what it means to be a pacesetter by looking back over 34 years of achievements. Liz most hopes this talk will inspire others to surpass their own expectations as she has hers, of just wanting to be a nurse.
Biography
Over her 34-year nursing career, Liz has worked in a variety of clinical roles involving conducting audit, service improvements/redesign, research and advanced practice. This culminated in Liz being a pacesetter as the first Consultant Nurse appointed in the West Midlands, where she worked in acute medicine at a very large acute trust for 20 years. She developed new roles in Advanced Nursing Practice to improve patient care and safety. In 2014, Liz took a 3-year break from her role after obtaining an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (Portfolio study 10101: £253,000.00) to study a PhD at University of Manchester. She gained a post-doctoral HEE award with University of Birmingham investigating Criteria Led Discharge, globally.
In her transition into a clinical academic post in 2020 she was successful in gaining a place on the prestigious National Institute for Healthcare Research 70@70, senior nurse research development programme for 3 years. Liz joined the Centre for Care Excellence in 2021, as an Associate Professor for Nursing and hasn’t looked back since, progressing her clinical academic career in Coventry.
Liz received a Life Fellowship from the Society for Acute Medicine in 2016 for her ‘outstanding contribution to nurse education and development for multi-professional staff in acute medicine’. She is only the second nurse to receive this award in the past 20 years.
Liz holds a global following for her research on patient discharge from hospital, specifically Criteria Led Discharge (CLD) through innovations in practice and qualitative enquiry. During 2018, Liz led the first global systematic review of criteria led discharge. In 2020, Liz commenced feasibility testing protocol for CLD after developing a standard operating procedure for NHS hospitals (Lees-Deutsch et al, 2019) evidenced from her global systematic review (Lees-Deutsch and Robinson, 2018). In 2021, Liz produced the first national health service policy guidance about CLD, in collaboration with NHS England (NHSE). During 2022/3, in collaboration with NHSE Midlands Liz designed a user led survey tool to demonstrate the characteristics and prevalence of patients suitable for CLD, namely SPEED (Selecting Patients for Effective Earlier Discharge). This work produced the largest database of evidence to substantiate the need for CLD in hospitals. She has developed worldwide research collaborations, published 130 papers (assorted topics) and authored 2 multi-professional patient discharge textbooks. Early adopters of her work are based in Australia and Tasmania.
Please be advised that this event will be filmed, and the footage is likely to be aired on television. While the primary focus of the filming will be on the speaker and the lecture content, there is a possibility that members of the audience may be captured in the footage.
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