Nursing Conversations was conceived by Elaine Maxwell, June Girvin and Teresa Chinn – 3 nurses who believe that there are some conversations that need to be started in nursing.
Elaine Maxwell trained as an SRN in the 1970s and worked in a number of clinical roles before moving into Quality and Research roles in 1992. She became an Executive Director of Nursing in two NHS Trusts before undertaking her PhD. She has since had a wide range of roles including Strategic Lead for Patient Safety. Associate Professor in Leadership and Clinical Advisor on Research Dissemination. Elaine believes nurses must think independently, always retaining curiosity and testing the status quo. She would rather you disagree with her than say nothing.
June Girvin qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1976 and had a long clinical career, becoming an Executive Director of Nursing in an acute Trust in 1993. Looking for new challenges that used her transferrable skills she entered the Higher Education sector in 2001, and held the leadership positions of Dean of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences and Pro Vice Chancellor at a leading modern university for a total of 16 years. Now independent of employment June writes, talks and comments on nursing. She is a coach and mentor both formally and informally, and undertakes occasional consultancy projects if the work interests and engages her. June loves communicating with a very wide range of people on social media and especially enjoys conversations about nursing. June always endeavours to be interesting, sometimes challenging, and amusing when she can be.
Teresa Chinn trained as a nurse as part of Project 2000 in the 1990’s. Following a period working as an agency nurse Teresa found herself isolated from the nursing profession and turned to social media. Teresa founded the #WeNurses Twitter discussion group in 2011 which subsequently led to many “We” communities. Teresa received an MBE for services to nursing in 2015. Teresa is passionate about the use of social media in nursing to start conversations that matter.
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