Biography:
Prior to joining King’s Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre in February 2008 as Research Associate for the Innovations Programme, Nicola spent 5 years as a Research Fellow at both Brighton University and City University. At Brighton she worked in a team undertaking a Department of Health funded national evaluation of 4 collaborations piloting interprofessional education. At City, she was involved in several patient safety related projects examining the role of human factors in maternity and emergency care.
Nicola’s background includes critical care nursing and lecturing in Health Promotion and Interpersonal Skills. Her research interests include the changing demarcations between professional groups and boundary issues around trajectories of care. Nicola’s current research explores the management of deterioration in intra-partum and acute care and the impact of certain safety strategies and tools on the socio-cultural and institutional context of work. She is also undertaking a PhD part time looking at the social construction of deterioration in acute medicine.
Publications:
Freeth D, Berridge EJ, Mackintosh N (2008) NAMS / NPSA evaluation of safety culture and MOSES training in four maternity units and two clinical simulation centres, final report (National Patient Safety Agency and City University, London).
Mackintosh N, Berridge EJ, Freeth D (2007)Supporting structures for team situation awareness and decision-making: insights from four delivery suites. Accepted for publication, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Miller C, Woolf C, Mackintosh N, (2006) National Evaluation of Common Learning and AHP First Wave Sites. Final Report (Department of Health commission no 0160050). University of Brighton, September 2006. http://www.brighton.ac.uk/inam/research/projects/index.htm