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Dr Sarah Burden

Reader

Dr Sarah Burden is a Registered Nurse (Adult) and Reader in Nursing with specific interests in practice education, end of life care and dementia. An experienced practitioner in intensive care and acute medicine, she has been involved as a Registered Vaccinator in the delivery of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme in 2021. Sarah teaches on a wide range of modules including clinical skills, medicines management, research, health promotion, palliative and End of life care. She is a Postgraduate Research tutor in the School of Health and personally supervises doctoral students in studies engaged with Health & Social Care Professional Education, Dementia Care, and Healthcare practice.

Sarah is the current Chair of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Education Forum. She has contributed to publications on Placement Learning and been a member of the Task & Finish group leading the development of the RCN Education, Learning & Development strategy for 2021-2024. She currently sits on the Expert Reference group to take this ELD programme forward. She is experienced in reviewing for publications (texts and journals), and is involved in national and international conference organisation and review in nursing education and research.

Current Teaching

Sarah currently teaches on the BSc Nursing programmes (undergraduate, degree apprenticeships and nursing associates) in key areas of skills development, health, evidence-based practice, leadership & change management, clinical decision making and End of life care. Externally she is involved in management and leadership training for care home managers, and contributes to the Leeds excellence in Practice (LEiP) programme in collaboration with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Research Interests

Sarah works closely with the Centre for Dementia Research in their work on Dementia Care and Services. She was an investigator in the “What works? In dementia training and education” project funded by Department of Health Policy Research Programme, and is currently contributing to a consultancy project developing and co-delivering management and leadership training for care home managers working for Avery healthcare. She has recently been involved in designing and managing a RCN funded scoping review of Clinical Supervision for nurses working in the UK, with a view to develop policy and practice in Clinical Supervision.

0113 81 24346
S.Burden@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Portland Building, 520, City Campus

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Health
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Selected Outputs

Surr CA; Sass C; Burnley N; Drury M; Smith S; Parveen S; Burden S; Oyebode J (2018) Components of impactful dementia training for general hospital staff: a collective case study. Aging and Mental Health

https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1531382
Burden SE; Topping AE; O'Halloran C (2017) Mentor judgements and decision making in the assessment of student nurse competence in practice: a mixed-methods study. Journal of Advanced Nursing

https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13508
Burden SE; Topping A; O'Halloran C (2015) The value of artefacts in stimulating recall interviews: Exploring mentor decisions of student competence in practice. Nurse Researcher, 23 (1), pp. 26-33.

https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.23.1.26.e1324

CLARK L; BURDEN S (2012) Incorporating volunteering experience within a pre-registration programme: a case study of volunteering in Nepal. Poster presentation.
BURDEN S; STACEY J (2010) Evaluation of a 'student developed' practice placement experience for undergraduate Adult Branch nursing students: Leeds Festival 2009.
ROBBINS MA; LISLE J; BURDEN S; PARKER S; GOULD K; FEE S; HOWE C (2010) It's all about the future- Taking a collaborative approach to practice assessment across the Yorkshire and Humber region.
BURDEN S (2009) Developing Confidence for practice: the student experience of formative objective structured clinical assessments for medicines management in an undergraduate nursing programme.
BURDEN S; MCEWAN A (2009) A comprehensive approach to skills development in medicines managament and non-medical prescribing across pre- and post-registration nursing curricula: a medicines: a medicines skills escalator.
BURDEN S; PORTER J; GOULD K; BELCHER R; BATES F (2009) They said it couldn't be done! Working together to improve the student placement experience.