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Written by Steven Dowd
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I have been here at the University of Sheffield since November 1996 when I was appointed as Senior Lecturer multimedia and distance learning within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Before that I worked as Course Director for the Diploma/BSc in Nursing Studies at the Distance Learning Centre at South Bank University London.
I obtained my General Nursing qualification in Dartford, Kent, and followed this with post registration psychiatric nursing at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals, London. My nursing experience includes staffing in paediatrics, general medicine and neuropsychiatry. I was a Charge Nurse in medicine/dermatology and genito-urinary surgery.
I obtained my teaching qualification at Garnett College, Surrey, and a Masters in Care, Policy and Management at London Guildhall University. Before moving to the South Bank University I taught at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and in a number of Schools of Nursing in and around East London and Essex where I was responsible for Information Management and Technology in the nursing curriculum, and later had responsibility for assessment, curriculum development and academic quality.
Health Informatics Journal
I am Executive Editor of the Health Informatics Journal which was originally published by Churchill Livingstone, but is now published by Sheffield Academic Press. To take a look at the aims, contributors guide and other news about Health Informatics Journal please click here.
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Research
Registered as a postgraduate student in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineeing at Sheffield researching into online education and assessment of professional competence.
Following the award of a Florence Nightingale Scholarship by the Florence Nightingale Foundation.
I visited Dublin and Canada in 1998 to examine the ways in which telematics may be employed to enhance the assessment of Nursing competence. I visited McMasters University, Hamilton and a number of projects using broadband communications in Ottawa followed by a visit to the University of British Columbia, home of WebCT
The report is now available (cost ?3.50) from The Florence Nightingale Foundation (Reps), 1 Grosvenor Crescent, London SW1X 7EE.
Selected IT Related Publications
Dowd C (1991) Widening the Paradigm of Information Technology in Nurse Education. In Procter P. et al (Eds). ENB CAL Project Working IT Together Conference Proceedings.
Dowd C, Barber B & Scholes M (Eds). (1991) Information Technology - Nursing and the Multi-disciplines - Proceedings of the Nursing Specialist Group of the BCS Conference. November 1991
Dowd CD & Jones BT (1992) Nursing CAL - A Blueprint for the Future. Information Technology in Healthcare - A Handbook. IHSM & Longman.
Dowd C (1995) The inhuman face of computer abuse. Health Informatics. (1) 2: 39-40
Dowd C (1995) The National Health Service network: safe in their hands? Health Informatics. (1) 3: pp 83-84
Dowd C (1996) Awaiting the second age of hospital information systems. Health Informatics. (2) 1: pp 1-2.
Dowd C (1996) Curriculum matters. Health Informatics. (2) 2: pp 57-58
Tatlow MT, Dowd CDP & Rainbow-Towers D (1996) Incorporating and exploiting emerging information technology for the delivery of distance learning courses to multidisciplinary healthcare professionals. HCI 96 Proceedings (pp. 151-156). BJHC Books.
Dowd C (1996) Distance learning and electronic delivery: myths, magic and reality. Computers in Nursing & Midwifery Education - The Vision. Conference proceedings. pp 69-79. CTINM Publications.
Dowd C (1996) Drowning not Waving. CTI Nursing and Midwifery Newsletter Vol. 1 No 3. pp 12-13.
Dowd C (1996) HISS - Successful experiment or white elephant? Health Informatics. (2) 3
Dowd C (1997) Bug-eyed monster. News comment piece. Nursing Standard 7 : 12 p16
Dowd CDP (1998) Milenium Bug. Rumanian Nurses Association Journal. March 1998. (translated into Rumanian)
McNeil B, Dowd CDP (1999) The year 2000 Problem: Nursings? Call to Action. Computers in Nursing Plus. January 1, 1999. Vol 2 Number 1
McNeil B, Dowd CDP (1999) Controlling the Millennium Bug. Nursing 99. March. Pp54-55
Dowd C, (1999) An Investigation into the possibilities of employing telematics technology for the assessment of nursing competence. Florence Nightingale Foundation.
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