Dr Janet Kelly

Dr Janet Kelly

Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Healthcare Law and Ethics

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Nursing and Midwifery

Qualifications

  • MA (Teesside University)
  • LLB (Teesside University)
  • PGCert (University of Hull)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Hull)

Summary

Head of Department of Midwifery and Child Health/ Chair of Unfair Means and Professional Unsuitability Panels/ Chair of Student Misconduct Panels/Schwartz Facilitator/ NMC Chair of Conduct and Competence Committees/ Programme Director BSc (Hons) Health Professional Studies/ Deputy Chair of the Hull York Medical Schools, Research Ethics Committee

Janet is a nurse and midwife who is also qualified in law. She has a passion for teaching midwifery, healthcare law and ethics, particularly military ethics.

She has 30 years of military experience as a regular nursing officer and now as an army reservist at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Janet joined the Faculty of Health Sciences in 2003. Her PhD is entitled Professional, Ethical, and Legal Issues in British Military Healthcare Practice.

She is Chair for the Nursing Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Conduct and Competence Committees, and Deputy Chair of the Hull York Medical School's Research Ethics Committee.

She is also an Army Reservist at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps and has been commissioned for over 30 years.

Healthcare Law and Ethics

Research Ethics

Research Integrity

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Ethical decision-making regarding infant viability: A discussion

Kelly, J., & Welch, E. (2018). Ethical decision-making regarding infant viability: A discussion. Nursing Ethics, 25(7), 897-905. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733016677869

Why not boys? The human papillomavirus vaccine schedule in the UK

Millington, H., & Kelly, J. C. (2016). Why not boys? The human papillomavirus vaccine schedule in the UK. British Journal of School Nursing, 11(9), 438-442. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjsn.2016.11.9.438

"A band of brothers" - an exploration of the range of medical ethical issues faced by British senior military clinicians on deployment to Afghanistan: a qualitative study

Bernthal, E. M., Draper, H. J., Henning, J., & Kelly, J. C. (2017). "A band of brothers" - an exploration of the range of medical ethical issues faced by British senior military clinicians on deployment to Afghanistan: a qualitative study. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 163(3), 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2016-000701

Military healthcare battlefield immunity

Kelly, J. C. (2012). Military healthcare battlefield immunity. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 158(4), 308-312. https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-158-04-06

Using an ethical model to manage patient-soldier confidentiality when medical treatment for post traumatic stress disorder is refused

Kelly, J. C. (2011). Using an ethical model to manage patient-soldier confidentiality when medical treatment for post traumatic stress disorder is refused. Online journal of health ethics, 7(2), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.18785/ojhe.0702.08

Research interests

neonatal ethics, military medical ethics and women's serving and veterans health

Postgraduate supervision

Military healthcare law

Military ethics

Neonatal ethics

NMC Regulatory law

Privacy and Patient confidentiality

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