Rhona Williams

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Nursing and Midwifery

Qualifications

  • BSc (University of Glasgow)
  • BSc
  • BSc
  • BSc (Northumbria University)
  • MSc (University of Nottingham)
  • MSc (University of Hull)

Summary

Rhona worked as a midwife and a neonatal nurse for many years, eventually specialising as an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner before her appointment at the University of Hull. She has led a range of pre- and post-registration educational provision, and currently teaches on the pre-registration midwifery and nursing programmes. Her main interest is in neonatal nursing practice.

BSc Midwifery:

- Additional Care: The Neonate (Module Lead)

MSc Midwifery:

- Additional Care: The Neonate (Module Lead)

Master's level short courses:

- Systematic Examination of the Newborn (Course Lead)

- Frenulotomy (Team member)

MSc Advanced Practice

- The Deteriorating Child (Team member)

BSC (Hons) Nursing Child

- Practice 1 Child Nursing (Module Lead)

- Practice 2 Child Nursing (Module Lead)

BSc (Hons) Nursing Adult and BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) Nursing Apprenticeship

- Developing Professional Practice (Team member)

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Nursing children and young people

Jolley, A., Wake, E., Williams, R., Jolley, S., & Elliott, B. (2011). Nursing children and young people. In The nursing companion (229 - 262). Palgrave Macmillan

Journal Article

A meta-ethnographic synthesis of fathers' experiences of the neonatal intensive care unit environment during hospitalization of their premature infants

Sisson, H., Jones, C., Williams, R., & Lachanudis, L. (2015). A meta-ethnographic synthesis of fathers’ experiences of the neonatal intensive care unit environment during hospitalization of their premature infants. Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN, 44(4), 471-480. https://doi.org/10.1111/1552-6909.12662

Commentary on Nyqvist KH, Sorell A & Ewald U (2005) Litmus tests for verification of feeding tube locations in infants: Evaluation of their clinical use. Journal of Clinical Nursing 14, 486-495

Jolley, J., Elliott, B., & Williams, R. (2005). Commentary on Nyqvist KH, Sorell A & Ewald U (2005) Litmus tests for verification of feeding tube locations in infants: Evaluation of their clinical use. Journal of Clinical Nursing 14, 486-495. Journal of clinical nursing, 14(8 A), 1029-1030. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2005.01181.x

Research interests

Neonatal nursing

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

The Hidden Art of the Lullaby

Funder

Hull UK City of Culture 2017

Grant

£3,500.00

Started

1 April 2017

Status

Complete

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Senior Fellow Advance HE

2018 - 2018

NMC Registered Nurse (Adult)

1987 - 2024

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