Jenny Pinfield

Jenny Pinfield

Senior Lecturer in Child Health/Year Two Progression Lead

Institute of Health & Society

Contact Details

email: j.pinfield@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 85 5365

RGN

RSCN

RNT

ENB 998

BSc (Hons)

PGCE

FHEA

Teaching & Research

Teaching areas

  • Children and young people’s health and well-being
  • Children’s rights
  • Children’s nursing
  • Children with healthcare and nursing needs including complex health care needs
  • End of life care for children
  • Families and parenting/working with parents
  • Professional practice and reflection 

Research Interests

  • Role of the children’s Nurse in Providing Play for the Hospitalised Child
  • Role of nurse teachers in higher education

Professional Experience

  • Nursing and Midwifery Council
  • Royal College of Nursing RCN
  • Research in child health (RiCH)
  • Higher Education Academy
  • Association of British Paediatric Nurses  

Professional Interests

  • Paediatrics Child health and illness
  • Adolescent health and illness
  • Child and adolescent health care provision
  • The hospitalised child
  • Immunisation
  • Play
  • Children's pain
  • Child development
  • Child/family relationships
  • Parenting and families
  • Safeguarding children and children's rights
  • Professional issues in child health nursing

Publications

  • Rouse, J. & Pinfield, J. (2012) Collaborative working in pre-registration nursing education RCN Education Forum Conference and Exhibition, Harrogate
  • Pinfield, J. (2011) Self-harm and parasuicide, withholding and withdrawing curative treatment, post bereavement care chapters in Oxford handbook of emergencies in children’s and young peoples nursing (Glasper, A., Richardson, J. & McEwing, J. eds.) Oxford, Oxford University Press
  • Pinfield J (2011) Research Digest (diabetes in children and young people) Nursing Children and Young People 23, 8, 10  
  • Pinfield J (2011) On the Web (children’s palliative care) Nursing Children and Young People 23, 5, 9  
  • Pinfield, J., Pengelly, T., Rouse, J., Passant, M. (2011) Promoting careers in neonatal nursing Nursing Standard 25, 23, 35-40  
  • Pinfield J (2010) Research Digest (young people’s sexual health) Paediatric Nursing 22, 6, 12  
  • Pinfield J (2010) On the Web (information on young people’s sexual health) Paediatric Nursing 22, 3, 9  
  • Pinfield J (2009) Research Digest (children and young people’s mental health) Paediatric Nursing 21, 3, 10

External Responsibilities