Sara White

Professor Sara White

  • Emeritus Professor
  • Bournemouth Gateway Building BG507a, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP
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Biography

I am the Deputy Dean (Education and Professional Practice) - the Faculty of Health and Social Science (FHSS). I qualified as a Nurse in 1986 and obtained my first Sisters post in Intensive Care and Coronary Care in 1989 in St Mary Hospital London. In 1998 I moved into academia. I have held many leadership and management positions in BU including Principal Academic, Nursing Framework Leader and Associate Dean Student Experience. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I have a passion for the future generation of nurses and inter / multi-disciplinary working. I also vehemently believe in fairness, transparency and quality provision and seek to reflect these both with student and peers. My publications and research reflect my passions of nursing caring values, humanizing nursing care, compassion in caring and contra-power harassment.

Journal Articles

  • Jadzinski, M., White, S., 2024. Exploring academics’ views of fitness to practise in higher education. Nursing Times.
  • Jadzinski, M., White, S., Way, S., Mylod, D., 2023. How are fitness to practise processes applied in UK higher education institutions? − A systematic review. Nurse Education in Practice, 71.
  • Christensen, M., Craft, J., White, S., 2021. “I've had horrible things said about me”: An inductive content analysis of nursing academic experiences of contra-power harassment from undergraduate nursing students. Nurse Education in Practice, 54.
  • White, S., Tait, D., Scammell, J., 2021. Nursing students’ evolving professional values: Capturing their journey through co-operative inquiry. Nurse Education in Practice, 54.
  • White, S., Christensen, M., 2020. Incivility from Undergraduate Nursing Students in the United Kingdom. Integrative Journal of Nursing and Medicine, 1 (1), 2-7.
  • Christensen, M., Craft, J., White, S., 2020. Nurse academics' experience of contra-power harassment from under-graduate nursing students in Australia. Nurse Education Today, 84.
  • Rosser, E.A., Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., Phillips, J., Cooper, K., Donaldson, I., Hemingway, A., 2019. Caring values in undergraduate nurse students: A qualitative longtitudinal study. Nurse Education Today, 77, 65-70.
  • Christensen, M., White, S., Dobbs, S., Craft, J., Palmer, C., 2019. Contra-power harassment of nursing academics. Nurse Education Today, 74, 94-96.
  • White, S.C., Scarlett, J.M., Levy, J.K., 2018. Characteristics of clients and animals served by high-volume, stationary, nonprofit spay-neuter clinics. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 253 (6), 737-745.
  • White, S., Stainer, L., Cooper, K., Waight, S., 2018. The personal tutor as a role model for students: Humanising nursing care. British Journal of Nursing, 27 (1), 52-55.
  • White, S., Stainer, L., Cooper, K., Waight, S., 2018. The personal tutor as a role model for students: humanising nursing care. British Journal of Nursing, 27 (1).
  • White, S.C., 2018. Veterinarians’ Emotional Reactions and Coping Strategies for Adverse Events in Spay-Neuter Surgical Practice. Anthrozoos, 31 (1), 117-131.
  • Scammell, J., Tait, D., White, S., Tait, M., 2017. Challenging nurse student recruitment policy: using a lifeworld approach to explore the link between care experience and student values. Nursing Open, 4 (4).
  • Scammell, J., Tait, D., White, S., Tait, M., 2017. Challenging nurse student selection policy: Using a lifeworld approach to explore the link between care experience and student values. Nursing Open, 4 (4), 218-229.
  • Scammell, J., Tait, D., White, S., Tait, M.. Challenging nurse student selection policy: using a lifeworld approach to explore the link between care experience and student values. Nursing Open, 4 (4).
  • Griffin, B., Bushby, P.A., McCobb, E., White, S.C., Rigdon-Brestle, Y.K., Appel, L.D., Makolinski, K.V., Wilford, C.L., Bohling, M.W., Eddlestone, S.M., Farrell, K.A., Ferguson, N., Harrison, K., Howe, L.M., Isaza, N.M., Levy, J.K., Looney, A., Moyer, M.R., Robertson, S.A., Tyson, K., 2016. The association of shelter veterinarians’ 2016 veterinary medical care guidelines for spay-neuter programs. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 249 (2), 165-188.
  • Phillips, J., Cooper, K., Rosser, E., Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., Donaldson, I., Jack, E., Hemingway, A., Harding, A., 2015. An exploration of the perceptions of caring held by students entering nursing programmes in the United Kingdom: A longitudinal qualitative study phase 1. Nurse Education in Practice.
  • White, S., 2013. . Retaining Non Standard Students in Health and Social Care. Higher Education Academy 2nd Ed Compendium of Effective Practice..
  • White, S.J., 2013. Student nurses harassing academics. Nurse Education Today, 33 (1), 41-45.
  • White, S., 2012. Student life-When the going gets tough. Nurs Stand, 26 (38), 64.
  • White, S., 2012. "Dignity is integral to nursing, not something you learn to 'deliver'". Nurs Times, 108 (11), 7.
  • White, S., 2012. When the going gets tough. Nursing Standard, 26 (38), 64.
  • White, S.J., 2011. Student nurses harassing academics. Nurse Education Today.
  • White, S.C., Jefferson, E., Levy, J.K., 2010. Impact of publicly sponsored neutering programs on animal population dynamics at animal shelters: The new Hampshire and Austin experiences. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 13 (3), 191-212.
  • White, S., 2009. Lecturers who are abused and harassed by students. Nurs Stand, 23 (47), 33.
  • Looney, A.L., Bohling, M.W., Bushby, P.A., Howe, L.M., Griffin, B., Levy, J.K., Eddlestone, S.M., Weedon, J.R., Appel, L.D., Rigdon-Brestle, Y.K., Ferguson, N.J., Sweeney, D.J., Tyson, K.A., Voors, A.H., White, S.C., Wilford, C.L., Farrell, K.A., Jefferson, E.P., Moyer, M.R., Newbury, S.P., Saxton, M.A., Scarlett, J.M., 2008. The Association of Shelter Veterinarians veterinary medical care guidelines for spay-neuter programs. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 233 (1), 74-86.
  • White, S., 2008. Bullying Upwards. Nursing Standard, 22 (20), 62-63.

Books

Chapters

  • Robertson, S., White, S., 2019. Cesarean section. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 267-280.
  • White, S., 2019. Fundamentals of HQHVSN. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 439-451.
  • White, S., 2019. MASH clinics. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 601-613.
  • White, S., Isaza, N., 2019. Infectious disease control in spay-neuter facilities. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 89-101.
  • White, S., 2019. Health considerations for the HQHVSN surgeon. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 553-573.
  • Bushby, P., White, S., 2019. Dog spay/cat spay. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 241-265.
  • Burton, A., White, S., 2019. Instrumentation for spay-neuter. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 53-63.
  • Bushby, P., White, S., 2019. Dog neuter/cat neuter. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 281-294.
  • Griffin, B., White, S., Root Kustritz, M.V., 2019. Disorders of sexual development and common reproductive pathologies. High Quality High Volume Spay and Neuter and Other Shelter Surgeries. 27-51.
  • Tait, D., White, S., 2018. Humanised care and clinical decision making in critical care. In: Tait, D., White, S., eds. Critical Care Nursing: the Humanised Approach. London: SAGE Publications Limited, 5-34.
  • Tait, D., White, S., 2018. What triggers critical illness? In: Tait, D., White, S., eds. Critical Care Nursing: the Humanised Approach. London: SAGE Publications Limited, 35-68.
  • Tait, D., White, S., 2018. Acute kidney injury- case study Brian. In: Tait, D., eds. Critical Care Nursing: the Humanised Approach. London: SAGE Publications Limited, 135-160.
  • Tait, D., Gagan, M., 2018. legal and ethical issues in critical care- case study Mrs B. In: Tait, D., White, S., eds. Critical Care Nursing: the Humanised Approach. London: SAGE Publications Limited, 223-242.
  • Tait, D., White, S., 2018. The impact of critical illness on recovery and rehabilitation. In: Tait, D., White, S., eds. Critical Care Nursing: the Humanised Approach. London: SAGE Publications Limited, 243-258.
  • White, S., Lowe, F., 2018. Chapter 3: Ann & David: Respiratory Failure. White, S & Tait, D. (2018). Critical Care Nursing - The Humanised Approach. Sage.
  • White, S., Lowe, F., 2018. Chapter 5: Michael: Cardiac Failure. White, S & Tait, D. (2018). Critical Care Nursing - The Humanised Approach.. Sage.
  • White, S., Lowe, F., 2018. Chapter 7: Rebecca: Gastrointestinal Disorder. Critical Care Nursing - The Humanised Approach. Sage.
  • White, S., Lowe, F., 2018. Chapter 8: Conner: Endocrine disorder. Critical Care Nursing - The Humanised Approach.. Sage.
  • White, S., Lowe, F., 2018. Chapter 9: Richard and Steven: Neurological damage. Critical Care Nursing - The Humanised Approach. Sage.
  • White, S., Phillips, J., Stainer, L., 2013. Retaining Non Standard Students in Health and Social Care. In: Clark, R., Andrews, J., Thomas, L., Aggarwal, R., eds. Compendium of effective practice in higher education: Volume 2. Aston University, Birmingham, and the Higher Education Academy, York,, 105-108.

Conferences

  • Scammell, J., Tait, D., White, S., 2019. Nurse students have the ‘right’ values but how do they retain them? Exploring the impact of a curriculum based on a humanising philosophy on student values from pre-registration programme commencement through to completion. In: STTI 4th European Region Conference 03/06/2018 Cambridge UK.
  • Stainer, L., Cooper, K., White, S., Waight, S., 2018. Academic Advisor (personal tutor) role modelling a humanising approach: how & why? In: Humanising Care Conference 21/06/2018 Bournemouth University.
  • Stainer, L., Waight, S., White, S., Cooper, K., 2018. The role of the personal tutor in Student Nurses personal and professional development in becoming a caring and compassionate nurse. In: Sigma 4th European Region Conference 05/06/2018 Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge.
  • Scammell, J., Tait, D., White, S., 2018. Nursing students’ values from selection to qualification: a longitudinal study of how students describe their values when exposed to a curriculum based on a humanising philosophy. In: NETNEP 2018 06/05/2018 Banff, Canada.
  • White, S., stainer, L., Cooper, K., Waight, S., 2018. Academic Advising For Success: The Role of the Academic Adviser on a pre-registration nursing programme. In: UK Advising and Tutorial conference 2017 05/04/2017 Leeds Trinity University.
  • Scammell, J., Donaldson, I., White, S., Tait, D., Ryden, J., Brown, P., Stainer, L., 2017. Role of class size on student learning and staff satisfaction: a mixed method study. In: NET2017: Networking for Education in Healthcare 05/09/2017 Churchill College, Cambridge.
  • Rosser, E., Scammell, J., Rosser, E., Phillips, J., Cooper, K., White, S., Heaslip, V., Hemingway, A., Donaldson, I., 2016. Learning about the complexity of humanised care: findings from a longitudinal study of nurse students’ perceptions. In: 27th International Networking for Healthcare Education Conference 06/09/2016 Cambridge, England.
  • Scammell, J., Tait, D., White, S., 2016. Using a lifeworld approach to explore nurse student values: a longitudinal study. In: 3rd European Conference of STTI Nursing Scholarship Society 05/06/2016 Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • Scammell, J., Rosser, E., Hemingway, A., Phillips, J., Cooper, K., Heaslip, V., White, S., Donaldson, I., 2015. Nurturing caring values in pre-registration nurse education: a qualitative longitudinal study. In: STTI Honours Nursing Society Biennium Conference 08/11/2015 Las Vegas, USA.
  • Rosser, E., Scammell, J., Hemingway, A., Cooper, K., Phillips, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., Donaldson, I., 2015. Caring Values of Nursing Students: the impact of education. In: Biennial Convention of Sigma Theta Tau International 07/11/2015 Las Vagas.
  • Rosser, E., Scammell, J., Hemingway, A., Cooper, K., Phillips, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., Donaldson, I., 2015. The Effect of Education on the Caring Values of Nursing Students. In: 26th International Networking for Healthcare Education Conference 08/09/2015 Cambridge.
  • White, S., White, S.J., Tait, D., Scammell, J., 2014. Qualitative Analysis of the Value Base of Student Nurses. In: SRHE Annual Confernce 10/12/2014 Newport, Wales.
  • Rosser, E., Hemingway, A., Harding, A., Cooper, K., Donaldson, I., Heaslip, V., Jack, E., Phillips, J., Scammell, J., White, S., 2013. Do students enter nursing programmes with a caring disposition? An exploration of the qualities and values held by students entering pre-registration nursing in one English University. In: 24th International Networking for Healthcare Education 03/09/2013 Cambridge, UK. 3.9.13.
  • Phillips, J., Cooper, K., Rosser, E., Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., Donaldson, I., Hemingway, A., Jack, E., Harding, A., 2013. To explore the impact of a humanising curriculum on new nursing recruits' personal beliefs about the core values of nursing. In: 24th International Networking for Healthcare Education 03/09/2013 Cambridge, UK.
  • Rosser, E.A., Hemingway, A., Harding, A., Jack, E., Cooper, K., Phillips, J., Scammell, J., Heaslip, V., White, S., Donaldson, I., 2013. An exploration of the perceptions of caring held by students entering nursing programmes. In: 24th International Networking for Healthcare Education Conference 02/09/2013 Cambridge.
  • Rosser, E., Hemingway, A., Harding, A., Cooper, K., Donaldson, I., Heaslip, V., Jack, E., Phillips, J., Scammell, J., White, S., 2013. Putting patients at the heart of nursing care: an exploratory study of student values entering pre-registration nursing in one UK University. In: Inaugural Phi Mu Chapter conference 20/06/2013 Bournemouth UK. 20.6.13.

PhD Students

  • Megan Jadzinski. Exploring the views of academic faculty members, on the Fitness to Practice process, from pre-registration to post-registration, (In progress)
  • Carolyn Richardson, 2020. African-Caribbean Women’s Stories of Migration, Motherhood and Their Cultural Practices
  • Julie Northam, 2020. How do markers of class and gender influence decision making when recruiting and promoting academics in English universities
  • Sue Sutton, 2026. What is the maximum opportunity for urgent and emergency treatments outside of a hospital environment to avoid conveyance by ambulance to the emergency department (ED); and what would be required to support it?
  • Karen Cooper. Experiences of Practice assessment
  • Debbee Houghton. Using midwives perspectives to unravel medicine management in contemporary practice

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Practice Portfolio
  • Care of Cleints with Acute and Chronic conditions
  • Managing Complex Conditions
  • Reviewing the Literature to Inform Professional Practice

Grants

  • Education Provider Simulated Learning Environments (Health Education England, 01 Feb 2022). Awarded
  • Newly Qualified Practitioners Recovery Programme (Health Care Education England, 24 Mar 2021). Awarded
  • The Value base of Student Nurses entering Nurse Education. Stage 2. (Bournemouth university, 09 Feb 2015). Awarded
  • Pain Management e-learning Resource Project (Bournemouth University, 01 Aug 2014). Awarded
  • Pain Management e-learning Resource Project (Bournemouth University, 01 Aug 2014). Awarded
  • Complementary Qualitative study to the ‘Velcade at Home trail’ (Bournemouth Hospital, 30 Apr 2009). Awarded

External Responsibilities

  • CAVA - AECC, External Moderator (2017-2018)
  • CAVA - Bournemouth& Poole College, External Moderator (2017-2018)
  • Hertfordshire University, Exteranl Examiner for BSc (Hons) and MA Nursing (-2018)

Internal Responsibilities

  • Acting Deputy Dean Education and Professional Practice, FHSS

Conference Presentations

  • Humanising Care, Health and Wellbeing, Critical Care Nursing - a humanised approach, 21 Jun 2018, Bournemouth
  • Humanising Care, Health and Wellbeing, Academic Advisor (personal tutor) role modelling a humanising approach: How & Why?, 21 Jun 2018, Bournemouth University
  • Sigma 4th Biennial European Conference June 2018, Nurse Students have the 'right' values but how do they retain them? Exploring the impact of a curriculum based on a humanising philosophy on student values from pre-registration programme commencement, 04 Jun 2018, Anglia Ruskin University. Cambridge. UK
  • STTI 4th biennial European Conference June 2018, The role of the personal tutor in student nurses personal and professional development to become a caring and compassionate nurse, 04 Jun 2018, Anglia Ruskin University. Cambridge, UK
  • 3rd STTI European Conference, Using a Life-world Approach to Explore Nurse Students’ Values, 01 Jun 2016, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Biennial Convention of Sigma Theta Tau International, Caring Values of Nursing Students: the impact of education, 01 Nov 2015, Gothenberg
  • 26th International Networking for Healthcare Education Conference, The Effect of Education on the Caring Values of Nursing Students, 01 Sep 2015, Cambridge
  • 2nd Biennial Conference of the Phi Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, The impact of education on values-based care: the student perspective, 01 Jun 2015, Leeds
  • Society into Research for Higher Education Annual Research Conference 2014., Exploring the Value Base of students entering Nursing, 01 Dec 2014, Wales
  • Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society 2nd European Conference, Evolving perceptions of caring during the first year of a nurse education programme: Interim findings from a longitudinal study, 01 Jun 2014, Cambridge
  • Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society 2nd European Conference, Exploring the value-base of students entering nursing., 01 Jun 2014, Gothenburg
  • International Nurses Day., Celebrating Nursing in Challenging Times, 01 May 2014, BU
  • BU Service Excellence, PDU Tracking Non Standard Undergraduate Students, 01 Dec 2013, BU
  • 22nd International Networking for Education in Healthcare Conference. NET, Caring Project, 01 Sep 2013, Cambridge
  • Inaugural Phi Mu Chapter conference, Putting patients at the heart of nursing care: an exploratory study of student values entering pre-registration nursing in one UK University, 01 Jun 2013, BU
  • Salisbury District NHS Foundation Trust Senior Nurse Forum., BU Undergraduate Nurse Education, 01 May 2013, SDH
  • Preceptorship programme for Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Foundation Trust, Effective working relationships, 01 Oct 2012, RBH

Qualifications

  • PG Cert Research Supervision in Research Supervision (Bournemouth University, 2010)
  • Doctor of Education in Education (Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, 2009)
  • MA Professional Development (PCE) in Education (Bournemouth University, 2001)
  • Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching in HE - Registered Nurse teacher (Bournemouth University, 1999)
  • Diploma In Health Service Management in Health Service Management (1995)
  • BSC (Hons) in Nursing Studies (Bournemouth University, 1994)
  • Registered General Nurse in Nursing (UKCC, 1986)

Memberships

  • UKAT, Member (2017-2018),
  • Royal College of Nursing, Member (1983-),
  • Nursing and Midwifery Council, Member (1983-),
  • Higher Education Academy, Senior Fellow,
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