Ms Fiona Ramsay

Role

Lecturer - Mental Health Nursing (Cornwall campus)

Qualifications

Fiona grew up in Cornwall and trained as a learning disabilities nurse in Surrey and a mental health nurse in London. She has practiced in Australia and Canada as a clinical nurse educator, clinical nurse specialist, health services manager, and university lecturer. Her clinical practice has primarily been in rural and remote community health services. More recently, she has been practicing as a nursing regulator establishing and monitoring standards for mental health nursing practice and mental health nursing education programs in Canada. Fiona recently returned home to Cornwall joining Plymouth University in 2019.

Her interests include:

• Parity of esteem for mental and physical health
• Health inequalities related to people with learning disabilities and/or mental health
• Cultural competence and cultural safety
• Clinical governance, including risk management, patient safety, and quality improvement
• Policy development to support nursing practice

Professional membership

• Fellow Royal Society of Public Health