Mrs Helen Francis-Wenger

I am currently a senior lecturer on the Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Practitioner) and Advanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship programmes within the Faculty of Health under the School of Nursing and Midwifery. I lead on the clinical assessment skills module APP710. I have a passion to drive forward clinical roles within nursing, para-medicine and other allied health professions to equip learners, who are experienced clinicians within their own right, with advanced consultation skills, decision making and diagnostic skills to help the progression of allied health professionals within the NHS. I am still actively working in the NHS as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Medicine which ties in nicely with frameworks such as Heath Education England's (HEE) advanced practice agenda, the RCN Advanced Clinical Practice credentialing service and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) ACP agenda.
I am a nurse by background and have had the most wonderful opportunity to share my time between being an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Medicine in ED at Treliske in Truro as well as teaching on the Advanced Clinical Practice Programme here at UoP. I sit on, and am currently deputy chair of the Association of Advanced Practice Educators (UK) (AAPEUK) and the RCN's ANP forum at a national level. I have recently achieved Senior Fellowship of the Higher education Academy status after completing my PGCert in Academic Practice.

PGCert (Academic Practice) University of Plymouth, 2020

MSc Contemporary HealthCare (Advancing Practice) University of Plymouth, 2018

BSc Specialist Studies (Urgent and Emergency Care) City University, London 2011

Dip(HE) Registered Nurse. Anglia Polytechnic University, Essex 2005

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

RCN Credentialed ANP

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Adult Part 1

Non-medical Prescribing (NMC NMP)

Deputy Chair - Association of Advanced Practice Educators (UK) APPEUK

Deputy Chair of the Association of Advanced Practice Educators (UK) (AAPEUK)
RCN Advanced Nurse Practitioner National Forum Steering Committee Member RCN (ANP Forum)

Taking advanced practice for nursing and allied health professionals to the next level for the next generation of Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
Module lead for APP710 Advanced Clinical Assessment skills
I have undertaken my own learning in the form of a PGCAP (apprentice) to gain my PGCert in academic practice.
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Deputy Chair of the Association of Advanced Practice Educators (AAPEUK) committee

For the purpose of my personal MSc, I focused on the effect of compassion fatigue of nurses working in Emergency Medicine and how this links into the phenomenon of burnout and associated resilience.