- Room 104 number 7, Portland Villas, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- P.Franklin@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Mrs Penny Franklin
Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health)
Non-medical Prescribing and Medication Management Lead. Module leader for Nurse Independent and Supplementary Prescribing and Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Designated Allied Health Professionals. Module lead for Adult Nursing 202 module Personal tutor to pre-registration students .
Fellow of Institute of Health Visiting.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Prescribing Advisor for Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association
Advisor for Community Practitioners Formulary
CPD lead for Association for Prescribers.
Qualifications
SRN, Dip N (Lond), RSCN, RHV, V100 Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber, V300 Nurse Independent and Supplementary Prescriber, MA, PGCE, LTHE Fellow of the Institute of teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Fellow of Institute of Health Visiting
Professional membership
CPHVA. ITLHE. Association of Prescribing.
Institute of Health Visiting
Roles on external bodies
Member of CPHVA Education sub-committee.
Practice advisor to the CPHVA for Non Medical Prescribing
Member of the BNF sub-comittee
CPD lead for the Association of Prescribing
Fellow of Institute of Health Visiting
Teaching interests
Independent and Supplementary Prescribing. Medication management. Assessment and decision making.
Public Health including: Domestic violence, vulnerable adults, homelessness,smoking cessation.
Research interests
Benefits and Risks of Non-medical Prescribing.
Prescribing in rural areas.
The effects of lack of sleep on parents with small children.
Teenagers and smoking cessation.
OSCEs as a form of assessment