Mr Ruari Cassidy
Profiles

Mr Ruari Cassidy

Lecturer in Clinical Intercalation

School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health)

Biography

Biography

After completion of my training at Argyll and Clyde School of Nursing and Midwifery I worked as a D grade in Respiratory Medicine and Coronary Care before moving to Critical Care.

Clinical experience in Critical Care and Cardiothoracic Critical Care from D grade through to Charge Nurse across Dorset, Devon, Yorkshire and Manchester before holding posts as a practitioner within Critical Care Outreach, Practice Education and as ICU Matron.

More recently I have brought this experience into an academic role as a lecturer in Clinical Intercalation at the University of Plymouth.

My areas of interest are in Urgent and Critical Care, High Dependency care education for midwives as well as Strategic and Humanistic leadership.

Qualifications

Masters (Clinical) Education

NMC Tutor Status 

PGCE

Various post-reg qualifications in Critical Care, resus and organisational development

Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

High Dependency Care for Midwives - Delivery of Post-Grad Modules

Critical Care and Urgent Care - Programme Lead for Urgent and Emergency Care / Critical Care BSc (Intercalated)

Quality Improvement - Module Lead UEC607 (Urgent, emergency and critical care: leadership and innovation)

Publications

Publications

Journals

Cassidy, R. (2021) ‘Identifying and exploring resistance to the Registered Nursing Associate Role’, British Journal of Healthcare Management, 27(12), pp. 1–5. doi:10.12968/bjhc.2021.0091.

Conference Papers

A James (presenter), R. Cassidy, J. Urben, S.J. Pedler, Z. Nelson, A. Bellamy, J. Nemeth, S. Nash, E. Morley (2021) ‘The development of sustainable high dependency care education for midwives in Cornwall (UK) using a collaborative patchwork approach’. International Confederation of midwives (ICM) Virtual Triennial online Congress 9-30th June. Oral presentation 30th June.