Waverley Public - Diane Marks-Maran | Public Governors

An American by birth I have live in the UK since 1970. I rained as a nurse at The Royal London Hospital, qualifying in 1975.  I held staff nurse posts at the London before being appointed as research assistant in the newly created nursing research unit at The London and undertook a 15month project on how instructions are given to junior nurses and student nurses by ward sisters, and how these instructions are interpreted and implemented.  This lead to the creation of nursing care plans.  My colleague, Jennifer Hunt and I published a book on our work in 1978. I undertook the post graduate course in cancer nursing at the Royal Marsden Hospital and became Ward Sister there, a post I held until 1981. I then was seconded to undertake the Postgraduate diploma in nursing education which I completed in 1982 and was appointed nurse tutor at St Bartholomew School of Nursing. During my time at St Bartholomew’s I was seconded by MacMillan Cancer Support to create and run a postgraduate oncology nursing course.  In 1990 I moved to Queen Charlotte’s College of Health Studies in an educational management role and was actively involved in the transfer of the College into Thames Valley University (now University of West London). I completed a Masters Degree in Education awarded by the University of Manchester.  From 1995 until 2002 I created and ran the Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Health Faculty. I retired from the University in 2002 and established a consultancy company in Health Care Education which I ran for 18 years with contracts from The Quality Assurance Agency, Universities and Trusts. My work involved standard setting for nursing and midwifery education, and undertaking evaluation research in teaching and learning.

Email: diane.marks-maran@nhs.net