Dr Sarah Russell RN

About

Nurse Consultant, Trust Lead, Palliative and End of Life Care, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust,
Visiting Clinical Reader, University of Surrey
Visiting Fellow, University of Southampton
Visiting Tutor, Cardiff Medical School
Non Executive Director, End of Life Integrator
Florence Nightingale Foundation Champion
Academic nurse educator, researcher and leader. Family carer.

Employment

• Cardiff University Visiting Clinical Tutor for MSc in Palliative Care
  2023 - Present
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Nurse Consultant, Trust Lead
  2021 - Present
• NHS Professionals Ltd Bank Nurse
  2020 - Present
• University of Surrey Visiting Clinical Reader
  2020 - Present
• Dementia UK Professional and Practice Facilitator
  2019 - Present
• Elsevier Ltd Contributor and commissioner
  2019 - 2020
• St Christopher's Hospice Clinical Advisor
  2019 - 2020
• Peace Hospice Director of Education and Research
  2018 - 2018
• Florence Nightingale Foundation Travel Scholar (dementia, care homes, research, palliative care, advance care planning)
  2018 - 2018
• University of Southampton Visiting Fellow
  2017 - Present
• Social Finance Ltd Non Executive Director and Clinical Advisor
  2016 - Present
• Hayward Medical Communications co-editor
  2016 - 2017
• Hospice UK Head of Research and Clinical Innovation
  2015 - 2018
• NHS England and NHS Improvement London end of life e-learning content and review author
  2011 - 2018
• Health Education England East of England ABC End of Life Project Lead (Care homes, hospice, hospital and community) in Beds, Herts and Luton
  2011 - 2014
• Hospice of St Francis Ltd Director of Education and Research
  2007 - 2014
• University of Hertfordshire Curriculum advisor and visiting lecturer
  2004 - 2014
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Lead Lecturer Practitioner
  2004 - 2007
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Chair: End of Life Education Group (Beds, Herts and Luton)
  2004 - 2006
• Education for Health MSc Palliative Care Module Lead/MSc Supervisor
  2004 - 2004
• Mount Vernon Hospital Clinical Nurse Specialist
  2003 - 2004
• Hospice in the Weald Community Team Leader, Governance Lead, Deputy Director of Nursing
  2000 - 2003

Education

• National Institute for Health and Care Research Good Clinical Practice
  2022 - 2022
• Point of Care Foundation and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Schwartz Round Facilitator
  2022 - 2022
• Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust uDNACPR facilitator and assessor for non-medical practitioners
  2022 - 2022
• Canterbury Christchurch University , Kent Level 7, 20 credits: (Critical Creativity and Practice Development),
  2020 - 2020
• Dementia UK Practice Action Learning Sets Facilitator
  2019 - 2019
• Foundation of Nursing Studies 1 week Practice Development Residential School, Kent
  2019 - 2019
• Hospice of St Francis Ltd uDNACPR facilitator and assessor for non-medical practitioners
  2013 - 2013
• Mount Vernon Hospital Level 2, Psychological Skills Assessment Facilitator
  2012 - 2012
• Mount Vernon Hospital Essential Communication Skills Facilitator/Train the Trainer Facilitator
  2006 - 2006
• Mount Vernon Hospital Clinical Supervision/Action Learning Sets Facilitator/ Train the Trainer
  2005 - 2005
• Mount Vernon Hospital Teaching and Presenting Skills Facilitator/Train the Trainer Facilitator
  2005 - 2005
• Hospice UK Middle management leadership course
  2005 - 2005
• Royal College of Nursing MSc Module Nursing Leadership, (Role of the Palliative Care Nurse Consultant),
  2004 - 2004
• London South Bank University ENB 998 Teaching and Assessing
  1993 - 1994
• Royal Marsden Hospital ENB 237: Oncology
  1991 - 1992
• The Lantern Trust, London ENB: 934 HIV and AIDS
  1990 - 1990
• West Sussex Macmillan Service, Sussex ENB 931: Care of Dying Patient and their Family
  1990 - 1990

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (46)

• Does an enhanced 7 day specialist palliative care service make a difference for people with life limiting illness?
  Evidence Based Nursing 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103882
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• Communication skills
  Handbook of Palliative Care (4th Edition), Kitchen R, Russell S, Wilson J, Faull C ,Wiley Publications 2023
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• Multi-morbidity, Frailty and Dementia
  Handbook of Palliative Care (4th Edition), Kitchen R, Russell S, Wilson J, Faull C ,Wiley Publications 2023
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• Recognising deterioration and Thinking Ahead
  Handbook of Palliative Care (4th Edition), Kitchen R, Russell S, Wilson J, Faull C ,Wiley Publications 2023
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• Using online practice action learning sets for clinical supervision
  Using online practice action learning sets for clinical supervision 2022
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• The Value of Death: bringing death back into life: What does this mean for Nurses?
  2022
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• Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life.
  Lancet Commission 2022
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• ‘Last Breaths’ Last Breaths - Evidence-Based Nursing blog (bmj.com)
  ‘Last Breaths’ Last Breaths - Evidence-Based Nursing blog (bmj.com) 2021
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• Giving the Covid-19 vaccine to people living with dementia
  RCNi 2021
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• Activities delivered at home by family carers to maintain cognitive function in people with dementia socially isolating during COVID-19: Evidence for Non – technology based activities / interventions
  CEBM, Oxford 2020
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