Nicola Ring
nicola ring

Prof Nicola Ring

Professor

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  N.Ring@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Nicola is a qualified nurse (adult and children) and health visitor. After working in all these areas she moved into NHS healthcare management working in various clinical effectiveness/governance posts at local and national level.

Nicola started her academic career in 2002 and has since worked on adult and child nursing pre-registration programmes. She has extensive experience of developing health researchers through post-graduate module and programme leadership as well as supervision of masters and doctoral students. Nicola is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She is an experienced researcher and principal investigator. Her key research focus is on the (self-) management of long-term conditions in children and adults. Her PhD (2013) was a critical analysis of evidence based practice – the case of asthma action plans. Increasingly her research focuses on the mental health and well-being of children and young people.

Her methodological expertise is in qualitative evidence synthesis using meta-ethnography. She was a member of the eMERGe team which secured NIHR funding to develop innovative international guidance aimed at improving transparency and quality of meta-ethnography reporting.

Nicola is passionate about the social history of nursing and has expert knowledge of the topic. She strongly believes that understanding the profession's past including issues of gender, power, race and ethnicity helps nurses better understand contemporary issues affecting health care practice and policy.

Nicola welcomes contact from potential collaborators and research students.

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Does health literacy in respiratory patients impact on their rating of important topics for education in pulmonary rehabilitation?

Presentation / Conference
Roberts, N. J., McAlooney, K., Ring, N., Ray, E., Turnbull, L., Jelen, T., & Porter-Armstrong, A. (2024, May)
Does health literacy in respiratory patients impact on their rating of important topics for education in pulmonary rehabilitation?. Poster presented at 12th IPCRG World Conference, Athens, Greece

Suicide prevention: Introducing the Lothian Safekeeping Plan © for parents as a clinical innovation for use alongside safety plans for children and young people

Journal Article
Abbott‐Smith, S., Dougall, N., & Ring, N. (2024)
Suicide prevention: Introducing the Lothian Safekeeping Plan © for parents as a clinical innovation for use alongside safety plans for children and young people. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 37(1), Article e12455. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcap.12455
Topic: Internationally, preventing suicide in children and young people is a priority and there are a range of preventative approaches available for health professionals to us...

What do pulmonary rehabilitation participants want their educational sessions to comprise of? Exploring a participant-centered approach to designing pulmonary rehabilitation education

Journal Article
Roberts, N. J., McAloney-Kocaman, K., Ring, N., Ray, E., Turnbull, L., Jelen, T., & Porter-Armstrong, A. (in press)
What do pulmonary rehabilitation participants want their educational sessions to comprise of? Exploring a participant-centered approach to designing pulmonary rehabilitation education. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,

Healers and Midwives Accused of Witchcraft (1563-1736) - What Secondary Analysis of the Scottish Survey of Witchcraft Can Contribute to the Teaching of Nursing and Midwifery History

Journal Article
Ring, N., McHugh, N. M., Reed, B. B., Davidson-Welch, R., & Dodd, L. S. (2024)
Healers and Midwives Accused of Witchcraft (1563-1736) - What Secondary Analysis of the Scottish Survey of Witchcraft Can Contribute to the Teaching of Nursing and Midwifery History. Nurse Education Today, 133, Article 106026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2023.106026
Background: Nearly 4000 people were accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563-1736. Some of these were healers, midwives, and nurses. Objective: To investigate Scotland’...

Which reporting guideline should I use and why?

Journal Article
Aveyard, H., Bradbury‐Jones, C., Ring, N., & Flemming, K. (in press)
Which reporting guideline should I use and why?. Journal of Clinical Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16548

Suicide prevention: Safety Plans Intervention for children and Young People - a scoping review of effectiveness

Digital Artefact
Abbott-Smith, S., Ring, N., Dougall, N., & Davey, J. (2021)
Suicide prevention: Safety Plans Intervention for children and Young People - a scoping review of effectiveness. [https://osf.io/scnhg/]
The aim of this scoping review is to identify and map the available evidence around effectiveness of Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) for Children and young people (CYP), as...

Understanding the complexities of antibiotic prescribing behaviour in acute hospitals: a systematic review and meta-ethnography

Journal Article
Wojcik, G., Ring, N., McCulloch, C., Willis, D. S., Williams, B., & Kydonaki, K. (2021)
Understanding the complexities of antibiotic prescribing behaviour in acute hospitals: a systematic review and meta-ethnography. Archives of Public Health, 79(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-00624-1
Background: Antimicrobial resistance poses a serious global public health threat. Hospital misuse of antibiotics has contributed to this problem and evidence-based interventio...

What constitutes effective problematic substance use treatment from the perspective of people who are homeless? A systematic review and meta-ethnography

Journal Article
Carver, H., Ring, N., Miler, J., & Parkes, T. (2020)
What constitutes effective problematic substance use treatment from the perspective of people who are homeless? A systematic review and meta-ethnography. Harm Reduction Journal, 17, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-020-0356-9
Background: People experiencing homelessness have higher rates of problematic substance use but difficulty engaging with treatment services. There is limited evidence regardin...

Patients’ experiences of emergency hospital care following self-harm: Systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research

Journal Article
MacDonald, S., Ring, N., Biddle, L., Turley, R., Begley, R., Sampson, C., & Evans, R. (2020)
Patients’ experiences of emergency hospital care following self-harm: Systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research, 30(3), 471-485. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732319886566
Rates of hospital presentation for self-harm have increased in recent years and although clinical practice guidelines on clinical provision prioritise positive patient experie...

The views and experiences of suicidal children and young people of mental health support services: A meta-ethnography.

Journal Article
Gilmour, L., Ring, N., & Maxwell, M. (2019)
The views and experiences of suicidal children and young people of mental health support services: A meta-ethnography. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 24(3), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12328
Background: Suicide is amongst the leading causes of death in young people globally and a health priority worldwide. For children and young people (CYP) attempting or consid...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Previous external funding

Current Post Grad projects

Previous Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • The views and experience of children and young people who have used mental health support services following self-harm or suicidal behaviours
  • Perspectives on the role of hospital nurses in paediatric asthma management in Saudi Arabia: an extended case study method in comparative settings to explore individual, institutional and socio-cultural factors