Biography
Rebecca Brew is an Adult Nurse Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. She is currently the Lead for undergraduate nursing module: Caring for Self and Others within the School of Health and Social Care. She formerly worked as an Adult Nurse for the National Health Service (NHS) for almost three decades. Her nursing background has been in Medical Emergency, Infectious Diseases, Telehealth with focus on Clinical Decision Making and Clinical Supervision and was the Practice Educator for Internationally Educated nurses. She served as the equality, diversity and inclusion representative, supporting persons from Global Majority Heritage in health boards in Scotland. She has worked in United Kingdom, Ghana/West Africa and lived in Geneva/Switzerland. She recently developed a training program tailored to, the Nurses and Midwives Council’s (NMC) Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for Internationally Educated Nurses. She delivered training with a team of nurses and provided Pastoral Care for the Internationally Educated Nurses in a health board in Scotland. She is a Doctoral Candidate, and her research focuses on Internationally educated female West African nurses and their initial transition into the Scottish healthcare workforce: A mixed methods study. Her research interest is in intersectionality, gender, race, social identity and cultural humility. She has a passion for decolonizing the nursing curriculum and spaces. She is currently pursuing her Advance HE Fellowship.