Staff profile: Dr Ann Gallagher
Position: Visiting Reader in Nursing Ethics
Biography
Ann qualified as a state registered nurse (SRN) at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and as a registered mental nurse (RMN) at West Park Hospital, Epsom. She worked as a staff nurse and then charge nurse in a regional adolescent unit before taking a full-time degree in Philosophy and Health Studies at the University of North London. Ann then completed an MA in Medical and Social Ethics at the University Wales, Cardiff. She completed PhD Studies in 2004 in Professional Ethics at the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.
Ann has worked as a nurse, as a teacher and as a researcher. She is currently engaged in empirical research and theoretical work relating to health and social care, for example, relating to receiving bad news in mental health and dignity in care.
External roles include membership of the South East Research Ethics Committee and the St Christopher’s Hospice Clinical Ethics Committee. Ann is also a member of the Royal College of Nursing Ethics Forum Committee and a member of the management committee of the International Centre of Nursing Ethics based at the University of Surrey. She is a consultant editor on the journals Nursing Ethics and Ethics and Social Welfare and referees papers for Bioethics.
Ann has lectured on nursing ethics in Japan and has been invited to speak at local, national and international conferences. She has recently been invited to participate in a cross cultural ethics research project with an East/West Dialogue conference in Hong Kong.
Interests
Ethics as applied to nursing, health and social care; mental health; medical humanities; and professional education.
Publications
Article
Gallagher, Ann , Arber, Anne , Chaplin, Rob and Quirk, Alan (2010) Service users' experience of receiving bad news about their mental health.
Wainwright, Paul and Gallagher, Ann (2010) Understanding general practitioners' conflicts of interests and the paramountcy principle in safeguarding children.
Urwin, Sharon , Stanley, Robert , Jones, Malcolm , Gallagher, Ann , Wainwright, Paul and Perkins, Andrew (2010) Understanding student nurse attrition: learning from the literature.
Baillie, Lesley , Ford, Pauline , Gallagher, Ann and Wainwright, Paul (2009) Dignified care for children and young people: nurses' perspectives.
Baillie, Lesley , Ford, Pauline , Gallagher, Ann and Wainwright, Paul (2009) Nurses' views on dignity in care.
Gallagher, Ann , Wainwright, Paul , Baillie, Lesley and Ford, Pauline (2009) The RCN dignity survey: implications for leaders.
King, Linda M. , Jackson, Marcus T. , Gallagher, Ann , Wainwright, Paul and Lindsay, Jane (2009) Towards a model of the expert practice educator: interpreting multi-professional perspectives in the literature.
Gallagher, Ann (2008) Book Review of: Inventing human rights: a history by L. Hunt.
Wainwright, P. and Gallagher, A. (2008) Demonstrating dignity.
Gallagher, Ann , Li, Sarah , Wainwright, Paul , Jones, Ian Rees and Lee, Diana (2008) Dignity in the care of older people: a review of the theoretical and empirical literature.
Ford, Pauline , Baillie, Lesley , Gallagher, Ann and Wainwright, Paul (2008) Everything we do.
Wainwright, Paul and Gallagher, Ann (2008) On different types of dignity in nursing care: a critique of Nordenfelt.
Gallagher, Ann (2008) A pilot evaluation of the Arts for Life project in end-of-life care.
Ford, Pauline , Hayward, Mike , Baillie, Lesley , Gallagher, Ann and Wainwright, Paul (2008) Sticking to our principles.
Wainwright, Paul and Gallagher, Ann (2007) Ethical aspects of withdrawing and withholding treatment.
Stanley, Robert , Gallagher, Ann , Eberhardie, Christine and Wainwright, Paul (2007) An introduction to neuroethics: Part 1. The values of ethics and the neurosciences.
Gallagher, Ann (2007) The respectful nurse.
Gallagher, Ann and Wainwright, Paul (2007) Terminal sedation: promoting ethical nursing practice.
Gallagher, Ann (2006) Book review of: Case analysis in clinical ethics by R. Ashcroft [et al.] (eds.).
Gallagher, Ann and Wainwright, Paul (2005) The ethical divide.
Gallagher, Ann (2005) Too clever to care?
Gallagher, Ann (2004) Dignity and respect for dignity - two key health professional values: implications for nursing practice.
Gallagher, Ann and Holland, Lesley (2004) Work-based learning: challenges and opportunities.
Arber, Anne and Gallagher, Ann (2003) Breaking bad news revisited: the push for negotiated disclosure and changing practice implications.
Gallagher, Ann and Belshaw, Christopher (2003) Neither saint nor sinner.
Seedhouse, D and Gallagher, A (2002) Undignifying institutions.
McHale, Jean , Gallagher, Ann and Mason, Isobel (2001) The UK Human Rights Act 1998: implications for nurses.
Book
McHale, Jean and Gallagher, Ann (2003)
Book Section
Gallagher, Ann (2006) The ethics of culturally competent health and social care.
Gallagher, Ann (2006) The teaching of nursing ethics: content and method. Promoting ethical competence.
Baxter, Carol and Gallagher, Ann (2001) Blowing the whistle on racism in services: ethical, professional and legal aspects.
Conference or Workshop Item
Stanley, Robert , Eberhardie, C , Gallagher, A and Smith, S (2007) Neuroethics: exploring issues in theory and practice.
Grants
- Gallagher A; Wainwright P (2007). Faculty grant for Research/Teaching Assistantship commencing September 2007. £40,000
- Gallagher A (2007). Receiving bad news about your mental health pilot project. Nuffield Foundation. 2007-2008
Consultancies
- Open University – writing materials relating to ethics for social work programme and arts level 1 course
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