Angie Perrin

Clinical Education Lead, Salts Healthcare

I have over 30 years’ experience within the specialist sphere of stoma care nursing. In my current role as Clinical Education Lead for Salts Healthcare. I have the responsibility for facilitating high quality, evidence-based education to health care professionals keen to enhance their knowledge in stoma care and related areas through both, UK and International Salts Academy. I also support Salts Healthcare marketing activities by offering expert clinical opinion on projects, initiatives and campaigns. From 2002, I worked as the Lead Nurse for Stoma and Colorectal surgery at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK. Here I developed one of the first Nurse-led clinics within the Trust and Nurse-led ileo-anal pouch clinic in the country to offer assessment, review and investigation. I have written extensively in numerous nursing journals on a myriad of aspects associated with the stoma care speciality; setting up nurse led clinic for ileo-anal pouch patients, Exploring individuals’ perceptions of living with a stoma and more recently Sexual health, sexuality and living with a stoma, as well as Neuroaesthetics and the science of the senses: could this be a new world for stoma care? I have also co-edited a book which was published in January 2023 – Stoma Care Specialist Nursing, A Guide for Clinical Practice. For me the publication of this book was a culmination of many months/years collaboratively with Maddie White compiling and editing the superb chapters written by expert clinicians within our speciality. I was very proud to see this wonderful new resource for specialist stoma care nurses come to fruition. Within the same year I was delighted to receive the ASCN UK Chairpersons Award with Maddie White. I have also been fortunate enough to speak at numerous conferences over many years, both Nationally and Internationally often representing the UK at International Conferences. I completed an 8-year term of office for the Association of Stoma Care Nurses (ASCN UK) for the UK, initially as Vice Chairperson and then as Acting Chairperson. I am passionate about developing roles, as well as continuing to enhance the professionalism of stoma care nursing. In 2024 I was honoured to be awarded the Queen’s Nurse title in recognition for my contribution to the specialist sphere of stoma care. Last year I completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education, as well as being awarded FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy). The award from Advance HE is a professional recognition for university educators, for those meeting the Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023) for teaching and learning. It demonstrates commitment to quality teaching.

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