Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University

Personal Information
Surname Forename Title, e.g. Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, Prof
Strumidlo Laura Mrs

Current Position / Title

Principal Lecturer Nursing

Higher Education and Professional Qualifications (latest first)

Year of Award Details
Pending 5th Year EdD – Learning and Learning Contexts
2015 Senior Fellow with the HEA
2011-2012 Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Professional Practice
(PGCHEP)/Nurse Teacher/Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2003 MSc Health Care Ethics
1997 ENB 998 Clinical Teaching and Assessing
1997 ENB 100 General ITU Course
1995 BSc Hons Health Sciences
1992 RGN/ Dip Nursing

Professional Employment (latest first)

Year from - to Details

2010 - 2017 Senior Lecturer Adult Nursing/ End of Life Care, Coventry University
2000 – 2010 Professional Development Sister, Critical Care, HEFT, B’ham
2001 – 2002 Part G Grade Clinical Sister/Professional Development Sister, HEFT, B’ham
1999 – 2000 F Grade Junior Sister and Organ Donation Link Nurse, Solihull ITU, B’ham
1997 – 1999 E Grade Staff Nurse, Heartlands ITU, B’ham
1995 – 1997 E Grade Staff Nurse, Liver ITU, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, B’ham
1994 – 1995 Full time BSc student, Coventry University
1993 – 1994 Staff Nurse, Care of the Elderly, Yardley Green Hospital, B’ham
1992 – 1993 Staff Nurse, Medical Directorate, Selly Oak Hospital, B’ham
1989 - 1992 Student Nurse, South B’ham Health Authority/Diploma Student Birmingham
Polytechnic

Brief details of practice and/or curriculum expertise (maximum of 30 words)

Lead for the four fields of pre-registration nursing courses CU and Scarborough campus, curriculum
development, international partnerships, educational research.
Course Director Pre-Registration Adult Nursing (2012 onwards)
Chair Faculty Research Ethics and Governance Committee
Facilitator for immersive simulation across all of the fields of nursing with the values based pre-registration
nursing curriculum.
Post-registration teaching and assessing, curriculum design across disciplines in End of Life Care,
Health Care Ethics and Law, Lead for End of Life Foundation Degree Pathway development, Module
Leader, Previous Admissions Tutor (4 years). Practice Education Tutor, Personal Tutor, Research Ethics
Reviewer,
Co- Chair HEFT Clinical Ethics Committee.

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Current research and/or scholarly or professional activities (last 2 years – max. of 20 words)
Emotional Resilience in student nurses- Doctoral thesis ongoing
Evaluating the Virtual Ethics Committee in the TYA field- evaluation of online teaching research project
with Maria Cable, Debbie Critoph and Emily Gartshore ongoing at present
Care Clox app to evaluate the practice learning environment with student nurses

Chair of Faculty Research Governance Committee (3.5 years 2014-2017)

Faculty Research Ethics Reviewer
NHS Research Ethics Committee Member (Coventry and Warwickshire)
Previous Co-Chair Clinical Ethics Committee, Heart of England Foundation Trust, B’ham (13 years)

Steering group member for ECQ project for selecting for Compassionate values in pre-registration
health care professions.
2010-2011 Coad,J (PI); Mills, N et al. The development of an e.learning programme around children,
young people and families palliative and complex care needs. Department of Health (DG) Total grant
£517,517 [Module leader for Palliative and End of Life Care for Neonates; Academic contributor for
Communications and Engagement with CYPPCC & Perspectives in CYPPCC]
2010-2011 Coad,J (PI); Mills, N et al. Introduction Module: The development of an e.learning programme
around children, young people and families palliative and complex care needs. Department of Health (DG)
Total grant £97,800 [facilitator]

Advisory Editor, Clinical Ethics, Journal

Member Virtual Ethics Committee for Journal Clinical Ethics
Member Arden Cancer Network
Member Warwick Palliative Research Group

Previous research and/or scholarly activities (if different from above maximum of 30 words)
Year Details
2018 Coaching course-CU
2018
2010-current Values Based Recruitment for Nursing & Health Care Professions
2000-2010 Policy and Guideline Formation/Audit in Clinical Practice
End of Life Care, Withdrawal of Treatment
Physical Restraint
Chaperoning
Liaising with the Police
Mental Capacity Act Trainer
Rapid Response Policy for Ethics Advice
A Definition of Futility

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Publications Details

Hagger,V., Ellis, C. and Strumidlo, L. (2016) Legal and Ethical Issues in Neonatal
Nursing: a case study. Nursing Standard, 30 (44), 48-53.

Draper H, MacDiarmaid-Gordon A, Strumidlo L, Teuten B and Updale E, Virtual

Ethics Committee Case 2: Can we restrain Ivy for the benefit of others? Clinical
Ethics 2006, vol 1, no 2, p68-76.

Draper H, MacDiarmaid-Gordon A, Strumidlo L, Teuten B and Updale E, Virtual

Ethics Committee Case 3: Confidentiality – what are obligations to dead patients?
Clinical Ethics 2006, vol 1, no 3, p121-130.

Draper H, MacDiarmaid-Gordon A, Strumidlo L, Teuten B and Updale E, Virtual

Ethics Committee Case 4: why can’t a dead mother donate a kidney to her son?
Clinical Ethics 2006, vol 1, no 4, p183-191.

Draper H, MacDiarmaid-Gordon A, Strumidlo L, Teuten B and Updale E, Virtual

Ethics Committee Case 5: Can we give a son access to his mother’s psychiatric
notes? Clinical Ethics 2007, vol 2, no 1, p8-15.

Draper H, MacDiarmaid-Gordon A, Strumidlo L, Teuten B and Updale E, Virtual

Ethics Committee Case 6: fear of investigation affects patient care (the Shipman
effect on the administration of opiates in the community) Clinical Ethics 2007, vol
2, no 2, p59-65.

Draper H, MacDiarmaid-Gordon A, Strumidlo L, Teuten B and Updale E, Virtual

Ethics Committee Case 7: what should we do when a pregnant mother consents to
HIV testing and then changes her mind before hearing the result? Clinical Ethics
2007, vol 2, no 3, p113-120.

Draper H, MacDiarmaid-Gordon A, Strumidlo L, Teuten B and Updale E, Virtual

Ethics Committee Case 8: Should non-medical circumstances determine whether a
child is placed on the transplant register when there is a risk of wasting a scarce
organ? Clinical Ethics 2007, vol 2, no 4, p166-172.

Leading an Empowered Organisation 2001 University of Leeds (Leadership Course)

ALERT trainers course 2001 University of Portsmouth (continue to teach regularly
on Alert course at the HEFT)
Advanced Life Support Course 2001/2004 UK Resuscitation Council
Organ Donation Conference Motor Cycle Museum, Birmingham 1999
Organ Donation Link Nurse Training and Breaking Bad News 1999- West Midlands
Transplant Co-ordinators

Conference Papers – abstracts, posters, key notes (best 6 and/or most recent)

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Dates Details
March 2019- RCN Education Conference, presenter Care Clox- Creating Time to Care
for Student Nurses
November 2018-Nurse Training as an Emotional Resilience Journey. Presentation at
University of Birmingham Doctoral Research Conference
Keynote Speaker- International Nurses Day, May 11 th, 2018, Coventry Cathedral
12th May-16th May- Attendee RCN Congress
9th May, attendee, The Florence Nightingale Service, Westminster Abbey
6th Feb 2018, The Nursing Conference, Salford University
February 2017- Facilitator for Internal Clinical Ethics Conference HEFT- Sustaining
Compassionate Practice
July 2016 Ethics Panel Member TYAC Reproductive Issues in Teenage Cancer
Treatment, Leicester
April 2014 Speaker The Rainbow Trust- Ethical Decision Making in Palliative Care
for the Neonate, London
September 2013 Speaker Palliative care for the newborn, Shrewsbury Palliative
Care Group
June 2013 Presentation and Poster- the Virtual live CEC, Strumidlo L, Cable M, Clay
C and Coad J. UKCEN conference Aston University
May 2013 Presentations Shropshire, Staffordshire and Black Country Newborn
Network Palliative Care Day
April 2013 Voting Member and Branch Representative, RCN Congress, Liverpool.
2012 Symposium with Professor Jane Coad. CYPPCC, RCN Children’s Conference,
Leeds
June 2012 Shropshire and Black Country Newborn Network, Presenter Neonatal
Palliative Care and Ethical Issues.
June 2011 How was it for us- reflections on the development of an e-learning
programme in CYPPCC, Cure4Kids Global Summit", St Jude’s Hospital, Memphis, US.
Mental Capacity Act in a clinical area - The Three Network Sharing Event, Banks
Stadium, Walsall 2008.
Advance Decisions – the Mental Capacity Act and its Implication to Practice –
Health Care Events, London, 2008
Supporting Children Bereaved in A and E and ITU, Child Bereavement Charity, B’ham
2008.
Withdrawal of Treatment/Best Practice for End of Life Decision Making in Critical
Care, United National Sharing Event, ICC, B’ham 2004

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