Mrs Lorraine Diegnan

Principal Lecturer

  • Email Lorraine@wlv.ac.uk
  • Faculty FEHW
  • School School of Nursing
  • Areas of expertise

    My Nursing expertise is Adult Nursing, Surgical Nursing. Breast Cancer care.

    Key areas which I lead on in my current role include.

    v  Inclusivity Diversity and Equality

    v  Fitness to practise school lead/ Panel member

    v  Faculty Board member

    v  Student Engagement

    v  Student enrichment  

    v  Student Rep contact/ support

    v  Pre-placement Compliance 

     

Hello my name is Lorraine Diegnan, I am one of the Heads of Nursing for the undergraduate Pre registration Nursing programme.

I qualified as an Adult Nurse in 1995 and hold a current NMC pin Number. Throughout my nursing career I worked in a variety of surgical areas and specialised in General surgery, Plastics, ENT, orthopaedics , bowel surgery , Urology and Breast Cancer care.

I started working at the university of Wolverhampton in 2005 as a lecturer and have worked in a variety of roles and responsiilites over the last 19 years.

I am passionate about nurse eduaction and my role as aneducator, my priority is to ensure our nursing students achieve successful outcomes and prepare them with the knowledge and skills for the future workforce.

 

Areas of interests

Student engagement

Reasonable adjustments in clinical practice

Equality , Diversity and inclusion.

 

NMC registrant.

Higher Education Academy

Education

v  NMC registration Registration/ revalidation

v  Senior Fellowship 2021

v  MA in Higher Education 2013

v  PG Cert 2006

v  Bachelor in Adult Nursing 2003

v  Diploma in Acute Adult Nursing 

RN Dip HE. 1995

Effect of technology on undertaking nursing observations

  • September 2015 
  • Nursing standard: official newspaper of the Royal College of Nursing 30(3):38-41
  • 30(3):38-41
 

Developing evidence-based practice among students Nurs Times 2011;107(49-50):21-3

Vernel Emanuel 1, Karen Day, Lorraine Diegnan, Maxine Pryce-Miller

Affiliations Expand

PMID: 22239047