Andrea-Lorien Stebbings

• Associate Professor in Midwifery Education- School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health)
•  SNAM Inter-professional Learning Academic Lead for PIHC ( Plymouth Integrative Health and social care education)
• PDT Academic Lead -Royal Devon University Healthcare Foundation Trust (Northern)
• Professional Midwifery Advocate
• Link Lecturer - Royal Devon University Healthcare Foundation Trust (Northern) - Maternity (Acute and Community)
• Module Lead A-EQUIP (Advocacy and Education for Quality Improvement in Practice)
• Module Lead Family Planning and Women's Health in Primary Care
• Academic Assessor 

Royal College of Midwives
Royal College of Nursing
Association for Improvement in Maternity Services
Association of Radical Midwives
Baby Milk Action

2022 Expert Reference Group on Education Standards for Professional Nurse Advocates - member 2021-present -NHSE/HEI/ Trust Lead National Network for Professional Nurse Advocacy - member
2021- present - National Professional Midwifery Advocate Steering Committee - member
2021-present - National Academic Professional Midwifery Advocate Network - member and workstream contributor/ developer
2020 - present Case Examiner - Nursing and Midwifery Council
2019- 2022 Midwifery Forum Committee Member - Royal College of Nursing represent the RCN:

• Newborn Genomes Programme - NHS steering group
• ERG RCN education / ilearn platforms
• Maternity Support Workers oversight group - national group

2017- present Professional Midwifery Advocate
2010 - present Expert witness (Midwifery) Defence and Claimant cases
2009 - 2017 Registrant Panellist Fitness to Practise - Nursing and Midwifery Council
2003-2016 Advisory Faculty ALSO (UK) - Advanced Life Support Obstetrics
1999- 2017 Supervisor of Midwives - South West Local Supervising Authority

Supervisor to the following Postgraduate Master's students;

• MSc Advance Professional Practice "Partner notification in a sexual health service- utilising practice development and quality improvement" completed 2023
• MSc Advance Professional Practice "Supporting physiotherapy transition to advanced practice level working using practice development methods" completed 2023
• MSc Advance Professional Practice "Developing a NIV (non invasive) prescription and record chart to improve NIV treatment for acute exacerbation of COPD within the respiratory unit"  completed 2023
• MSc Advance Professional Practice " Implementation of a Neonatal Skin Assessment Tool (NSAT) for premature and sick infants who require neonatal Tertiary Care" completed 2022
• MSc Advanced Professional Practice "Management of the introduction of an electronic proforma into a local Trusts’ heart revascularisation multidisciplinary team meeting". completed 2020
• MSc Advanced Professional Practice " A service development project to improve the information given to women for the induction of labour process within maternity services" completed 2020
• MSc Contemporary Healthcare (Education) " What are the most effective methods of assuring clinical skills acquisition in simulation settings in undergraduate student nurses, peer-to-peer or lecturer led methods?" completed 2020
• MSc Contemporary Healthcare (Education): “An exploration of Assistant Practitioner’s (Nursing) experiences of joining an undergraduate nursing degree programme.” completed 2019
•  MSc Advanced Professional Practice: "Introducing a Safeguarding Domestic Abuse Screening Tool In The Emergency Department" completed 2019
•  MSc Contemporary Healthcare  "GP's perceptions of increasing paediatric acute referrals" completed 2018

 

Professional Advocacy- Nursing and MidwiferyInterprofessional communication and education
Maternity emergency management (skills and human factors)
Teamworking
Professional regulation
Sustainability in workforce development
Midwifery Practice
Impact of scrutiny on the professions
Midwifery Developer and Link for the Physician Associate Programme
Midwifery Developer and Link for Medlaw (interdisciplinary learning project)
Midwifery Lead - Digital Champions

Twitter lead @UOPMAS: University of Plymouth Midwives, Alumni and StudentsTwitter lead @Peninsuar PMA's
Twitter lead@PNA21