Nessie Shia

Academic qualifications

• MSc Mental Health Interventions (Middlesex University)
• PG Cert LTHE, RMN (NMC)

Profile

Nessie worked as a community mental health nurse and completed her MSc Mental Health Interventions at Middlesex University. Prior to joining Brunel, her clinical experience includes working in many multi-disciplinary teams,  design, organised a psychosocial interventions programme for service users and carers, have provided mental health training and consultations to health professionals including GPs in the local primary care teams and also the Chinese community. She has researched and published on topics including interdisciplinary and inter-professional learning and teaching, in particular, focuses on the role of community health nurses in mental health promotion and well being for people living with common mental health problems.

Committee responsibilities

• BSc & PG Dip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course committee, Examination Board
• Member of the School Inter-disciplinary/inter-professional group

Admin responsibilities

• Module leader for BSc (Hons) & PG Dip Module HH3219 & HH5584 - Promoting Public Health Practice
• Module leader for BSc (Hons) Module HH3223 – Inter-professional Perspectives in Mental Health Promotion

Other responsibilities

• Engage and involve a service user’s input in learning and teaching, curriculum planning in the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing programme
• Co-ordinating documentation for NMC monitoring events

Teaching responsibilities

I teach across the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing course, seminar tutor for Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy students (HH1103), contribute teaching sessions on contemporary mental health problems to social work students on the Community Care programme SW3063 & SW5512.

Other responsibilities

• Provide tutoring support for community health nursing students
• APEL Co-ordinator: I am responsible for interviewing individual nurse candidate who has insufficient credits to gain entry to study our SCPHN programme.

Research interests

My research interests include a broad range of topics on mental health, focuses on mental health promotion and management.

Medication management

Conducted a local audit project examining the quality of care for people presenting with first episode of psychosis to mental health services in the local area

MSc supervisor for community health nursing students, health promotion and public health students.

I am associated member of North London Mental Health Research Hub Network through my interest in mental health.

Research centres

• Centre for Professional Practice (CPPR)

Conferences

The Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Learning Initiative in Managing Depression. Poster presentation at RCN International Mental Health Nursing Conference, Cardiff, February 2007

The Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Learning Initiative in Managing Depression. Invited Presentation at National Mental Health Nursing Conference at Robinson College, Cambridge, July 2007. Also parallel presentation at Goodenough Conferences in association with the Bio Social Society and Southwest London Academic Network on 5th December 2007.

Other external activities

• Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Publications

Journal Papers

(2013) Shia and Alabi., Male partners' perceptions on antenatal classes in an NHS hospital: Implications for service provision in London, Journal of Perinatal Education 22 ((1)) : 1- 9

(2009) Shia, N., The role of community nurses in the management of depression, Nurse Prescribing 7 (12) : 548- 554

(2008) Shia, N. and Bankole, V., The evaluation of interdisciplinary learning initiative in managing depression, The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work 8 (1) : 31- 50 Download publication

(2008) Shia, N. and Clarke, J., Bringing down the Berlin Wall in academia, Journal of Interprofessional Care 22 (2) : 213- 215 Download publication

(2005) Sayer, L., Griffiths, L., Ryan, L. and Shia, N., An action research project to implement personal development plans into a community specialist practice programme, Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work 6 (3) : 31- 44

(2002) Shia, N. and Marriott, S., Introducing a mental health training programme for practice nurses, Mental Health Practice 5 (5) : 36- 38 Download publication