Dr Victoria Payne PhD, RNC, PGCAP
Principal Teaching Fellow and Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
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Vicky qualified as a registered nurse in Paediatrics from King’s College University, London. Post- qualifying, she specialised in neonatal intensive care nursing, completing her neonatal qualified in speciality modules. With a passion for neonatal care and advancing nursing practice, she continued to advance her knowledge and skills by undertaking the Advanced Neonatal Clinical Practice MSc programme.
With a continued drive to improve the quality and safety of neonatal care, she undertook a PhD focusing upon the implementation of complex interventions to reduce neonatal central-line associated infections.
She works as a Principal Teaching Fellow on the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Neonatal) pathway, as a module lead for Advanced Neonatal Studies and Prescribing in Clinical Practice, as well as a group lead for the Research Methods for Evidence Based Practice. She also teaches on a variety of aspects of advanced nursing practice.
She has presented her PhD work at several international conferences, including oral presentations at the European Association of Paediatric Societies conference (2016, 2020), the RCN International Nursing Conference (April 2017), and as a poster at the Neonatal Society meeting (June 2016). She was honoured to be an invited speaker at the international 99NICU conference (2019) and Reason (2020). She has peer-reviewed several papers for publication.
She has also supported the Newborns’ Vietnam educational programme as a volunteer, training and teaching neonatal nurses abroad, and contributes to the 99NICU, an international educational platform for neonatal healthcare professionals. She is a member of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine and the Neonatal Nurses Association.