Maria Ponto & Julia Gale
Kingston University and St. George’s University of London, UK
Biography
Maria Ponto has many years of nursing experience before going into Education. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and leads a team of 9 academics. She designed the MSc in Clinical Leadership in 2006 and run this course in Kingston and St. Petersburg, Russia for 3 years and in Kingston until 2017. She is passionate about the future of healthcare education and firmly believes that education must be relevant to practice and that workforce development should be given more prominence. She is currently leading on an evaluation project, examining ways to improve staff retention in London.
Julia Gale has strategic responsibility for the leadership and management of a School of Nursing in the UK. She has extensive experience of leading the development and delivery of pre-registration nursing and continuing professional development education, Julia’s role interfaces with the NHS, national professional bodies and the national arena for nursing. Julia’s most recent research has included a Health Education South London funded project as part of Health Education London on Adult Nurse Turnover and Retention: South London, Students' first year of a BSc in Nursing: A Pilot study
Abstract
Abstract : Leadership in nursing education