Biography

Carin is a Lecturer in Health Services Research in the Centre for Research in Nursing and Midwifery Education. Her research interests are healthcare organisation and culture, including training, student retention and professional preparation. She has a particular interest in patient safety and issues of governance and accountability across healthcare organisations. This includes questions around how healthcare performance, quality and safety is regulated and monitored at all levels of the healthcare care system.

Research Interests

Currently working on the AaRK Project (Academic award and Recontextualising/Re-using Knowledge), which is exploring how newly qualified nurses use the knowledge learnt in university to allow them to organise, delegate and supervise care on the wards when working with and supervising healthcare assistants.

Publications

Ramsay, A, Magnusson, C, & Fulop, N (2010) The relationship between external and local governance systems: the case of health care associated infections and medication errors in one NHS Trust. Quality and Safety in Healthcare (available on-line).

O’Driscoll M, Smith P, Magnusson C (2009) Evaluation of a part-time adult diploma nursing programme - 'tailor-made' provision’?. Nurse Education Today 29, 208–216

Finnerty G, Magnusson C & Pope, R (2007) Women's views of student midwives' involvement in maternity care. Evidence Based Midwifery Vol 5 (4) pp. 137-142

Magnusson C, O’Driscoll M & Smith P (2007) New Roles to Support Practice Learning – Can they Facilitate Expansion of Placement Capacity. Nurse Education Today 27 (6) 643 - 650

Finnerty G, Graham L, Magnusson C, Pope R (2006) Empowering midwife mentors with adequate training and support. British Journal of Midwifery, 14 (4), 187-190

Magnusson C, Finnerty G, Pope R (2005) Methodological Triangulation in Midwifery Educational Research. Nurse Researcher, vol. 12 (4), pp. 30-39

Finnerty G, Pope R, Graham L, Magnusson C (2005) Do we value our midwife mentors? MIDIRS, 15 (2), pp. 158-162

Project reports/other publications

Pearson P, Howe A, Smith P, Steven A, Magnusson C, et al (2009) Patient safety in health care professional educational curricula: examining the learning experience, Report to the Patient Safety Research Portfolio/Department of Health. http://www.haps.bham.ac.uk/publichealth/psrp/documents/PS030_PSRP_Report_FINAL_0609.pdf

Fulop N, Chamberlain J, Baeza, Humphrey C, Magnusson C, Rothstein H (2008) Governing for Safety. King’s Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre. Organisational Governance Programme. Working paper 1.

Horton K, Magnusson C (2008) Reducing attrition: a review of exit interview processes. Fund for Widening Participation Initiatives. University of Surrey

Magnusson C, Smith P, Volante M (2006) Widening Participation: Supporting Student Nurses from Diverse Backgrounds. Fund for Widening Participation Initiatives. University of Surrey.

Knibb W, Smith P, Magnusson C, Bryan K (2006) The Contribution of Healthcare Assistants to Nursing. Report for the RCN (Royal College of Nursing).

Smith P, O’Driscoll M, Magnusson C, Axelrod L (2003) Higher Education Institutions Mapping Clinical Placements. University of Surrey

Pope R, Finnerty G, Graham L, Magnusson C (2003) An investigation of the preparation and assessment for midwifery practice within a range of settings. To the funder: Hospital Savings Association.  University of Surrey.
ISBN: 1844690016

Graham L, Magnusson C, O’Driscoll M, Pope R, Robinson R (2003) Evaluation of Pre-Registration Nursing and Midwifery Curricula (1999)

Teaching

Occasional research methods, research design, qualitative methods and analysis.

Departmental Duties

Research Fellow.  All aspects of research projects:
Grant proposal writing
Literature reviews
Recruitment and negotiating site access
Data collection and analysis
Report writing
Writing for peer review journals
Dissemination of research findings, presentation at conferences and funding bodies

Selected conference presentations

Magnusson, C ‘Organisational Governance: Accountability for Health Care Associated Infections’ Poster, Patient Safety Congress, Birmingham, May 2010.

Magnusson, C ‘Organisational Governance: Accountability for Health Care Associated Infections’, National Patient Safety Agency,  London, Dec 2009.

Magnusson C. ‘Governing for Patient Safety’. Workshop: Critical Perspectives on Governance. 15-17 April 2009. University of Bath. Full paper available at: http://www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/documents/GovernanceWorkshop09/group1-magnusson.pdf

Magnusson C. ‘Organisational Governance and Patient Safety: Case of Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI)’.   7th Annual Meeting of the Quality Improvement Research Network, 23 March 2009. Mannheim, Germany.

Magnusson, C & Horton, K. Student Retention in Higher Education: role and process of student exit interviews. Athens Institute for Education and Research, 26-29 May 2008, Athens.

Magnusson C, Volante M & Smith P 'Supporting Student Nurses from Diverse Backgrounds'. RCN Joint Education Forums 1st International ‘Beyond the borders’ Conference, 5-7 July 2007 Brighton.

Smith P, Knibb W, Magnusson C & Bryan K  ‘Health care assistant work: is it nursing?’ Part of Symposium: What is nursing in the new millennium?  2007 RCN International Research Conference, 1-4 May 2007

Smith P, Magnusson C: 'Emotions at Work: The Case of the British National Health Service (NHS). Royal College of Nursing Annual International Nursing Research Conference, 8-11 March 2005, Belfast.

Magnusson C, Finnerty G, Pope R: 'Methodological Triangulation in Midwifery Educational Research'. Hawaii Conference on Education, 3-6 January 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Magnusson C, Crockford K:  ‘Mapping Clinical Placements: Putting meaning into data’. Developments in Nurse Education Conference, 10 June 2004, University of Salford.