Jennifer Tocher
Senior Lecturer, Nursing Studies
Contact details
- Tel: + 44 (0) 131 651 1991
- Email: jennifer.tocher@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 2M1
The Medical School
Doorway 6
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Graduated from Nursing studies at the University of Edinburgh with a BSC(Hons) Nursing in 1992 (first honours cohort). Completed a PhD in Acute Pain Management in 2004 PhD Thesis title: Post Operative Pain in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Satisfaction with and Expectations of Pain Management. |
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
My PhD supervision profile is strong with five successful completions, two submitted and awaiting viva and six current students. Two of these students have had scholarships to complete their studies. The first is a CARC studentship looking at the use of patient diaries in intensive care and the second is a Principal’s Teaching Award looking at ‘Releasing Time to Care’. All of the PhD projects that I am supervising have a direct link into my own areas of research expertise and are strengthening this profile.
Research summary
• Information on current (and past) research projects and grants. Co-I Innovation Fund
• PI- PTAS funded study on the impact of multidisciplinary SIM deteriorating patient teaching on a group of senior Nursing and Medical students.
• PI-CSO funded study on Drug Misuse and Pain Behaviours.
• An Exploratory Study of Patients Suffering From Severe and Enduring Pain in Surgical Ward. Development Trust Research Fund
• PI- Medicines Management Service Evaluation. Joint project with NHS Lothian, QMU and Edinburgh Napier University.
• Small scale study into problem based learning in the nursing programme.
• I am involved in the Clinical Academic Research Careers (CARC) scheme which enables research within the critical care and transplant areas of Lothian NHS. This given me an honorary consultant role in my clinical home enabling the fostering of grass roots research. This is to lead into several larger programmes of research in these key areas. I mentor a postdoctoral researcher as part of the CARC initiative.
• Co-I Measuring the impact of wireless respiratory monitoring in acutely ill patients – a pilot study Challenge Investment Fund
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Emergency department nurses’ role transition towards emergency nurse practitioner: A realist-informed review
(9 pages)
In:
International Emergency Nursing, vol. 60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2021.101081
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (Published) -
Edgework emotion management: A constructivist grounded theory of organ donation nurses’ experiences and practices
In:
Journal of Clinical Nursing, pp. 1-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16179
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Family INvolvement in inTensive care: A qualitative exploration of critically ill patients, their families and critical care nurses (INpuT study)
(14 pages)
In:
Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 29, pp. 1115-1128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15175
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Delivering direct patient care in the haemodialysis unit: A focused ethnographic study of care delivery
In:
Journal of Research in Nursing, vol. 24, pp. 712-725
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987119883406
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The role of specialist nurses for organ donation: A solution for maximising organ donation rates?
In:
Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 28, pp. 2020-2027
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14741
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Understanding nurses' decision-making when managing weaning from mechanical ventilation: A study of novice and experienced critical care nurses in Scotland and Greece
(10 pages)
In:
Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 3-4, pp. 434–444
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13070
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A multi-disciplinary approach to medication safety and the implications for nursing education and prac-tice
(5 pages)
In:
Nurse Education Today, vol. 12, pp. 185-190
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A multi-disciplinary approach to medication safety and the implication for nursing education and practice
(6 pages)
In:
Nurse Education Today, vol. 34, pp. 185-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.10.008
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Difficult to Wean Patients: Cultural Factors and their Impact on Weaning Decision-Making
In:
Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12104
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Expectations and Experiences of Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair patients: A Mixed Methods Study.
In:
Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 23, pp. 421–428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12268
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)