Executive committee profile

Eileen Richardson, MA Ed, BA (Hons) RGN, SCM, Cert Nursing Studies (Education)

Honorary Vice-President of ETNA

Eileen has worked in Nurse Education for many years both as a teacher and educational manager. Her initial teaching preparation was at Edinburgh University. Eileen is a graduate of both the Open and Sussex Universities, obtaining a master’s degree in Education at the latter. From 1993 to 2007, Eileen was a member of staff at the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University where she held a number of posts. These included Programme Leader for Adult Nursing and Placement Co-ordinator. From October 2000 to 2007 Eileen was employed on a part-time basis as International Project Officer for Nursing. This involved, amongst other things, managing two transatlantic projects one relating to multicultural workforces and the other ‘health inequalities in rural communities’