Sr Mandy Henson
Mandy Henson is a Respiratory Nurse Specialist at the Royal Hallamshire
Hospital, Sheffield and a Research Nurse at the Centre for Workplace
Health, which is a collaboration of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Foundation Trust, the University of Sheffield and the Health and Safety
Laboratory (HSL), an agency of the
Health & Safety Executive
Mandy trained in Stoke-on-Trent and was a ward sister on an acute
respiratory admissions ward. Mandy has worked as a specialist Nurse in
Respiratory Medicine for the last 11 years both in Birmingham and
Sheffield. In Birmingham Mandy worked in a research institute looking at
Alpha1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, Bronchiectasis and COPD. Since
being in Sheffield her main interests are Asthma, Interstitial Lung
Disease and Occupational Lung disease. She has presented her work at
national and international conferences.
She works at HSL in Buxton 2 days a week and is involved in research
studies investigating the role of the workplace on health. Mandy works
three days a week at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital where she runs three
nurse led clinics a week. Asthma referrals from primary care are seen
and she has a special interest in difficult asthma, interstitial lung
disease and bronchiectasis. All ward patients with asthma are reviewed
throughout their admission and seen in the nurse led clinic within two
weeks of discharge.
Mandy is an Associate Lecturer at Lancaster University, and is a course
module facilitator and trainer for
Respiratory Education UK.
She currently organises education for all grades of nursing, medical and
other health care professionals in both primary and secondary care.
She has a BSc Hons in Nursing Studies and
an MSc in Health Sciences.
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