Dr Fania Pagnamenta

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

I am a Clinical Academic Nurse Consultant for Tissue Viability in a trailblazing post that offers the best of both worlds: I deliver expert hands-on care and undertake research that has rapid clinical impact.

Clinically, I assess, plan, deliver and review care for patients with wounds of differing aetiologies as they are first admitted to The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH). I also co-lead a regional multi-professional Healing Clinic for Complex Wounds. I am the Professional Lead for wound care in NuTH and co-chair for Tissue Viability within the Shelford Group, which is a collaboration between ten of the largest teaching and research NHS hospital trusts in England.

Academically, I work at Northumbria University as a researcher and my interests pertain to leg ulceration, clinical pathways and ways to prevent simple wounds from becoming chronic ulceration.

I have edited a training booklet aimed at generalist nurses, ‘A Short Course in Wound Healing’ which is now used as a basis for wound care training within (the Shelford Group).

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I have a keen interest in pragmatic dressing evaluation methodology that adds to the body of wound care knowledge. Collaboration with service users is central to my approach to for my wound care and research.

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
The (dis)organization of leg ulcer care: A realist synthesis, Pagnamenta, F., Lhussier, M., Rapley, T. 1 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Advanced Nursing
Using a prognostic medical device for early identification of pressure ulcers: protocol for study design, Keltie, K., Parker, R., Dervin, H., Pagnamenta, F., Milne, J., Belilios, E., Latimer, L., Wason, J., Ogundimu, E., McParlin, C., Sims, A. 20 Jun 2024, In: British Journal of Nursing
A review of leg ulcerations coverage in the United Kingdom print media: A growing problem for the vulnerable adult, Pagnamenta, F., Lhussier, M., Rapley, T. 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Vascular Nursing
Is bias biased?, Ousey, K., Totty, J., Pagnamenta, F., Moore, Z., Williams, K. 18 Mar 2022, In: Wounds UK
‘Multi-use’ versus ‘Single patient’: Lister scissors use in leg ulceration care, Pagnamenta, F., Sykes, A. 18 Mar 2022
Dressings and topical agents for arterial leg ulcers, Broderick, C., Pagnamenta, F., Forster, R. 20 Jan 2020, In: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
A trust-wide skin guideline to reduce incidence of moisture lesions, Rees, J., Pagnamenta, F. 9 Aug 2018, In: British Journal of Nursing
Viewing dressing evaluation through a pragmatic lens: The application of Dewey's experimentalism in the development of evidence for dressing selection, Pagnamenta, F., Lhussier, M. 1 Oct 2018, In: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Evidence generation for wound care dressing selection: reviewing the issues., Pagnamenta, F. 2 Sep 2017, In: Journal of wound care
The provision of therapy mattresses for pressure ulcer prevention., Pagnamenta, F. 23 Mar 2017, In: British Journal of Nursing

Qualifications

Nursing DNurs October 01 2016
Medicine September 01 2009
Nursing Studies MA September 01 2004
Nursing Science BSc (Hons) September 01 2000
Registered General Nursing RGN

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