Qualifications
- RN (94H0109E)
- Current Student MSc pathway Advanced Clinical Practice (Nursing) Southampton University; Dissertation. Completed equivalent of PG Dip Advanced Clinical Practice August 2019
- NMP 2016
- ARTP Spirometry registration; entry 2014
- Asthma and COPD modules Education for Health; 2004/2006
- Dip HE Nursing; Adult (1997)
Brief Outline of Experience
Carla qualified as Registered Nurse (Adult) and within 10 months took her first job as a Primary care nurse. In the last decade, Carla has worked for the Southampton Integrated COPD Team as a primary care respiratory educator and as a respiratory nurse researcher with Wessex CLAHRC. Since returning to General Practice in 2017, Carla completed an MSc. (Advanced Practice, 2021) and currently works as a primary care respiratory nurse, is a co-lead for Southampton Airways Forum, a committee member for NPRANG and respiratory trainer.
Carla advocates for access to professional education and improving standards and provision of primary respiratory healthcare; and that those standards should be adapted to meet the specific needs of children, young people, and your own practice population.
Areas of Expertise
- Asthma; Diagnosis, Management (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) and Monitoring (F2F, digital, telephone), Children and Adults
- COPD; Diagnosis, Management (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) and Monitoring (F2F, digital, telephone)
- The role of the Primary Care HCP and co-existing lung conditions, e.g. Bronchiectasis. Spotting the potential for and primary care assessment of breathing pattern disorders, sleep apnoea and seasonal or perennial rhinitis.
- Spirometry
- Inhaled Therapy: Devices and Medicines
- HCP education on devices, patient assessment of device, consideration on class of drug and where drug molecule may need to be considered. Awareness of “green” agenda in prescribing inhaled therapy, SABA overuse (RightCare)
- Mentorship in Practice (joint clinical working and virtual patient review) in long term respiratory conditions and diagnosis