Gilda Davis

Senior Lecturer Children’s Nursing

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Department of Pre-Registration Nursing

Contact Details

email: gilda.davis@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 543650

Gilda has worked in a variety of clinical settings, specialising in children’s palliative care for many years, before returning to higher education.

Qualifications

Enrolled Nurse (General), Royal Gwent School of Nursing, 1988
Registered Sick Children’s Nurse, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormand Street, 1993
MSc Children’s Services, University of Wales (Cardiff), 2000
Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Wales (Bangor), 2001
Non-Medical Prescriber, Birmingham City University, 2016
Post Graduate Diploma Advancing Practice (Advanced Clinical Practice), University of Worcester, 2019

Teaching Interests

Children
Palliative care
Leadership
Complex care needs in children and young people
Research
Enquiry Based Learning
Unconscious bias
Nursing

Research Interests

Narrative
Ethnophenomenology
Bereavement
Palliative care

Recent Publications

Davis, G. et al (2024) Places of Farewell: A Scoping Review Exploring Factors Influencing the Choice of Place of Death for Children when Death is Expected, Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing.
https://doi.org/10.1080/24694193.2024.2374239

EBN blog Places of Farewell: bereaved parents decision making about their child’s place of death February 11th 2024
https://blogs.bmj.com/ebn/2024/02/11/places-of-farewell-bereaved-parents-decision-making-about-their-childs-place-of-death/

Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine Conference 2023: Poster presentation.

RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2023: Poster presentation.

EBN blog Children’s Palliative Care in a Pandemic October 10^th 2021
https://blogs.bmj.com/ebn/2021/10/10/childrens-palliative-care-in-a-pandemic/

Membership of Professional Bodies

NMC

Enrolled Nurse (General)
Registered Sick Children’s Nurse