Ufuoma Jones

Personal profile

Ufuoma Jones is a Registered Adult Nurse with over 29 years of clinical nursing practice experience in various fields of nursing, including 14 years of Cardiac nursing. She qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1993 and as a Registered Midwife in 1995 (both in Nigeria) and worked in various clinical settings before relocating to the UK in 2004.

She completed a BSc (Hons) in long-term care (Cardiac) at the University of Wolverhampton in 2011, an MSc in Cardiovascular Practice at Coventry University in 2016 and earned her doctorate at the University of Wolverhampton.

She has worked in various clinical settings in the UK, including nursing homes and NHS Trusts, in diverse roles. Ufuoma worked for Luton and Dunstable Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in a respiratory care setting and City hospital - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU), where she progressed to the post of a Sister in Cardiology. As a Sister at CCU, she worked as part of the Cardiology team. She cared for patients with varied heart conditions, including patients presenting to the hospital with myocardial infarction and other emergencies. Additionally, she has been a mentor to pre-registration nursing students and a preceptor to newly qualified nurses. She has a passion for education, has been involved in the informal education of pre-registration nursing students on cardiac conditions.

She is a senior nurse- A Heart Failure Specialist Nurse working for an NHS Trust in the UK.

Ufuoma is a Research Assistant at Coventry University Centre for Healthcare Research. She is part of the Paramedic Project available from:

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/current-projects/2022/widening-access-and-improving-retention-and-career-progression-into-the-paramedic-profession-for-black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-groups-within-the-west-midlands/

• Diversity and inclusion
• Clinical Consultation styles between specialist nurses and medical doctors
• Heart Failure

Publication:

Jones, U (2022) Exploring the experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) family members living with BAME health care workers in the UK during COVID-19 pandemic: An interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

Conference Presentation:

Exploring the experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) family members living with BAME health care workers in the UK during COVID-19 pandemic: An interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Oral presentation, 9th International Festival of Public Health 2021, Manchester, UK.