Lunchtime Meeting - 12:45pm - Speaker Vic Graham

Vic (Victoria) Graham joined Wrexham Glyndwr University in Feb 2016 on retirement as a Lieutenant Commander in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service. In her 23 years’ service, she completed her adult nurse training and worked on various wards, specialising in breast cancer care and oncology. Eventually she moved into education and became a nurse lecturer, working at both Portsmouth and Birmingham City Universities. In 2007, she commissioned as a naval officer and trained as a burns and plastic surgery nurse, working in Birmingham with the Military Polytrauma Team, helping to nurse and ‘re-build’ the service personnel returning with profound injuries from Afghanistan. She completed a six-month tour to establish the full-time burns and plastic surgery nurse role (as well as pain nurse) at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, for which she received a Queens Commendation for Valuable Service. More recently, she moved to the Welsh borders and back to working in education and was delighted to join the nurse education team at Wrexham Glyndwr University, with a keen eye to use her experiences to develop innovative teaching programmes. She is currently the programme leader for the MSc professional Practice in Health and also leads the interprofessional module ‘Principles of Wound Care’.