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S.D. Onyango, Bsc (Honours )Nursing Practice ( Public Health).

Nurse Consultant || Mentor || Public Health and Clinical Research Professional || Quality and Patient Safety Advocate || Author.

Nurse consulting is an emerging field with more and more businesses understanding the value that can be brought by a nurse consultant. This is because nurses have an understanding of complex medical concepts and the experience of making those concepts understandable to anyone. It is this trait that makes nurses ideal for assisting businesses in communicating with their audiences and for providing businesses with healthcare -related advice.

As a registered nurse, with over 12 years experience working in leading healthcare institutions in various roles, I have witnessed first hand the damage and sometimes fatal mistakes that can emerge when patient safety and satisfaction is not at the core of health related policy and / or care.

As a Nurse Consultant, I am a nursing expert who uses my clinical background and education to provide medical information, advice and guidance to patients so that they can be at the heart of their healthcare and are able to challenge any behaviour that puts their safety and healthcare rights at risk. I also use my experiences as a patient who has been affected by poor patient safety.

I also use my experience in nursing and clinical research to help mentor, train and educate fellow nurses be they at the start of their career or looking to move into clinical research. I have just published my first book on surviving the work place as a Black Nurse, now available to purchase on Amazon (link available below), as we continue to battle and tackle racism in our work places.

Book on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/7ewhfVp

Publications:

1) Knibb RC, Huissoon AP, Baretto R, et al. “It's not an illness, it's just bad luck”: The impact of

anaphylaxis on quality of life in adults. Clin Exp Allergy. 2019;49:1040–1046.

2) Development and Validation of the Anaphylaxis Quality of Life Scale for Adults Knibb, Rebecca C. et al. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Volume 10, Issue 6, 1527 - 1533.e3

https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(22)00224-0/fulltext

3) The impact of anaphylaxis on the quality of life and mental health of adults https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36336922/

Memberships:

  • Member of Kenya Nursing and Midwives Assossiation UK- KENMAUK

  • Member of Clinical Research Society of Kenya