Jeffrey Mercer
Senior Lecturer Practitioner
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care
- School:
- School of Midwifery and Community Health
- Location:
- Cambridge
Jeff is a Senior Lecturer Practitioner with an interest in Emergency and Advanced Practice.
- Background
Jeff is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner working in Emergency Medicine at a local DGH. He comes from an emergency nursing background with 22 years’ experience as an ENP and ACP. He has a keen interest in cardiology, frailty medicine and sports injuries. He is also a non-medical prescriber with an interest in polypharmacy complications.
- Research interests
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- Management of frailty fractures
- Emergency department processes and crowd reduction
- Sepsis
Jeff’s Masters Dissertation centered on creating a quality improvement project in Pain Management of Neck and Femur Fractures. He created a nurse led Fascia Iliaca Block service within the Emergency department to improve the patient journey and improve recovery. This is now being rolled out to Ambulance Services within the UK.
- Areas of research supervision
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- Currently supervising 1 student who is performing a systematic review of testosterone involvement in Covid-19 outcomes.
- Teaching
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- Non-Medical Prescribing (Level 6 and 7)
- Advanced Practice in Context
- Qualifications
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- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, Warwick Medical School
- BSc (Hons) Nursing, Anglia Polytechnic University
- General Instructor Certificate, Resuscitation Council
- Registered Nurse
- Non-Medical Prescriber (Level 7) Anglia Ruskin University
- Memberships, editorial boards
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- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Royal College of Emergency Medicine (Associate)
- Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
- Recent presentations and conferences
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Poster presentation 2018 RCEM London conference (Systematic review of Analgesia in Neck of Femur Fractures)