Membership of Professional Bodies

• National Council for Palliative Care Ethics Committee
• RCN
• West Midlands Palliative Care Teachers Forum
• Chair of Three Counties Cancer Network Palliative Care and Oncology Education Group

Research Interests

• Ethical issues towards the end of life
• Palliative Care
• End-of-life issues
• Clinical competencies within academic programmes

Publications

Conference papers:-

‘Nursing Elders in Emergency Departments’  paper presented  at 1993 Annual Conference of the Royal College of Nursing Accident and Emergency Nursing Association.

‘Ethics in Emergency Nursing’ paper presented at 1996 Annual Conference, RCN A&E Association.

‘Interview skills for A&E Nurses’ paper presented at 1996 Annual Conference, RCN A&E Association.

‘Ethical Decision making in Palliative Care’ Poster Presentation at Nursing Times Death- A  living  issue conference. December 1997.

‘The Marie Curie B.Sc(Hons) Programme’ Poster presentation at Clatterbridge Cancer care ‘98 conference. January 1998.

‘Ethical Issues in Palliative Care’ workshop presented at South Warwickshire & Coventry NHS Trust annual study day / conference for community based nurses. September 1998

‘Ethical issues in Family Centred Care’ paper presented to UCE Nursing Students conference. July 2000.

‘The limits of autonomy at the end of life’ paper presented to the 2nd Worcestershire Palliative Care Conference, September 2001.

‘Ethical issues at the end of life’ paper presented to RCN West Midland Palliative Care Forum annual conference November 2001.

‘Multi-professional Palliative Care Needs Assessment — an analysis’ paper presented at the launch of the Worcestershire Palliative Care Education Strategy, April 2002

‘Handling Difficult Conversations with Palliative Care Patients’ presentation  to Nursing 2004 —New Roles for Nurses, Improving current practice conference, Worcestershire Royal Hospital NHS Trust, September 2004.

Journals:-

Stammers P & Chippendale S, (1995), Children’s Nurses in A&E, Paediatric Nursing, 7(5):8-10

Chippendale S. (1997), Information Technology in Emergency Nursing. Nursing Standard On-line 11(41)

Chippendale S (1997) Emergency IT Nursing Standard 11(43):28

Chippendale S (2001) The importance of funding palliative care education: a look to the future. International Journal of Palliative Nursing 7(6):298-300

Chippendale S (2001) Funding Palliative Care Education: A token gesture. Palliative Matters 22:4-5

Book Review:-

Chippendale S (1997) Review of Kohner (1996) ‘The moral maze of practice: A stimulus for reflection and discussion.’ Journal of Medical Ethics 23(4):261-262

Books — Chapters;-

[In press] Chippendale S (2006) ‘Ethical issues in Palliative Care’ in Kinghorn S & Gaines R (eds) (2006) Palliative Nursing: bringing comfort and hope.  (2nd edt) Balliere Tindall. Edinburgh

Chippendale S (2001) ‘Ethical issues in Palliative Care’ in Kinghorn S & Gamlin R (eds) (2001) Palliative Nursing: bringing comfort and hope. Balliere Tindall. Edinburgh

Chippendale S (2001) ‘Ethical issues surrounding death and dying’ in Nyatanga B.(ed) (2001) Why is it so difficult to die? Quay Books, Dinton