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Anita Maestri-Banks

Nursing and Allied Health

Faculty of Health

I am a registered general nurse (adult), nurse lecturer/educator, a counsellor/therapist, and a mother of a young man with Down Syndrome & special educational needs, a co-opt governor of a special educational high school and am the parent representative for learning disability for Liverpool City Council’s Education, Skills, and Employment Scrutiny Committee for the 2023/24 municipal year.

Journal article

Darley D, Blundell P, Cherry L, Wong JO, Wilson AM, Vaughan S, Vandenberghe K, Taylor B, Scott K, Ridgeway T, Parker S, Olson S, Oakley L, Newman A, Murray E, Hughes DG, Bin Hasan N, Harrison J, Hall M, Guido-Bayliss L, Edah R, Eichsteller S, Dougan L, Burke B, Boucher S, Maestri-Banks A, Breaking the Boundaries Collective . 2024. Breaking the Boundaries Collective - A Manifesto for Relationship-based Practice Ethics and Social Welfare, DOI Publisher Url Public Url

Maestri-Banks A. 2019. One size does not fit all: mental health services access for people with intellectual/learning disability requires individualised planning and education/training programmes for health and social care providers Evidence Based Nursing, 23 :107-107 DOI Publisher Url

Maestri-Banks A. 2013. Learning Disability, Education and Empowerment: Learning from Individuals who live with a Learning Disability Health and Social Care Education, 2 :21-24 DOI Publisher Url

Maestri-Banks A. 1998. An overview of constipation: causes and treatment International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 4 :271-275 DOI Publisher Url

Maestri-Banks AM, Gosney M. 1997. Nurses response to terminal care in the geriatric unit International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 3 :345-350 Publisher Url

Mead GE, O'Keeffe ST, Jack CI, Maèstri-Banks AM, Playfer JR, Lye M. 1995. What factors influence patient preferences regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation? J R Coll Physicians Lond, 29 :295-298 Author Url

Chapters

Birchenall (Ed) P, Adams (Ed) N. 2011. The Nursing Companion Birchenall P, Adams N. The Nursing Companion 1 :311-325 Palgrave Macmillan. London 9781403941886

Poster

Maestri-Banks AM. 2007. An exploratory study to review students' communication skills in admitting patients, using a reflective model The International Royal College of Nursing Conference

External committees:

Education, Skills & Employment Scrutiny Committee,, Liverpool City Council, Co-opt parent representative for learning Disability. 2023

The Learning Disability Steering Group, The Royal and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust, member of the group.

External collaboration:

Birmingham City University, Professor Geraldine Lee-Treweek. 2022

Community Groups relating to the support of Adults with Learning Disability -, MOWALL PACTT MENCAP PEOPLE FIRST RBLUHT. 2010

Conference presentation:

Me, Myself and I – developing empathy skills with students. With Colleagues Ceri Jones and Damian Maher, Teaching and Learning Conference,, LJMU, Liverpool, Oral presentation. 2014

It is about breaking the chains of the past. Allowing individuals who lived the experience to education. The Learning Disability Collaborative Group., Teaching and Learning Conference, LJMU, Liverpool, Oral presentation. 2012

Integrated approaches to curriculum design for the student learning disability experience: Everyone’s view counts. The Learning Disability Collaborative Group., Teaching and Learning Conference, LJMU, Liverpool, Poster presentation. 2011

The introduction of facilitated critical thinking groups into the BA (Hons) Nursing course: Facilitator reflections on learning and potential developments. Dr Christine Wall and Sheila Dunbar., Teaching and Learning Conference, LJMU, Oral presentation. 2010

An exploratory study to review students’ communication skills in admitting patients, using a reflective model., The International Royal College of Nursing Conference, The International Royal College of Nursing Conference, Liverpool, Poster presentation. 2007

Other invited event:

Learning from Individuals who live with a Learning Disability., Town Hall, Liverpool, I was invited to present at The Liverpool Nursing 150 year event. 2012

Fellowships:

Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, The Higher Education Academy. 2012

Award:

The Vice Chancellors Excellence Award, which was given in recognition of distinction in teaching in respect of outstanding impact on students' learning experience., LJMU. 2012

Teaching qualification:

Postgraduate Teaching and Learning for Higher Education. 2002

Membership of professional bodies:

Registered General Nurse (adult), Nursing and Midwifery Council. 1988

Registered General Nurse, Nursing and Midwifery Council. 1988

Registered Nurse Recorded Teacher, Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Media Coverage:

Radio - Roger Philips Show on Life Long Learning - March 2002

Other Professional Activity:

Convenor in an open conference for NHS/North West Research and Development. January 2015 - Catalyst Event Report on How can we demonstrate the benefits of involving the public in research?.

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