Tracy Fiddy
Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Course Lead for MSc Adult Nursing
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338501
- School/Directorate
- School of Health, Sciences and Society
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Tracy qualified as a Registered Adult Nurse in 1998 and has gained extensive clinical experience across a range of settings, including intensive care, trauma and orthopaedics, and acute medical admissions. She is also a registered Midwife with a strong interest in public health, and her most recent clinical role was as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor).
Tracy joined the University of Suffolk on 2017 and currently serves as Course Leader for the MSc Adult Nursing (Pre-registration) programme. She teaches across both the BSc and MSc pre-registration nursing courses and is the Module Leader for Fundamentals of Bioscience in year one. Tracy also provides academic leadership for safeguarding teaching within the adult nursing programmes.
Tracy holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her academic interests include interprofessional learning and preparing nurses to deliver high-quality care across diverse healthcare environments.
Tracy's research interests span public health, interprofessional collaboration, and the management of minor illness pathways. She completed her MSc Public Health Nursing dissertation exploring paediatric minor illness presentations to Emergency Departments. In addition, she holds an MSc in Prehospital Emergency Medicine, during which she examined handover communication between prehospital clinicians and Emergency Department teams.
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Royal College of Nursing (RCN)
- Royal College of Paramedics