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Ruth Smith
Deputy subject leader nursing
University of Northampton
Ruth is Deputy Subject Leader and Nursing Associate Programme Lead at the University of Northampton. She is also a part time professional doctorate student completing her undergraduate BA(Hons) and post graduate MSc at Oxford Brookes University. She has had a varied clinical career working across acute and specialist general medicine, surgery and intensive care. Her interests are workbased learning particularly focusing on non-supernumerary learning for nursing associate apprentices and simulation learning.