Healthcare Heroes

Join our academics for a special Wrexham Talks Research public lecture following our Healthcare Heroes event with the theme of ‘Tomorrow’s World’. Hear about what is next for healthcare education as well as the cutting-edge research our academics are leading on to transform healthcare. Find out about our ongoing projects in collaboration with local health boards and the Maelor Academic Unit of Medical and Surgical Sciences. Discover how our research and investments in transformative technology equips our graduates to work in practice in a wide range of healthcare careers serving the local community.

Nathan Roberts & Dr Mobayode Akinsolu

Dr Chelsea Batty

The use of heart rate monitors to monitor exercise intensity in cardiac rehab is considered usual practice. However, this can come at an expense for cardiac rehab teams and are often not feasible to use. Polar (manufacturer of sports training computers) has now developed arm band heart rate monitors that can be easily fitted by patients and exercise intensity monitored via the Polar teams app by the cardiac rehab team. This will allow cardiac rehab teams to objectively assess if patients are exercising within the recommended heart rate training zones.

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Dr Liz Cade

A career in healthcare brings many rewards across a wide range of roles and diverse professions. A highly skilled workforce delivers the services required to support the health of individuals and communities through innovative and quality-driven practice. To sustain the demands placed on practitioners, health education providers must nurture skill-based competence, professional identity, an entrepreneurial mindset, and resilience in students as they progress through their training. Curricula design, opportunities and understanding student attributes and individual difference can facilitate the development of resilience and an ability to thrive, enabling graduates to transition successfully into their chosen career.

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Sara Oxbury-Ellis

Observational and debriefing skills are essential areas of professional and educational development for all healthcare students. Although there appeared to be generic tools available, they presented as separate tools with no obvious connection between the two areas. A bespoke dual observational-debriefing tool was created and evaluated, with the intention to promote increased student-led learning and assessment through its use. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of a dual tool to assist students to develop observational and debriefing skills, which benefited student-led learning, assessment, and clinical practice. This tool is now used across several allied health and nursing programmes.

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Professor Stephen Fôn Hughes

MAUMSS is a novel initiative by BCUHB, designed to encourage staff development, lifelong learning, and research within the Health Board. It boasts state-of-the-art laboratories, which encourage academics and healthcare professionals to maximise research impact and provide better outcomes for patients and the public. Research includes developing novel urological biomarkers to aid in the prediction of patients with post-operative complications and cancer recurrence; molecular diagnostic techniques for the rapid diagnosis of bacterial meningitis in newborn babies; hearing loss in elderly patients with dementia. MAUMSS has established a strong collaborative partnership with Wrexham University, facilitating the education and training of the next generation of healthcare professionals.

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Food and drinks reception from 4.30pm

Dr Chelsea Batty, Dr Liz Cade, Sara Oxbury-Ellis, and Professor Stephen Fôn Hughes, Nathan Roberts, Dr Mobayode Akinsolu

Ymunwch â'n hacademyddion am ddarlith gyhoeddus arbennig sy’n rhan o Sgyrsiau Ymchwil Wrecsam yn dilyn ein digwyddiad Arwyr Gofal Iechyd ar thema 'Byd y Dyfodol'. Cewch glywed am yr hyn sydd i ddod ar gyfer addysg gofal iechyd yn ogystal â'r ymchwil arloesol y mae ein hacademyddion yn ei harwain i drawsnewid gofal iechyd. Cewch ragor o wybodaeth am ein prosiectau parhaus ar y cyd â byrddau iechyd lleol ac Uned Academaidd Gwyddorau Meddygol a Llawfeddygol Maelor. Dysgwch sut mae ein hymchwil a’n buddsoddiadau mewn technoleg drawsnewidiol yn arfogi ein graddedigion i weithio’n ymarferol mewn ystod eang o yrfaoedd gofal iechyd sy’n gwasanaethu’r gymuned leol.

Nathan Roberts & Dr Mobayode Akinsolu

Dr Chelsea Batty

Ystyrir ei fod yn rhywbeth arferol i ddefnyddio monitorau curiad calon er mwyn monitro dwyster ymarfer corff mewn sesiynau adsefydlu cardiaidd. Fodd bynnag, gall hyn ddod ar draul timau adsefydlu cardiaidd ac, yn aml, nid ydynt yn ymarferol i'w defnyddio. Mae Polar (sy'n gweithgynhyrchu cyfrifiaduron hyfforddiant chwaraeon) bellach wedi datblygu monitorau curiad calon ar ffurf band braich y gellir eu gosod yn rhwydd gan y cleifion. Mae modd i'r tîm adsefydlu cardiaidd fonitro dwyster yr ymarfer corff drwy'r ap Polar Team. Bydd hyn yn galluogi'r timau adsefydlu cardiaidd i asesu a yw'r cleifion yn ymarfer o fewn y parthau hyfforddi curiad calon argymelledig.

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Dr Liz Cade

Mae dilyn gyrfa gofal iechyd yn werth chweil ar draws ystod eang o rolau ac amrywiol broffesiynau. Mae gweithlu hynod fedrus yn darparu'r gwasanaethau sydd eu hangen i gefnogi iechyd unigolion a chymunedau drwy arfer arloesol a ysgogir gan ansawdd. Er mwyn cynnal y gofynion a roddir ar ymarferwyr, mae'n ofynnol bod darparwyr addysg iechyd yn meithrin cymhwysedd sy'n seiliedig ar sgiliau, hunaniaeth broffesiynol, meddylfryd entrepreneuraidd, a gwytnwch mewn myfyrwyr wrth iddynt ddatblygu drwy eu hyfforddiant. Gall dyluniad cwricwla, cyfleoedd a deall priodoleddau ac amrywiaeth unigol myfyrwyr hwyluso datblygiad gwytnwch a'r gallu i ffynnu, gan alluogi graddedigion i bontio'n llwyddiannus i'w gyrfa o ddewis.

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Sara Oxbury-Ellis

Mae sgiliau arsylwi ac adrodd yn ôl yn feysydd hanfodol o ddatblygiad proffesiynol ac addysgol i bob myfyriwr gofal iechyd. Er ei bod yn ymddangos bod adnoddau generig ar gael, roeddent yn cael eu cyflwyno fel adnoddau ar wahân heb unrhyw gysylltiad amlwg rhwng y ddau faes. Cafodd adnodd arsylwi ac adrodd yn ôl deuol a phwrpasol ei greu a’i werthuso, gyda’r bwriad o hyrwyddo mwy o ddysgu ac asesu dan arweiniad myfyrwyr drwy ei ddefnyddio. Dangosodd y canlyniadau effeithiolrwydd adnodd deuol i gynorthwyo myfyrwyr i ddatblygu sgiliau arsylwi ac adrodd yn ôl, a oedd o fudd i ddysgu dan arweiniad myfyrwyr, asesu ac ymarfer clinigol. Mae’r adnodd hwn bellach yn cael ei ddefnyddio ar draws nifer o raglenni perthynol i iechyd a nyrsio.

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Yr Athro Stephen Fôn Hughes

Mae MAUMSS yn fenter newydd gan BIPBC, wedi'i datblygu i annog datblygiad staff, dysg gydol oes, ac ymchwil o fewn y Bwrdd Iechyd. Mae'n cynnwys labordai o'r radd flaenaf sy'n annog academyddion a gweithwyr gofal iechyd proffesiynol i wneud y mwyaf o ddylanwad gwaith ymchwil a darparu gwell canlyniadau i gleifion a'r cyhoedd. Mae'r gwaith ymchwil yn cynnwys datblygu biofarcwyr wrolegol newydd i gynorthwyo gyda'r gwaith o ddarogan cyflwr cleifion gyda chymhlethdodau ôl-driniaethol a chanser sy'n dychwelyd; technegau diagnostig moleciwlaidd ar gyfer diagnosis cyflym o lid yr ymennydd bacterol mewn babanod newydd-anedig; colled clyw mewn cleifion â dementia. Mae MAUMSS wedi sefydlu partneriaeth gydweithredol gadarn â Phrifysgol Wrecsam, gan hwyluso'r addysg a'r hyfforddiant ar gyfer y genhedlaeth nesaf o weithwyr gofal iechyd proffesiynol.

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Derbyniad bwyd a diod: 4.30yp

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