Dr Michael Tatterton
Clinical Associate Professor
Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership (Faculty of Health Studies) |
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m.tatterton@bradford.ac.uk | |
@MJTatterton | |
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Biography
Michael is an associate professor and the professional lead for children and young people's nursing at the University of Bradford. He is a children’s nurse, health visitor, independent prescriber and advanced nurse practitioner, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
In addition to his role at the University, Michael is the Clinical Director of Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice in Sheffield, responsible for the planning and delivery of palliative care services for babies, children and young people across South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire. He is an Editor of the Journal of Child Health Care (SAGE Publications) and a Specialist Advisor to the Care Quality Commission. In September 2021, Michael was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN), representing the World Health Organization European Region.
He has extensive clinical, teaching, research and leadership experience. Prior to joining the University of Bradford, Michael was a consultant nurse in children’s palliative and end of life care in a regional children’s hospice. Within that role he chaired the Yorkshire and Humber Children’s Palliative Care Network Workforce and Education group and sat on the Executive Board, designing and delivering a children’s palliative and end of life care training programme to health, social care and education staff across the region. He represented children's hospice care nationally in the Association of Chief Children's Nurses.
Michael has worked as a director of nursing, consultant nurse, community specialist practitioner and NHS Commissioner. Michael has worked in the hospital, hospice and community setting, caring for babies, children and young people, and their families in critical care and those with complex and palliative care needs. In 2010, Michael was awarded the Queen’s Nurse title in recognition of his commitment to children’s community nursing.
Michael has a Masters in public health and a PhD in palliative care, where he used interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore how grandparents experience the death of a grandchild. His research interests include children’s palliative care, family centred care, grief and loss, advancing nursing practice and nursing leadership. He has published and presented his research widely, working in collaboration with practitioners, organisations and academics in other institutions.
Michael's research has been recognised by numerous awards, including Researcher of the Year (International Journal of Palliative Nursing) and Commitment to Carers (Royal College of Nursing Awards), for his work with bereaved grandparents, and Enhancing Patient Dignity (Nursing Times Awards), for his work on supporting bereaved families of children who donated organs. Most recently he was awarded The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Award for Outstanding Service Award by the Queen's Nursing Institute, in recognition of his practice, leadership and research in community-based palliative care for babies, children and young people.
Michael sits on the Joint Research Board of Together for Short Lives and the Association on Paediatric Palliative Medicine, leading research on palliative care for children, young people, and their families across the UK.
Research
Michael’s research predominantly focuses on the experiences of families of children with life-limiting conditions, and advancing nursing practice in children’s palliative care. Recent examples include:- Exploring how grandparents experience the death of a grandchild following a life-limiting condition;
- Exploring how nurses perceive care after death of children following organ donation;
- Developing a nursing dependency scoring tool for children’s palliative care;
- Identifying the prevalence of cannabis-based medicine use in children who use British children’s hospices;
- Stakeholder Perceptions of Dignity Therapy for Children and Young People with Life-Limiting and Life-Threatening Conditions in the UK;
- Identifying the approaches UK children’s hospices take to providing community-based palliative care.
Current research:
Developing Dignity Therapy Interventions for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in partnership with Drs Alison Rodriguez and Joanna Smith (University of Leeds), Professor Wilfred McSherry (Staffordshire University), Professor Allan Kellehear (University of Bradford), Lucy Watts MBE and Dr Angel Jimenez-Aranda (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust).
A series of projects, designed to answer ‘What are the benefits and barriers to family-centred perinatal advance care planning from the perspective of professionals involved in the care of neonates and infants with life limiting conditions?’, co-produced with Megan Fisher (Assistant Professor, UoB) and practitioners from Martin House Children's Hospice. These include:
- a meta-ethnography, exploring the experience of parents whose baby is diagnosed antenatally with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition
- a national survey, exploring the role of British children’s hospices in the provision of perinatal palliative care and advance care planning
- an exploration of professional experience and perspectives of perinatal advance care planning, using focus groups.
Teaching
Teaching interests
Pre and post registration nursing
Non-medical prescribing
Advanced clinical practice
Palliative care
Family
Grief, loss and bereavement
Qualitative research methods
Professional activities
- Nursing and Midwifery Council, Registrant
- Royal College of Nursing, Advanced Level Nursing Credential
- Association of Chief Children's Nurses, Member
- International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) UK and Ireland Chapter, Member
- Together for Short Lives/Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Board Member
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing , Nurse Leader
- International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN), Trustee
- Yorkshire and Humber Children's Palliative Care Network (Chair: Education and Workforce),
- Martin House Research Centre, University of York (Research Advisory Board Member),
- Together for Short Lives/Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine (Board Member),
- University Research Ethics Committee,
- International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN),
- 01-JAN-10: Queen's Nurse (Queen's Nursing Institute)
- 01-JAN-16: Researcher of the Year (International Journal of Palliative Nursing)
- 01-JAN-17: Nurse of the Year: Commitment to Carers (Royal College of Nursing)
- 01-JAN-20: Enhancing Patient Dignity
- 01-JAN-21: HM The Queen Mother Award for Outstanding Service Award
- Research Ethics Panel
- Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee
- Module Leader: Enhanced Paediatric Nursing Skills
- Module Leader: Managing the nursing care of babies, children and young poeple
- Academic Leadership: Professional Lead for Children and Young People's Nursing
- 01-JUN-15: Care Quality Commission -
Publications
Title | ‘You have a little human being kicking inside you and an unbearable pain of knowing there will be a void at the end’: a meta-ethnography exploring the experience of parents whose baby is diagnosed antenatally with a life limiting or life-threatening condition (2023) |
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Authors | Tatterton, MJ; Fisher, MJ |
Journal | Palliative Medicine |
Publisher | Sage Publications |
DOI | 10.1177/02692163231172244 |
Title | Child and family experiences of a whole-systems approach to physical activity in a multiethnic UK city: a citizen science evaluation protocol. (2023) |
Authors | Frazer M;Seims A;Tatterton MJ;Lockyer B;Bingham D;Barber S;Daly-Smith A;Hall J; |
Journal | BMJ Open |
DOI | 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069334 |
Title | Team-based learning and nurse education: a systematic review. (2022) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ;Fisher MJ; |
Journal | Evidence-based nursing |
DOI | 10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103595 |
Title | The role of children’s hospices in perinatal palliative care and advance care planning: the results of a national British survey (2022) |
Authors | Tatterton, MJ; Fisher, MJ; Storton, H; Walker, C. |
Journal | Journal of Nursing Scholarship |
Publisher | Wiley |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12866 |
Title | Team based learning and nurse education: a systematic review (2022) |
Authors | Tatterton, MJ and Fisher, MJ |
Journal | Evidence-based nursing |
Publisher | BMJ |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103595 |
Title | The role and experiences of responders attending the sudden or unexpected death of a child: a systematic review and meta-synthesis (2022) |
Authors | Tatterton, MJ; Scholes, S; Henderson, S; Croucher, F and Gibson, C |
Journal | Illness Crisis and Loss |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373221075300 |
Title | Moving and handling children after death: an inductive thematic analysis of the factors that influence decision-making by children’s hospice staff (2021) |
Authors | Tatterton, MJ., Honour, A., Kirkby, L. and Billington, D |
Journal | Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing |
Publisher | Lippincott Wolters Kluwer |
Title | Developing a nursing dependency scoring tool for children’s palliative care: the impact on hospice care (2021) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ, Martin C, Moore, C, Walker, C |
Journal | International Journal of Palliative Nursing |
Title | Moving and handling and managing physiological deterioration of deceased children in hospice cool rooms: practice guidelines for care after death (2021) |
Authors | Tatterton, M.J., Honour, A., Billington, D., Kirkby, L., Lyon, J.A., Lyon, N. and Gaskin, G |
Journal | Nursing children and young people |
Publisher | RCNi |
Title | Sources of emotional challenge for practitioners delivering family centred care after the death of child: an inductive thematic analysis (2021) |
Authors | Michael J Tatterton, Alison Honour, Judith Lyon, Lorna Kirkby, Mary Newbegin and Jo Webster |
Journal | Mortality |
DOI | 10.1080/13576275.2021.1929897 |
Title | ‘I no longer feel alone’: meeting the needs of bereaved grandparents through a children’s hospice support group (2020) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ, Lyon JA |
Journal | International Journal of Palliative Nursing |
Title | How Grandparents Experience the Death of a Grandchild With a Life-Limiting Condition. (2019) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ;Walshe C; |
Journal | Journal of Family Nursing |
DOI | 10.1177/1074840718816808 |
Title | Approaches to community-based palliative care provision by children's hospices in the UK. (2019) |
Authors | J Tatterton M; |
Journal | Nursing children and young people |
DOI | 10.7748/ncyp.2019.e1199 |
Title | The Prevalence of Nonprescription Cannabinoid-Based Medicines in British Children's Hospices: Results of a National Survey. (2019) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ;Walker C; |
Journal | Journal of Palliative Medicine |
DOI | 10.1089/jpm.2018.0522 |
Title | Meaning making And Generativity In Children and Young people with Life limiting conditions (MAGICYL) (2019) |
Authors | Watts L.;Rodriguez A.;Tatterton M.;McSherry W.;Smith J. |
Journal | Evidence-based nursing |
DOI | 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103075 |
Title | A qualitative descriptive analysis of nurses' perceptions of hospice care for deceased children following organ donation in hospice cool rooms. (2019) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ;Summers R;Brennan CY; |
Journal | International Journal of Palliative Nursing |
DOI | 10.12968/ijpn.2019.25.4.166 |
Title | Understanding the bereavement experience of grandparents following the death of a grandchild from a life-limiting condition: A meta-ethnography. (2019) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ;Walshe C; |
Journal | Journal of Advanced Nursing |
DOI | 10.1111/jan.13927 |
Title | Independent non-medical prescribing in children's hospices in the UK: a practice snapshot. (2017) |
Authors | Tatterton MJ; |
Journal | International Journal of Palliative Nursing |
DOI | 10.12968/ijpn.2017.23.8.386 |
Title | Non-medical prescribing and advanced practice in children's hospices (2021) |
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Authors | Tatterton, M.J. |
Journal | Medicines Management Toolkit (3rd Ed) |
Publisher | Together for Short Lives |
Title | Non-medical prescribing (2014) |
Authors | Tatterton, M.J. and Adams, J |
Journal | Medicines Management Toolkit (2nd Ed) |
Publisher | Together for Short Lives |
Publication Name | Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Conference 2021 (2021) |
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Authors | Mathai, M et al. |
Other type | Invited papers |
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Title | Stakeholder Perceptions of Dignity Therapy for Children and Young People with Life-Limiting and Life-Threatening Conditions in the UK (2020) |
Authors | Watts, L., Smith, J., McSherry, W., Tatterton, M.J. and Rodriguez, A. |
Publisher | LIDSEN Publishing Inc. |
Other type | Editorial |
Title | Meaning making And Generativity In Children and Young people with Life limiting conditions (MAGICYL). (2019) |
Authors | Watts L;Rodriguez A;Tatterton M;McSherry W;Smith J; |
Journal | Evidence-based nursing |
DOI | 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103075 |