Dr. Michael Tatterton,Clinical Associate Professor
Information about Dr. Michael Tatterton at the University of Bradford.
- Sch. of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership
(Faculty of Health Studies) - Email:
- m.tatterton@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 238057
Biography
Michael is a clinical associate professor of children and young people's nursing at the University of Bradford. He is a childrenâs 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 Chief Nurse at Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice in Sheffield, and a Specialist Advisor to the Care Quality Commission (CQC). He is an Editor of the Journal of Child Health Care (SAGE Publications) and Evidence-Based Nursing (BMJ Journals). 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.Michael has extensive clinical, teaching, research and leadership experience. Prior to joining the University of Bradford, Michael was a consultant nurse in childrenâs palliative and end of life care in a regional childrenâs hospice. He chaired the Yorkshire and Humber Childrenâs Palliative Care Network Workforce and Education group and sat on the Executive Board, designing and delivering a childrenâs palliative and end of life care training programme to health, social care and education staff across the region. He represents children's hospice care nationally in the Association of Chief Children's Nurses. Michael has worked as a chief nursing officer, 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 Queenâs Nurse title in recognition of his commitment to childrenâs community nursing. Michael is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar, awarded in 2024. 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 childrenâs 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. In 2022, Michael was awarded The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Award for Outstanding Service Award by the Queen's Nursing Institute 'in recognition of an exceptional contribution made to the individual care of patients in the community to the nursing profession through teaching and personal example and to the body of knowledge through dedicated practice and shared experience.â In 2023, Michael was made a Fellow of the Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) âin recognition of an outstanding contribution as a clinical academic to the care of children, young people and their families through your work in community and palliative care nursing and research.â 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 babies, children, young people, and their families across the UK.
Research
Michaelâs research predominantly focuses on the experiences of families of children with life-limiting conditions, and advancing nursing practice in childrenâs 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 childrenâs palliative care;Identifying the prevalence of cannabis-based medicine use in children who use British childrenâs 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 childrenâs hospices take to providing community-based palliative care. His research interests include family centred care, family nursing, advanced level practice, grief, loss and bereavement, interdisciplinary approaches to care, clinical leadership and innovation in practice, workforce development and qualitative health research.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 âWhat 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?â, 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 conditiona national survey, exploring the role of British childrenâs hospices in the provision of perinatal palliative care and advance care planningan exploration of professional experience and perspectives of perinatal advance care planning, using focus groups.
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Dr. Michael Tatterton as follows:
Teaching interests
Pre and post registration nursingNon-medical prescribingAdvanced clinical practicePalliative careFamily Grief, loss and bereavementQualitative research methods
Professional activities
Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Dr. Michael Tatterton is as follows:
Consultancy
- Care Quality Commission - in the year 2015 (specified as 01/06/2015)
Publications
There are 28 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Michael Tatterton. They are listed as:
- book chapter (3)
- conference contribution (1)
- editorial (1)
- invited papers (1)
- peer reviewed journal (22)
Book Chapter
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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Non-medical prescribing | 2014 | Medicines Management Toolkit (2nd Ed) | Medicines Management Toolkit (2nd Ed) | Tatterton, M.J. and Adams, J | 1-898447-30-6 | Together for Short Lives | |||||
Non-medical prescribing and advanced practice in children's hospices | 2021 | Medicines Management Toolkit (3rd Ed) | Medicines Management Toolkit (3rd Ed) | Tatterton, M.J. | Together for Short Lives | ||||||
Do we need nursing models? | 2023 | New notes on nursing models | New notes on nursing models | Michael Tatterton and Kieran Manchester | Elsevier |
Conference Contribution
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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2021 | Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Conference 2021 | Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Conference 2021 | N/A | Mathai, M et al. | Online |
Editorial
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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Meaning making And Generativity In Children and Young people with Life limiting conditions (MAGICYL). | 2019 | Evidence-based nursing | 22 | Watts L;Rodriguez A;Tatterton M;McSherry W;Smith J; | 1468-9618 | 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103075 |
Invited papers
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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Stakeholder Perceptions of Dignity Therapy for Children and Young People with Life-Limiting and Life-Threatening Conditions in the UK | 2020 | 5 | Watts, L., Smith, J., McSherry, W., Tatterton, M.J. and Rodriguez, A. | LIDSEN Publishing Inc. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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A qualitative descriptive analysis of nurses' perceptions of hospice care for deceased children following organ donation in hospice cool rooms. | 2019 | International Journal of Palliative Nursing | 25 | Tatterton MJ;Summers R;Brennan CY; | 1357-6321 | 10.12968/ijpn.2019.25.4.166 | |||||
The Prevalence of Nonprescription Cannabinoid-Based Medicines in British Children's Hospices: Results of a National Survey. | 2019 | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 22 | Tatterton MJ;Walker C; | 1557-7740 | 10.1089/jpm.2018.0522 | |||||
Understanding the bereavement experience of grandparents following the death of a grandchild from a life-limiting condition: A meta-ethnography. | 2019 | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 75 | Tatterton MJ;Walshe C; | 1365-2648 | 10.1111/jan.13927 | |||||
How Grandparents Experience the Death of a Grandchild With a Life-Limiting Condition. | 2019 | Journal of Family Nursing | 25 | Tatterton MJ;Walshe C; | 1552-549X | 10.1177/1074840718816808 | |||||
Independent non-medical prescribing in children's hospices in the UK: a practice snapshot. | 2017 | International Journal of Palliative Nursing | 23 | Tatterton MJ; | 1357-6321 | 10.12968/ijpn.2017.23.8.386 | |||||
Approaches to community-based palliative care provision by children's hospices in the UK. | 2019 | Nursing children and young people | 31 | J Tatterton M; | 2046-2344 | 10.7748/ncyp.2019.e1199 | |||||
Developing a nursing dependency scoring tool for children’s palliative care: the impact on hospice care | 2021 | International Journal of Palliative Nursing | 27 | Tatterton MJ, Martin C, Moore, C, Walker, C | |||||||
Meaning making And Generativity In Children and Young people with Life limiting conditions (MAGICYL) | 2019 | Evidence-based nursing | 22 | 33 - 35 | Watts L.;Rodriguez A.;Tatterton M.;McSherry W.;Smith J. | 1367-6539 | 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103075 | ||||
‘I no longer feel alone’: meeting the needs of bereaved grandparents through a children’s hospice support group | 2020 | International Journal of Palliative Nursing | N/A | Tatterton MJ, Lyon JA | |||||||
Moving and handling and managing physiological deterioration of deceased children in hospice cool rooms: practice guidelines for care after death | 2021 | Nursing children and young people | N/A | Tatterton, M.J., Honour, A., Billington, D., Kirkby, L., Lyon, J.A., Lyon, N. and Gaskin, G | RCNi | ||||||
Sources of emotional challenge for practitioners delivering family centred care after the death of child: an inductive thematic analysis | 2021 | Mortality | N/A | Michael J Tatterton, Alison Honour, Judith Lyon, Lorna Kirkby, Mary Newbegin and Jo Webster | 10.1080/13576275.2021.1929897 | ||||||
The role and experiences of responders attending the sudden or unexpected death of a child: a systematic review and meta-synthesis | 2022 | Illness Crisis and Loss | N/A | Tatterton, MJ; Scholes, S; Henderson, S; Croucher, F and Gibson, C | https://doi.org/10.1177/10541373221075300 | ||||||
Moving and handling children after death: an inductive thematic analysis of the factors that influence decision-making by children’s hospice staff | 2021 | Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing | 24 | Tatterton, MJ., Honour, A., Kirkby, L. and Billington, D | Lippincott Wolters Kluwer | ||||||
‘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 | Palliative Medicine | Tatterton, MJ; Fisher, MJ | Sage Publications | 10.1177/02692163231172244 | ||||||
Child and family experiences of a whole-systems approach to physical activity in a multiethnic UK city: a citizen science evaluation protocol. | 2023 | BMJ Open | 13 | Frazer M;Seims A;Tatterton MJ;Lockyer B;Bingham D;Barber S;Daly-Smith A;Hall J; | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069334 | |||||
Experiences of newly registered nurses transitioning from nursing student to registered nurse: a qualitative systematic review. | 2023 | Evidence-based nursing | Brady J;Tatterton MJ; | 1468-9618 | 10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103784 | ||||||
The role of children’s hospices in perinatal palliative care and advance care planning: the results of a national British survey | 2022 | Journal of Nursing Scholarship | Tatterton, MJ; Fisher, MJ; Storton, H; Walker, C. | Wiley | https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12866 | ||||||
Team based learning and nurse education: a systematic review | 2022 | Evidence-based nursing | N/A | Tatterton, MJ and Fisher, MJ | BMJ | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2022-103595 | |||||
Editorial: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: preserving children’s undergraduate nurse education in the move towards genericism in nursing | 2024 | Journal of Child Health Care | 28 | Tatterton, M.J.; Carey, M.C.; Hyde, R.; Hewitt, C. | Sage Journals | ||||||
The role of children’s hospices in supporting the implementation of perinatal palliative care and advance care planning in the United Kingdom | 2023 | Evidence-based nursing | Michael Tatterton | ||||||||
Nasogastric tube safety in children cared for in the community: a re-examination of the evidence base | 2024 | Nursing children and young people | Tatterton, M.; Mulcahy, J.; Mankelow, J.; Harding, M.; Scrace, J.; Fisher, M.; Bethell, C. | RCNi | https://doi.10.7748/ncyp.2023.e1493 | ||||||
Role of children's hospices in supporting the implementation of perinatal palliative care and advance care planning in the UK. | 2023 | Evidence-based nursing | Tatterton MJ; | 1468-9618 | 10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103889 |