Dr. Carol Bond

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r. Bond is a Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics at Bournemouth University (UK) where she based in the School of Health and Social Care and is a member of the Centre for Wellbeing and Quality of Life. Before moving to Bournemouth she was a nurse, and then the Chief Officer of a Community Health Council, where her role included managing a patient information service.

She gained her nursing qualification at the Dorset School of Nursing, later gaining a BA(Hons) in Health and Community Studies at Bournemouth University, followed by an MSc in Management and a Doctor of Education both from the University of Bristol. She is also a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, where she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Health Informatics Forum Nursing Specialist Group, and their representative on the European Federation for Medical Informatics Nursing Group. Dr Bond also has level 3 registration with UKCHIP, the UK’s Council for Health Informatics Professionals.

Whilst her professional and academic interests are in the broad field of health informatics Dr Bond has focused on consumer and nursing information, particularly patient information and the Internet, and the education needs of nurses to support both their own and their patients information needs in an increasingly complex information world. Copies of her publications are available through the University repository, BURO.

In 2006 she was awarded a Florence Nightingale Travel Scholarship to visit New Zealand and explore nursing informatics and education there.

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