Autor: Vanessa Martin

Vanessa was a pediatric and general trained nurse with 40 years» experience of working in the British National Health Service. Most of her work was in the front-line services managing wards in hospitals, but latterly she managed a children»s Plastic Surgery Ward before she became a Nurse Consultant and the Clinical Director of a Cleft Lip and Palate Service which covered the East Midlands Region. She won the Royal College of Nursing/Nursing Standard «Nurse of the Year 2000» award for her work with families of children with cleft lip and palate. She was awarded a Fellowship by the Royal College of Nursing for her work with the Westminster Government Steering Committee setting standards and monitoring the National re-organisation of Cleft Services and for her role in developing a specialist course for nurses working in the field.