Grace Lindsay holds a joint post between the Nursing, Midwifery and Community Health School at Glasgow Caledonian University and NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Acute Division as a Reader in Clinical Nursing Research. Her career in nursing has focussed on coronary heart disease prevention involving clinical, educational and research perspectives. She qualified as a registered nurse in Glasgow, subsequently worked in Canada and has worked in a research/clinical context for over 15 years.
Areas of research interests are focused in two main areas namely, Evaluation research on new approaches to healthcare practice and Patients’ perspectives of their health needs and health outcomes. This includes evaluation of the effectiveness of the emergency nurse practitioner role, a new community-based model of healthcare for individuals with Type II diabetes, the improvement of care delivery across Primary and Secondary care for patients awaiting coronary surgery, exploration of patients’ perspectives of medication compliance with statin therapy, evaluation of the impact of cardiac rehabilitation on patient outcomes, older people’s cardiac rehabilitation needs and applies both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
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