Award winning heart failure advanced clinical practitioner Stephanie “Steph” Kirkland joins me to share her research journey. She tends to “fall” into things from nursing to research in her own words she accidently ended up a nurse who has award winning research. Listen for great tips and inspiration as to how you as a clinical practitioner can strengthen your research pillar.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Take your clinical data one step further

2) Increase your clinical impact by sharing your practice

3) Balancing collecting the data you need for publication with the data that will serve your population is tricky

Bio: Stephanie Kirkland is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Heart Failure at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. She has over 26 years of experience as a registered nurse, her career has spanned both acute and community settings, giving her a broad perspective on managing complex heart failure conditions.

Stephanie led the NHS England initiative Managing Heart Failure @Home, where she developed an innovative palliative heart failure care model integrating telehealth. The project achieved international recognition in May 2025, where she was awarded first place in the Nurse and Allied Healthcare Professional category at the Heart Failure Congress in Belgrade. She also presented her work at the British Cardiovascular Society 2025 conference, sharing insights into the symptom burden, quality of life, and healthcare utilization of 72 patients with advanced heart failure. She is deeply committed to advancing palliative and end-of-life care for people living with advanced heart failure. Her passion lies in improving access to high-quality, compassionate care for this vulnerable patient group.

Find Stephanie online:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-kirkland-43b6a037b/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/nhsuhcw/posts/?feedView=all

https://www.linkedin.com/company/coventry-university-research-innovation/posts/?feedView=all

Stephanie’s Research:

https://heart.bmj.com/content/111/Suppl_3/A107

https://esc365.escardio.org/presentation/299154

Stephanie is reading:

The Bible

The Greatest Story Ever Told by Bear Grylls

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