{{Short description|British nurse and academic}} {{Use British English|date=November 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Fiona Ross | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = Fiona Mary Ross | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1951|10|23}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Nurse and scholar | years_active = | alma_mater = University of Edinburgh <br /> King's College, London | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Fiona Mary Ross''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (born 23 October 1951) is a British nurse and academic. She is Emerita Professor in Health and Social Care at Kingston University and an independent governor on the Westminster University Court. Formerly she was Dean at Kingston University and St George's, University of London, and also the director of research at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
==Early life and education== Ross was born on 23 October 1951 in London, England.<ref name="WW 2017" /> She was educated at James Allen's Girls' School, an all-girls private school in Dulwich, London.<ref name="WW 2017" /> She studied social science and nursing at the Department of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1973.<ref name="WW 2017" /><ref name="bio CHSCR" /> She later undertook postgraduate research in nursing studies at King's College, London, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1987.<ref name="WW 2017" /><ref name="bio CHSCR" /> Her doctoral thesis was titled "Evaluation of a drug guide in primary care".<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Ross |first1=Fiona M. |title=Evaluation of a drug guide in primary care. |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265898 |website=E-Thesis Online Service |publisher=The British Library Board |accessdate=16 May 2019 |date=1987 |type=Ph.D |archive-date=1 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201024430/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265898 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Career== Ross qualified as a registered nurse (RN) in 1975.<ref name="WW 2017" /> She started her nursing career in community and palliative care, before becoming a district nurse. Her academic career began as a researcher during her district nurse days, working at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. From 1983 to 1989, she was a lecturer in the Department of Nursing Studies of King's College, London. Having moved to St George's Hospital Medical School, she was a senior lecturer from 1990 to 1995. She was appointed Professor of Primary Care Nursing in 1996; this was the medical school's first chair in nursing.<ref name="WW 2017">'ROSS, Prof. Fiona Mary', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U283027 accessed 24 Oct 2017]</ref><ref name="bio CHSCR">{{cite web|title=Professor Fiona Ross CBE|url=http://www.healthcare.ac.uk/staff/professor-fiona-ross-cbe/|website=Centre for Health and Social Care Research|publisher=Kingston and St George's|accessdate=26 October 2017}}</ref>
Ross was Professor of Gerontological Nursing and the Director of the National Nursing Research Unit at King's College, London between 2002 and 2005. She joined Kingston University and St George's, University of London in 2006 as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Care. She was an expert advisor on the Prime Minister's independent commission into nursing and midwifery that published the Front Line Care (Report) in 2010.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Keen |first=Ann |title=Front Line Care - Report by the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England |date=2010 |publisher=Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England (crown copyright) |isbn=9780956513809}}</ref> In 2014, she took up two part-time posts: as director of research at the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE), and as Professor of Health Research at Kingston University and St George's, University of London.<ref name="WW 2017" /><ref name="bio CHSCR" /><ref name="QNI">{{cite web|title=Professor Fiona Ross CBE|url=https://www.qni.org.uk/people/professor-fiona-ross-cbe/|website=The Queen's Nursing Institute|accessdate=26 October 2017}}</ref> She stepped down from her role at the LFHE in 2017.<ref name="WW 2019">{{cite book |chapter=Ross, Prof. Fiona Mary |chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-283027 |title=Who's Who 2019 | title-link= Who's Who 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=16 May 2019 |date=1 December 2018|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U283027 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}</ref>
==Honours== In the 2015 New Year Honours, Ross was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to nursing".<ref name="LG">{{London Gazette |issue= 61092 |date= 31 December 2014 |page= N10 |supp= y }}</ref><ref name="KU CBE">{{cite web|title=Kingston University professor Fiona Ross awarded CBE in New Year's Honours list for contribution to healthcare and higher education|url=http://www.kingston.ac.uk/news/article/1451/07-jan-2015-kingston-university-professor-fiona-ross-awarded-cbe-in-new-years-honours-list-for-contribution-to/|publisher=Kingston University|accessdate=26 October 2017|date=7 January 2015}}</ref> She is a Fellow of the Queen's Nursing Institute,<ref name="QNI" /> and a Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Sciences.<ref name="bio CHSCR" />
==Personal life== In 1982, Ross married John C. Tatam. Together they have three children: one daughter and two sons and three grandchildren.<ref name="WW 2017" />
==Selected works==
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Redfern |editor1-first=Sally J. |editor2-last=Ross |editor2-first=Fiona M. |title=Nursing Older People |date=1999 |publisher=Churchill Livingstone |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-0443058745 |edition=3rd}} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Redfern |editor1-first=Sally J. |editor2-last=Ross |editor2-first=Fiona M. |title=Nursing Older People |date=2006 |publisher=Churchill Livingstone |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-0443074592 |edition=4th |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/nursingolderpeop0000unse }} * {{cite book |last1=Morrow |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Boaz |first2=Annette |last3=Brearley |first3=Sally |last4=Ross |first4=Fiona |title=Handbook of User Involvement in Nursing and Healthcare Research |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3chCXgV6lu0C |date=2012 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=Chichester |isbn=978-1444334722 }} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Fook |editor1-first=Jan |editor2-last=Collington |editor2-first=Val |editor3-last=Ross |editor3-first=Fiona |editor4-last=Ruch |editor4-first=Gillian |editor5-last=West |editor5-first=Linden |title=Researching Critical Reflection: Multidisciplinary Perspectives |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1138825178}} * {{cite journal|last1=Ross|first1=Fiona|last2=Woodfield|first2=Steve|title=Mutuality, Metaphor and Micropolitics in Collaborative Governance: a Joint Venture in UK Higher Education|journal=Higher Education Quarterly|date=January 2017|volume=71|issue=1|pages=33–52|doi=10.1111/hequ.12110|url=http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37228/1/Ross-F-37228-AAM.pdf}} * {{cite journal|last1=Morrow|first1=Elizabeth M.|last2=Goreham|first2=Helen|last3=Ross|first3=Fiona|title=Exploring research impact in the assessment of leadership, governance and management research|journal=Evaluation|date=16 October 2017|volume=23|issue=4|pages=407–431|doi=10.1177/1356389017730726|s2cid=148951728 }} Sims S, Fletcher S, Brearley S, Ross F, Manthorpe J, Harris R. What does Success Look Like for Leaders of Integrated Health and Social Care Systems? a Realist Review. International Journal of Integrated Care, 2021; 21(4): 26, 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.5936
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