MSc(Nur), PG Dip(Crit Care Child), RN

Clare is a registered nurse with more than 20 years of experience in paediatrics. She trained in the United Kingdom and spent five years working in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Birmingham Children’s Hospital before relocating to South Africa to join the CNDU as the continent’s first lecturer in their groundbreaking postgraduate programme in Critical Care Child Nursing. Over the next 13 years, she played a key role in shaping and leading the Postgraduate Diplomas in Child and Critical Care Child Nursing, first as lecturer and later as programme lead. Since 2021, Clare has led the design and development of another ‘Africa first’ in nursing education - the suite of Essentials of Nursing Children short courses. These innovative courses use an asynchronous, online approach to expand training opportunities for nurses working with children across sub-Saharan Africa.

In addition to this, Clare serves as the Instructional Design Lead for the Unit and is one of three members of its Executive Committee. She earned her Master of Nursing in Child Nursing from the University of Cape Town in 2013 and is currently pursuing her PhD. Her research, “Augmenting access and learning for children’s nurses across Africa through an innovatively designed online short course,” aims to address region-specific challenges in paediatric nursing education and to develop resources that guide educators in implementing effective online learning approaches.

Clare’s contributions to nursing education have been recognized through her award as Emerging Researcher at the 2025 UCT Faculty of Health Sciences Education Conference for her pioneering work in children’s nursing education