Nottinghamshire
Areas Covered: UK
Patronella Mukuva
General Nursing
Diabetes
Primary/Community Nursing
Wound Management
Dressing Management
Chronic Disease
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Failure to Refer
- General Nurse Diploma: Harare; Zimbabwe (1986)
- BSc Honours Psychology (Open University) 2:2 (2004)
- Diploma in Management of Diabetes in Primary Care (2004)
- MSc Health Psychology (2006)
- Working in Voluntary Organisations (Supporting Individuals EAU609 & EAU610) (2009)
- DESMOND Educator training (Diabetes Education and Self Management for On-going and Newly Diagnosed) (2010)
- Langwith course (Diabetes Management) (2011)
- Conversation Map Tools “Train the Trainer” Training (2012)
- Independent and Supplementary Nurse prescribing Course V300 (2013)
- Advanced Practice: Minor Illness; Blood Results Interpretation (2017)
- Royal College of Nursing
- Member of the British Psychological Society
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Diabetes UK
- 9 Years’ experience as a self-employed Nurse Practitioner at Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust specialising in the running of clinics.
- 2 years’ experience as a Community Specialist Nurse at Bromley Healthcare CIC, Croydon Community Diabetes Service, and Orpington Hospital where she specialised in diabetes care.
- 2 years’ experience as an Associate Tutor at Quality Care Academy: Northampton where she promoted specialist Diabetes Management in Primary Care.
- A further 5 years’ of experience as a diabetes specialist nurse across various trusts.
Patronella is a highly skilled nurse, and independent nurse prescriber specialising in diabetes care.
Since 2010, she has worked as a Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse and trainer, across different healthcare trusts, and GP practices advising patients and providing advice and guidance on complex diabetic care to other healthcare professionals. Her experience expands to almost 40 years across general nursing, community, acute care settings and GP practice. Managing health in primary care, Patronella has led specialist clinics including chronic disease management, coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD.
Patronella’s earlier career included metabolic disorder management, from initiation and titration of medications to maintaining normal levels of blood pressure, lipids and glucose in patients.