Meet the Team

Dionne Daniel

Dionne is an Associate Director of Nursing for Clinical Practice at Epsom and St Helier University NHS Trust. She has worked in the NHS for   over 20 years having migrated from Trinidad and Tobago where she trained and started her career.

She has worked in a variety of roles including: Ward Manager, Site Manager and Practice Development Nurse in the Director of Nursing’s Corporate team. Her background is acute medicine with an interest in diabetes and endocrinology and the care of older people. She recently was involved in researching the experience of nursing associates and has published two articles based on this work.

She is involved in the RCN as a Learning Representative and is a member of the Chief Nursing Officer’s BME Strategic advisory group and is an NHS APP Ambassador.

Dionne has an interest in history especially the history of nursing and normally supports International Nursing Day display boards. Her history of nursing interest is varied but she has a special interest in Windrush Nurses, intersectionality in nursing and radical nurses. She is looking forward to supporting the work of the committee.

Nicola Ring

Nicola Ring is a Professor of Nursing in the School of Health and Social Care at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. 

After working in hospital practice (adult and child nursing) and in the community as a health visitor, Nicola moved into nursing education 20 years. She is an experienced health researcher however, her absolute passion, is the history of nursing – using evidence from our profession’s past to better understand nursing today.

Her previous nursing research has included an investigation of the careers of early UK graduate nurses (1960s-80s). Most recently she has been leading a multi-disciplinary team (nursing, midwifery, and law) researching an over-looked shared aspect of nursing and midwifery history - the women and men accused of witchcraft for their curing and caring work in early modern times. This work focuses on Scotland during the time of the Witchcraft Act 1563-1737.  The initial project was funded by the RCN Foundation in support of the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife (2020) but, work continues.