Debbie Baldie

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Debbie Baldie is a part time practice development nurse in NHS Tayside and a part time clinical research fellow within Alliance for Self care Research. She has previously held positions in service redesign, renal services, haematology, surgery and orthopaedics.

Research interests

Debbie’s personal research interests are in patients’ experience of self care and learning how health care staff can best tailor their interpersonal interactions with patients to maximise self care behaviors in the individual.

Current research work: Exploring patients’ views of self managing community acquired pneumonia at home. This exploratory study seeks to identify how patients with low risk pneumonia experience the hospital assessment and decisions about where and how they will be treated. Low risk, community acquired pneumonia can be effectively managed at home and this study also seeks to explore how patients find the period of self management in their homes and their views of the support and information they may have received during that time.