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Sarah Taylor

Senior Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Role

Sarah Taylor has been at NTU as a Senior Lecturer since 2021.  She developed and validated the non-medical prescribing programme and currently leads on that course.

She teaches on several collaborative programmes which run at both degree and Masters level, these being:

  • Neonatal Care
  • Acute and Emergency Care
  • Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical Prescribing

Sarah also supports pre-registration nursing and paramedicine programmes as well as other CPD courses, including acting as a supervisor for dissertation projects at both degree and masters levels.

Sarah occupies the position of CPD framework lead as well as participating in academic irregularity and fitness to practice investigations.

Career overview

Sarah qualified as a nurse and then as a midwife.  She worked in the Midlands and then in the Channel Islands for a few years before beginning a career in reproductive medicine in 2004.  Since then, she became a nurse manager and an Advanced Practitioner.

Sarah is trained as a nurse under old standards in 1995 then went on to undertake a midwifery degree. Following this, she has specialised in reproductive medicine, undertaking a Masters degree in 2012 which included the non-medical prescribing qualification.

She developed the advancing nursing role for a local assisted reproductive medicine provider.

Sarah has worked in higher education since 2021 and has completed the level 7 apprenticeship in Academic Practice.  She holds a Senior Fellowship with Advance HE.  She became a Queen’s Nurse in 2025 in recognition of her commitment to standards.

Research areas

Sarah acts as a peer reviewer for national and international journals.


Sarah is leading a research project on the impact of the collaborative approach to continuing professional development.

Publications

Poster for a research proposal submitted as part of my Academic Practice Apprenticeship

https://journals.staffs.ac.uk/index.php/ipihe/index

Upcoming publication of a paper in Nursing Standard concerning the present position and future of Nurse prescribing due to be published October 2026

Course(s) I teach on