{"id":726,"date":"2022-10-19T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=726"},"modified":"2024-12-03T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:28:32","slug":"caroline-knott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/caroline-knott\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Knott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2022, UK<\/p>\n<p>Caroline is a qualified nurse with 29 years\u2019 experience of clinical work, including 21 years as a Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse. She is currently an Operational Manager for four specialist nursing services in the community, having supported the implementation of a new electronic patient record in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Graduated with her BSc in 2001, Caroline also completed Non-medical prescribing in 2009 and a CMI Leadership Qualification in 2017. She is also a Queen&#8217;s Nurse and has been a Nurse Ambassador. In her spare time, she sings in a choir, enjoys running and Pilates, and has a one-eyed rescue dog called Cookie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obtaining the Queen&#8217;s Nurse Award<\/li>\n<li>Being seconded as an Operational Lead to support the implementation of a new electronic patient record for community services in the NHS<\/li>\n<li>21 years as a Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the MBA programme at Kent Business School and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To develop my strategic skills. Having moved into an operational role after the majority of my career in clinical practice, I had limited experience of making changes with strategic\/long-term consequences. I believe this course will support me with managing teams and making changes that will improve the delivery of patient care. I have wanted to study at master&#8217;s level for many years but put this on hold while my children were young.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For promotion within KCHFT, or to work in the NHS with a national focus steering the delivery of patient care, with either procurement, sustainability or digital technology focus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do not let mistakes hold you back. Learn from them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is the difference we have made to the life of others.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2022, UK Caroline is a qualified nurse with 29 years\u2019 experience of clinical work, including 21 years as a Bladder and Bowel Specialist Nurse. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2022\/10\/19\/caroline-knott\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79181,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249107],"tags":[187377,249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}