President: Dr. Peter Vickers, Cert Ed., Dip CD., SRN, RSCN

President: Dr. Peter Vickers, Cert Ed., Dip CD., SRN, RSCN, BA, PhD, FHEA
Peter Vickers initially trained as a school teacher and taught art and crafts in primary,
secondary and special schools, as well as with the British Forces in Germany. In
addition he had other jobs, mainly manual, including sausage-making, farming,
working in a cemetery and as a postman, before commencing nurse training in York.
After qualifying as a nurse, he worked on the paediatric unit in York – where he
nursed his first child with a severe immunodeficiency (Schwachman-Diamond
Syndrome) in 1983. This means that he has been involved in Immunology and
Immunodeficiency for 30 years, because he then moved to Great Ormond Street in
London to specialise in Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Whilst there
he obtained a first degree in molecular biochemistry and genetics and later
undertook research into the effects of isolation and hospitalisation on children (and
their families) who had been treated for SCID, for which he was awarded his
doctorate. This research took place in the UK and Germany, and formed the basis
for a published book on SCID and the effects of early isolation and hospitalisation on
children - and their families. In addition he has written many chapters on Immunology
and Immunodeficiency in various Nursing textbooks, and has also co-authored a
book on writing a research proposal for health care professionals. As well as writing,
he has presented papers on immunology and immunodeficiency at many
conferences in Europe and the UK - and North Africa.
Now semi-retired, he occasionally works as a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the
University of Hertfordshire, and when not working continues to play his many brass
musical instruments – to the delight of his neighbours!
Research Activity:
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1991-1998 (PhD) Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome: A
Paediatric Emergency and a Chronic Disease?
(Physical and psychosocial development of children, and their families,
following matched or haploidentical mismatched bone marrow transplantation
for one of the severe combined immunodeficiency disorders.)
2005-2008 Living with Cancer (The effectiveness of palliative care services in
South Bedfordshire in meeting the needs of adult patients with cancer and the
needs of their families). With Lisa Whiting
Publications and Presentations
Books
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Vickers P.S (2009) Severe Combined Immunodeficiency: Early hospitalisation
and isolation. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell
Offredy O. & Vickers P.S. (2010) Developing a Healthcare Research Proposal
(with accompanying web programme). Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell
Book/ Journal Chapters
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Vickers P.S. (2005) ‘Acquired Immunity’ in Montague et al. (Eds.) Physiology
for Nursing Practice. Edinburgh, Elsevier
Vickers P.S. (2006) ‘Communicating with Children and Families’ in Peate &
Whiting (Eds.) Caring for Children and Families. Chichester, John Wiley
Vickers P.S. (2007) ‘Primary deficiencies of the innate immune system’ in
Glasper et al. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s
Nursing. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Vickers P.S. (2007); ‘Antibody deficiencies in children’ in Glasper et al. (Eds.)
Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing. Oxford, Oxford
University Press
Vickers P.S. (2007) ‘Severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCIDS) in
children’ in Glasper et al. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young
People’s Nursing. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Vickers P.S. (2007) ‘Care of the immunosuppressed child’ in Glasper et al.
(Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Children’s and Young People’s Nursing. Oxford,
Oxford University Press
Vickers P.S. (2007 ‘Mumps’ in Glasper et al. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of
Children’s and Young People’s Nursing. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Vickers P.S. (2007) ‘Measles’ in Glasper et al. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of
Children’s and Young People’s Nursing. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Vickers P.S. (2007) ‘Rubella’ in Glasper et al. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of
Children’s and Young People’s Nursing. Oxford, Oxford University Press
Vickers P.S., Gardulf A. & Warner A. (2008) ‘The role of nurses in recognizing
and caring for patients with primary immunodeficiencies’ Pharmaceuticals
Policy and Law 10:1-8
Vickers P.S. (2009) ‘Cell and body tissue physiology’ in Muralitharam & Peate
(Eds.) Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell
Vickers P.S. (2009)’, ‘Cancer’ in Muralitharam & Peate (Eds.) Fundamentals
of Applied Pathophysiology. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell
Vickers P.S. (2009) ‘Inflammation, immune response and healing’ in
Muralitharam & Peate (Eds.) Fundamentals of Applied Pathophysiology.
Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell
Vickers P.S. (2011) ‘Basic Scientific Principles of Physiology’ in Muralitharam
& Peate (Eds.) Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology for Student Nurses.
Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell
Vickers P.S. (2011) ‘The Immune System’ in Muralitharam & Peate (Eds.)
Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology for Student Nurses. Chichester,
Wiley-Blackwell
Vickers P.S. (2011) ‘Genetics’ in Muralitharam & Peate (Eds.) Fundamentals
of Anatomy and Physiology for Student Nurses. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell
Vickers P.S. (2012) ‘Caring for People with Immune Problems’ in Peate, Nair,
Hemming, Wild (Eds.) LeMone & Burke’s Adult Nursing: Acute and Ongoing
Care. Harlow, Pearson
Publications in Journals
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Vickers P.S. (1990) ‘A Bleak Inheritance: Overview of Primary
Immune Deficiency Disorders’ Nursing 4.22: 18-21
Vickers P.S. (1990) ‘Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome’
Nursing 4.23: 32-35
Vickers P.S. (1990) ‘Mismatched Bone Marrow Transplants’ Nursing
4.24: 33-36 8.
Vickers P.S. & Brennan N (1991) ‘Nurses and Primary Immune
Deficiency Disorders’ (booklet) London, Primary Immunodeficiency
Association
Vickers P.S. (1994) ‘Physical and psychosocial development of
children following long-term isolation and matched or haploidentical
mismatched bone marrow transplantation for one of the severe
immunodeficiency disorders: A preliminary study’. The Journal of the
European Blood & Marrow Transplant Nurses Group 1994.1:39-48
Vickers P.S. & Abbey J. (1995) Administration of Intravenous
Immunoglobulin Therapy to Children at Home. In Administering
Intravenous Therapy to Children in the Community. London, Royal
College of Nursing.
Vickers P.S. (1999) Alienation of children and families following
BMT for SCIDS. Bone Marrow Transplantation 23 Supp. 1 S258
Vickers P.S. (2000) A theoretical model of stress and coping in patients and
families during and following bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow
Transplantation 25 suppl 1 S302
Abbey J., Vickers P. S., Hague A. (2001) Administering Immunoglobulins In
Keating P. (Ed.) Administering Intravenous Therapy to Children in the
Community Setting (3rd. Ed.) London, Royal College of Nursing
Warner A., Gardulf A. & Vickers P.S., (2007) ‘The role of nurses in
recognizing and caring for patients with primary immunodeficiencies’ The
Source (PPTA) Summer pp. 20-25
Bonner E., Vickers P.S. & Mead M. (2007) Low mood and incontinence in
postnatal women. Continence UK 1(3) 41-50
Vickers P.S. (2008) ‘Bug and superbug (with apologies to George Bernard
Shaw)’ Clinical and Experimental Immunology 154 (supp. 1): 23
Vickers P.S. (2008) ‘The nursing care of children with severe combined
immune deficiency and their families (abstract)’ Revue Morocaine des
Maladies de L’Enfant 18:98
Whiting L. & Vickers P.S. (2010) Conducting qualitative research with
palliative care patients: applying Hammick’s research ethics wheel.
International Journal of Palliative Care. 16:2 58-69
Presentations
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1988 ‘The Nursing care of Children with AIDS’. (Invited Guest Speaker) RCN
Paediatric Association Conference, Edinburgh, UK
1990 ‘Children, HIV and AIDS’. RCN HIV & AIDS Conference, Scarborough,
UK
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1994 ‘Physical and psychosocial development of children following long-term
isolation and matched or haploidentical mismatched bone marrow
transplantation for one of the severe immunodeficiency disorders: A
preliminary study’. European Blood & Marrow Transplant Nurses Group
Conference, Harrogate, England.
1995 ‘Administration of Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy to Children at
Home’. (Invited Guest Speaker) RCN Paediatric Community Nurses Forum
Annual Conference, London, UK
1996 ‘Physical and psychosocial development of children following long-term
isolation and matched or haploidentical mismatched bone marrow
transplantation for one of the severe immunodeficiency disorders’. (Invited
Guest Speaker) Conference of the Working Party for Inborn Errors, European
Blood & Marrow Transplant Medical Group, Dublin, Ireland
1998 ‘Long-term psychosocial functioning of children with SCIDS’.
International Nurses Group for Immune Deficiencies Conference, Rhodes,
Greece
1999 ‘Alienation in children and families following BMT for SCIDS’. (Keynote
Speaker) European Blood and Marrow Transplant Nurses Group Conference,
Hamburg, Germany
1999 ‘The Impact of Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome’.
(Invited Guest Speaker) Conference of Advanced Haematology,
Hammersmith, London, UK
2000 ‘A theoretical model of stress and coping in patients and families during,
and following bone marrow transplantation’. European Blood and Marrow
Transplant Nurses Group Conference, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 ‘Stresses and coping in families with very ill babies in hospital’ (Invited
Guest Speaker) Conference of the Society for Reproductive and Infant
Psychology. New College, Oxford, UK
2002 ‘Alienation and post-traumatic stress syndrome in children and their
families following BMT for SCIDS’. (Invited Speaker) UH Research
Conference, Hertfordshire, UK.
2003 ‘Education for immunology nurses’. UK Primary Immunodeficiency
Network Conference, York, UK
2004 ‘Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens’ RCN Allergy and Immunology Nurses
Conference. Hertfordshire, UK
2004 ‘An Early Puzzle’ – Schwachman Syndrome’ RCN Allergy and
Immunology Nurses Conference. Hertfordshire, UK
2004 ‘The New Genetics and Immunodeficiencies’ (Invited Keynote Speaker).
International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies Conference, Versailles,
France
2004 ‘New electronic learning techniques for immunology nurses’ (Invited
Speaker) International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies Conference,
Versailles, France
2005 ‘Education for Immunology Nurses’. UK Primary Immunodeficiency
Network, York, UK
2006 ‘Educational Outreach Efforts by Nurses’ (Invited Speaker). The EU
Consensus Conference on Immunodeficiencies. Langen, Germany
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2006 ‘Alienation and Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome in Primary
Immunodeficiencies’. International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies,
Budapest, Hungary
2007 ‘Ethical and design issues: palliative care research’ Taking research
forward: What’s new in Primary and Social Care Research in Bedfordshire?
Bedford, UK
2007 ‘Stress and Coping in Primary Immunodeficiencies’. UK Primary
Immunodeficiency Network, Leeds, UK
2008 ‘Bug & Superbug (with apologies to George Bernard Shaw)’
International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The
Netherlands
2008 ‘Les Immunodéficits Primaires (Les Immunodéficits Combinés Graves) –
soins
psychosiaux’
(psychosocial
care
in
severe
combined
immunodeficiency), (Invited Guest Speaker) Conference of the African
Society for Immunodeficiencies, Casablanca, Morocco
2008 ‘Les Immunodéficits Primaires (Les Immunodéficits Combinés Graves) –
soins physique’ (physical care in severe combined immunodeficiency), Invited
Guest Speaker & Leader of Workshop) Workshop at the Service
d’Hématologie et d’Oncologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital d’Université Ibn Rochd
(Conference of the African Society for Immunodeficiencies), Casablanca,
Morocco
2009 ‘Living with Cancer’ University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK (with Lisa
Whiting)
2009 ‘Étonne-moi: a Brief Guide to Presenting’. RCN Allergy and Immunology
Nurses Conference, Nottingham, UK
2009 ‘Using a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to reach students who
would not normally be able to access a course’. RCN Joint Education Forums’
2nd International conference – Nursing health care workforce, Glasgow ,
UK(with Liz Gormley-Fleming)
2010 ‘Virtual learning Environments in Practice’. UH Annual learning and
Teaching Conference, Hatfield, UK (with Liz-Gormley Fleming).
2010 ‘The Normal Immune System’. (Educational Day) Conference of the
International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies, Istanbul, Turkey.
2010 ’Pregnancy & the Immune System’ Conference of the International
Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies, Istanbul, Turkey.
2012 ‘Education through the internet and other distance learning strategies’
RCN Allergy and Immunology Nurses Conference, Manchester, UK (with
Mohninder Ryatt)
2012 ‘Education through the internet and other distance learning strategies’
Conference of the International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies,
Florence, Italy
2012 ‘Does Age Matter: Aging and the immune system’ Conference of the
International Nursing Group for Immunodeficiencies, Florence, Italy

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