Clinical Nurse Specialist

Tara has been working as Lead Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board for 21 years. During this time, she’s had lots of opportunities to develop professionally.  

She currently provides nurse-led clinics using advanced decision-making skills to assess, examine, diagnose and prescribe/treat liver disease. She also manages a team of nurses who provide clinics in community drug and alcohol clinics, and prisons, with the aim to eliminate Viral Hepatitis in the community. 

Tara has completed courses in fields that are relevant and interesting to her. She completed her Master’s Degree in Advanced Nursing Practice with Cardiff University in 2017 whilst an employee at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. 

“As a Clinical Nurse Specialist my learning has been very clinical. However, I am now at a stage where my learning, through leadership, is more strategic.” 

“Being a nurse at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has given me so many opportunities. It has exposed me to such complexities in care.  It has given me the opportunity to work with the most inspiring, intelligent and driven people. 

More importantly, it has given me the opportunity to work with such amazing patients who challenge and inspire me daily.” 

“If I had to do it all again, I would still choose to be a nurse. To be part of peoples’ lives at their most vulnerable and be able to make a difference is such a privilege that should never be taken for granted. It still challenges me, and you never stop learning and being inspired.”