Patience Ndlovu Udonsi

Recognition Type	Awards and prizes (external)

Royal College of Nursing North West Award for Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
2023

Recognition Type	Awards and prizes (external)
Description	Reducing the impact of health inequalities has been central to the nursing career of Patience Udonsi, with a particular focus on supporting people with a learning disability and people minoritised by their race and ethnicity. Her intersectional knowledge and practice have prevented re-admissions and promoted community participation and integration. Patience is dual qualified as a Learning Disabilities Nurse and Social Worker, using this extensive knowledge base to develop intervention programmes for people with complex and distressed behaviours. In her research, Patience has published, making a valuable contribution to knowledge that furthers our understanding of the needs of minoritised ethnic people with learning disabilities. Her published article ‘Young, gifted and Black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence’ deconstructs the racist impacts of the neoliberal individual budget agenda as experienced by a young Black African person with intellectual disabilities and autism, living as a second-generation migrant in the UK. As an academic, Patience uses her knowledge and skills to support students. Patience has been central in contributing to Simulation in Nursing and Social Work; she developed a week-long innovative high-fidelity immersive simulation with an intersectional lens. Students highly evaluate the simulation, which has helped develop their practice in multiple areas, including cultural competency, understanding and addressing intersectional needs, assessment skills and report writing. In addition, Patience is one of four academics facilitating a 300 membered Black and ethnically minoritised student collective, the largest group in the UK higher education sector. s of its kind in the country. The collective was established in June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd and in recognition of Black Lives Matter. It is a model of best practice in anti-racist action to empower students impacted by intersectional racism in their lives, attracting local, regional, and national interest from external industry stakeholders.

Recognition Type

Awards and prizes (external)

Description

Reducing the impact of health inequalities has been central to the nursing career of Patience Udonsi, with a particular focus on supporting people with a learning disability and people minoritised by their race and ethnicity. Her intersectional knowledge and practice have prevented re-admissions and promoted community participation and integration. Patience is dual qualified as a Learning Disabilities Nurse and Social Worker, using this extensive knowledge base to develop intervention programmes for people with complex and distressed behaviours.

In her research, Patience has published, making a valuable contribution to knowledge that furthers our understanding of the needs of minoritised ethnic people with learning disabilities. Her published article ‘Young, gifted and Black: the intersectionality of race, intellectual disability and neurodivergence’ deconstructs the racist impacts of the neoliberal individual budget agenda as experienced by a young Black African person with intellectual disabilities and autism, living as a second-generation migrant in the UK.

As an academic, Patience uses her knowledge and skills to support students. Patience has been central in contributing to Simulation in Nursing and Social Work; she developed a week-long innovative high-fidelity immersive simulation with an intersectional lens. Students highly evaluate the simulation, which has helped develop their practice in multiple areas, including cultural competency, understanding and addressing intersectional needs, assessment skills and report writing.

In addition, Patience is one of four academics facilitating a 300 membered Black and ethnically minoritised student collective, the largest group in the UK higher education sector. s of its kind in the country. The collective was established in June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd and in recognition of Black Lives Matter. It is a model of best practice in anti-racist action to empower students impacted by intersectional racism in their lives, attracting local, regional, and national interest from external industry stakeholders.

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