Yanxia Lin
University of Southampton | UK
Biography
Yanxia Lin is doing her PhD study of exploring and understanding the practice of transferring dying patient’s home from critical care units. She had worked as a nurse in a hospital of China for seven years, of which two years were in intensive care unit. The experiences of caring for dying patients and witnessing their families making the challenging decisions of taking the patients home motivated her to conduct the research. A literature review derived from this study is currently under revision for an international nursing journal. Yanxia carried out several studies in clinical context of China and had published eight papers before her PhD study. Beyond research, she also has experience of teaching in the School of Medicine at Xiamen University, and training hospital nurses in regard with clinical nursing as well as conducting research.