Kirsty Dalrymple

Kirsty is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Dundee.

Prior to nursing Kirsty obtained a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Glasgow. She then undertook the Shortened Course for Graduates at Edinburgh Napier University and obtained a Diploma in Adult Nursing in 1996. She completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in 2015.

Kirsty started her nursing career in the Adult Leukaemia Unit at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. She then spent time working as a Research Nurse at both the University of Manchester and Dundee. More recently she worked for the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service as a Transfusion Practitioner. Whilst working as a Transfusion Practitioner Kirsty was involved in national initiatives such as the introduction of a national framework to allow nurses to authorise blood components and changing practice from a two practitioner check for blood components to a single practitioner check.