Hazel has worked extensively in publishing, as Editor of Nursing Older People, Assistant Clinical Editor for Nursing Standard, Acting Editor for Primary Health Care, Managing Editor on Nursing Management and Consultant Editor for Elderly Care.
She is currently:
- Consultant Editor Nursing to the Journal of Dementia Care
- On the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Older People Nursing
- With Jonathan Webster, Guest Editor for an Older People themed edition of the Journal of Nursing Maagement due for publication in March 2008
Hazel has successfully undertaken courses in journalism, advanced feature writing, article commissioning and managing journals.
Her published work includes over 50 journal articles and a range of monographs, reports, guidance booklets and tools.
She has edited six textbooks:
- Foundations in Nursing Theory and Practice (Elsevier, 1995)
- Older People and Nursing: Issues of Living in a Care Home, with Pauline Ford (Elsevier, 1996)
- Health Ageing: Nursing Older People, with Irene Schofield (Elsevier, 1999)
- The Challenge of Sexuality in Health Care, with Isabel White (Blackwell, 2002)
- Older People: Assessment for Health and Social Care, with Roger Watson (Age Concern, 2005)
- Older People and Mental Health Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, with Rebecca Neno and Barry Aveyard (Blackwell, 2007)