Priscilla Chong

Job title

Senior clinical practice educator for neonates

Qualifications

RN: Adult, MW, RN: Child, Bsc Health service management

Contact details

Phone number: 020 8216 5160

Email address: p.chong@nhs.net

Related services

Children's services

Biography

Priscilla is the senior clinical practice educator for neonates, based at Starlight neonatal unit at Barnet Hospital. She is an active member of the neonatal network and qualified as an adult nurse in Malaysia, then went on to work in neonates in Saudi Arabia for several years. Priscilla moved to the UK to continue her nursing career in north London and trained as a neonatal intensive care nurse and midwife. She has worked extensively in neonatal intensive care units in west London, becoming a sister while also attaining a diploma in nursing and then a Bsc (Hons) in Health service management. 

In 2000 Priscilla became a senior neonatal sister at Chase Farm Hospital, before becoming unit manager at the Barnet Hospital neonatal unit in 2004. She has always been a passionate and enthusiastic teacher of more junior staff and in 2013 took the opportunity to move from management into practice education.