Joy Tickle is a Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist a position she has held for over 29 years. She has implemented and lead a successful and award-winning tissue viability service within Shropshire and is currently working as the Tissue Viability Nurse consultant/Clinical lead with the recently developed Isle of Wight Tissue Viability Service.

Joy has 40 years’ experience working within the NHS, in which she has engaged with various aspects of the discipline whilst retaining her passion and focus on patient wellbeing. She qualified as a RGN in Stoke-on-Trent in 1987 and has worked within surgical /vascular departments, paediatrics, and ophthalmology and then worked as a District Nursing sister for 8 years. Her passion for wound assessment and management fuelled her desire to work within tissue viability She really enjoys the challenges of tissue viability and treating the variety of patient conditions and wound aetiologies that present.

Joy is passionate about the training and development of the next generation of nurses and have been proud to help by sharing her knowledge through publications, lecturing, and presenting, both nationally, internationally, and online. She is a member of various professional groups within tissue viability and sits on the editorial board of the BJN Tissue Viability Supplement.

Joy has achieved awards in Health and Social Care, Wounds UK Award, Helen Buckle Nursing Award, Dr Steven Hugh Award, BJN Award. Joy was a presenter of the BAFTA award winning TV programme Embarrassing Bodies offering specialist advice with regards to all aspects of tissue viability. In 2011 joy completed her MSc in Science (Advanced Clinical Practice) much to the relief of her 2 sons and her partner) .