Ana Isabel Gutiérrez García is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Nursing. She graduated in Nursing in 2009 from the University of Alicante and worked as a nurse from 2009 to 2017, in an area linked to her specialisation studies. Specifically, her work activity focused on critical patient care units (hemodynamic and intensive care units) in Palma de Mallorca. At the same time, she was pursuing postgraduate and specialist studies in Hemodynamic Nursing and Vascular Interventional and Intensive Care in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands respectively.

Her research activity began with the Master’s Degree in Nursing Science Research at the University of Alicante in 2017. That same year she started her teaching activity as an assistant in the Department of Nursing, where she delivers courses in adult patient care and other subjects related to her work profile, such as Nursing Care in Specialist Units. Her participation in the subject Patient Care Culture, Education for Development and Critical Thinking is closely linked to her work as a member of the Research Group in Nursing and Patient Care Culture and to the subject of the thesis she is undertaking. Her main area of interest as a researcher interrelates patient care anthropology, transcultural nursing and the influence of culture on women’s health by addressing the experiences of women who have experienced female genital mutilation as an awareness-raising factor in the care offered by health professionals. In this line of research, she has participated in international conferences and congresses on traditional practices harmful to women’s health, the gender perspective in social and health systems and gender-based violence, and has published in high-impact international journals in the field of qualitative research and care.

She has delivered workshops for health professionals, social workers and students on female genital mutilation and its culturally competent approach as part of the transfer of research to society.

Moreover, she is involved in a funded project that takes a qualitative approach to social changes and their impact on the health of the elderly, which has led her to participate in international conferences on this issue.

She has also researched and published on teaching and assessment in higher education from an innovative perspective.