FINAL BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 2019

School of Nursing and Midwifery Scoil an Altranais agus an Chnáimhseachais

Second Session

Professor Corina Naughton

Professor Corina Naughton is

Professor of Clinical Nursing in Older

Person’s Healthcare, a joint

appointment between University

College Cork and the Health Service

Executive South/South Western

Hospital group. Corina was a Senior

Lecture with specialist interest in

older people care in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery,

King’s College London and was a lecturer in the School of Nursing and

Midwifery, University College Dublin.

Corina’s work and research focuses on evidence translation into clinical practice to develop an age- attuned workforce and environment with a particular focus on frailty and dementia. Her current research activity includes developing and evaluating a multidisciplinary intervention to optimise the recovery potential of hospitalised older adults; testing an education-career pathway in gerontological nursing (ECHO) to increase retention of early career nurses in the speciality; evaluation of nutrition optimisation strategies in acute care; and testing a dementia communication intervention for pre-registration nurses. She has written on topics including gerontological nurse education, elder abuse, older people in emergency departments, prescribing and de-prescribing practice, and extended professional roles for nurses such as medication and ionising radiation prescribing

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