Scholarly Impact Report 2023

CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

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PART A: TEACHING, CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY AND PRACTICE, AWARDS

Dr. Moira O’Donovan Perpetual Award Launched. Dr Moira O’Donovan began her nursing career in 1982 when she commenced Psychiatric nurse training in Fairview Hospital, Dublin followed by her General Nursing training in 1987. She practiced in Dublin, London, Perth, and Melbourne but ultimately returned to her native Cork. It was her immense clinical experience that was the cornerstone of her teaching and learning which she shared with undergraduate and post graduate students over many years. As a Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Moira was influential and progressed mental health nursing education since joining the school in 2000. Moira had a keen interest in supporting students to be the very best healthcare communicators possible and her work in this area is an important legacy. She instilled hope, empathy, and compassion in her teaching practices, and she impacted every student through her strong connection with service user and advocacy fora. The Moira O’Donovan Perpetual Award will be awarded annually to a student graduating from the BSc Nursing and Midwifery programmes who has made a positive difference in championing Mental Health Nursing.

Work of Dr Moira O’ Donovan (RIP) published in International Journal of Mental Health Nursing We are honoured to have been in a position to publish the work of our dear colleague and friend Dr Moira O’Donovan (RIP). You can find the paper in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing @IJMHN linked here: http://doi.org/10.1111/inm.13185 Moira was so committed to this work and she would be so happy to see it published and accessible to all. We hope her work will inform practice and scholarly activity as mental health nursing students will be directed to this paper and her other scholarly outputs. While unable to have Moira included as the author of the paper, we have included explicit reference to this being her work from her Doctorate in the acknowledgements section and included a link to a short biography provided as a Supplementary Information file. You can read this biography alongside the paper and learn about our deeply missed colleague who was a compassionate educator and a kind friend.

Read the paper by clicking here