School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarly Impact Report 2021

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CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

GRADUATIONS

The School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork celebrates with their graduating international students

Graduations back on campus in UCC: MSc Nursing Students celebrate

Photographed is Margaret (Margo) Noonan, Faith Precious Omeokwe, Professor Josephine Hegarty (MSc supervisor) and Marion O’Donovan celebrating outside Áras na Mac Léinn, UCC

13 Nov 2021

The staff of the School of Nursing andMidwiferyweredelighted to celebratewithgraduating students and their families. Graduations are a time when the university celebrates the accomplishments and achievements of nursing and midwifery graduates. There were scenes of jubilation and celebration at University College Cork as conferring ceremonies made a very welcome return to campus after being held online last year due to the pandemic. Wishing them well for the future, Prof Josephine Hegarty said that it was her “earnest wish for graduates to flourish both professionally and personally” and she wished that each graduate had a very happy and productive career in the future.

Margaret (Margo) Noonan and Marion O’Donovan completed their Advanced Nursing Practice Masters, whilst Faith Precious Omeokwe graduated from her MSc in Nursing Studies programme at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork. Advanced practice nursing is a defined career and academic pathway for registered nurses, culminating in the qualification of nurses who are independent autonomous, expert nurses who are highly skilled practitioners and clinical leaders delivering quality care to an agreed group of patients/clients. Within her thesis Margo Noonan described measuring the Impact of an educational intervention on themale rapemyth acceptance level amongst adolescent males. She found that the educational intervention was successful in discrediting male rape myths among adolescent males attending an urban post primary school. Encouraging the challenging of male rape myths may lead to greater recognition of male sexual violence and to an acceptance that male rape is a serious issue that needs to be recognised with service and legislative developments to assist in the recovery of its victims.