School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarly Impact Report 2021

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CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

DOCTORAL GRADUATIONS

Dr Johnny Goodwin successfully defended his VIVA on 14th January 2021 Thesis title: Adolescents’ perceptions of mental health services: An interpretive descriptive stud y. Supervisors: Dr Aine O’Donovan, Dr Steve Bradley, Prof Eileen Savage Examiners: Prof Sally Thorne, University of British Columbia; Dr Brian Keogh, Trinity College Dublin; Dr James O’Mahony, University College Cork

Doctorate of Nursing Graduation 2021

navigating interactions involving persons with severe/profound intellectual disability. Dr Martin found that a focus on ability, rather than disability supports communication with people with severe/profound intellectual disability. Further, she found that the strategies peopleuse tocommunicate and interactwitheach other are the same but the extent of a person’s communication repertoire influences how these strategies are used.

Dr Nilma Pandit graduates after defending her doctoral thesis.

Title: ‘A study to assess the relationship of resilience, self- efficacy and social support among mothers who experienced stillbirth’

Lead and Team Members

External examiner: Professor Michele Butler, DCU

Dr Caples’s supervisors were Professor Eileen Savage and Dr Bridie McCarthy.

Internal examiner: Dr Elaine Lehane

Supervisors: Prof Patricia Leahy-Warren and Dr Rhona O’Connell.

Dr Martin’s supervisors were Dr. Tom Andrews and Professor Juliet Goldbart.

Chair: Dr Yvonne Nolan, University College Cork

Celebrations as two more doctorally prepared nurses graduate at UCC’s School of Nursing and Midwifery Dr. Maria Caples is a Lecturer in Intellectual Disability Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork. Her PhD thesis investigated the relationship between resilience factors and adaptation in families of children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. She found that family hardiness, condition management effort and condition management ability were the resiliency factors that most influenced adaptation for families of children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. A key implication of the findings is the need for a family centered, integrated approach to care for families of children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Dr Anne-Marie Martin is also a Lecturer in Intellectual Disability Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork. Her PhD thesis was titled: Reconciling communication repertoires: a classic grounded theory of

Pictured: Dr Johnny Goodwin