School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarly Impact Report 2021

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CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

DOCTORAL GRADUATIONS

Congratulations to Dr Selena O’Connell

Congratulations to Ms. Michelle Clifford

Congratulations to Ms Eleftheria Psarraki

Congratulations to Dr Selena O’Connell who graduated in November 2021 for a thesis titled:

Congratulations to Ms. Michelle Clifford who graduated in November with an MSc (by Research) for a thesis titled:

Ms Eleftheria Psarraki is a midwife working in CUMH and completed her MSc Midwifery in June 2021. She undertook research in light of the implementation of the maternity strategy, creating a Better Future Together (DoH 2016) that aims to provide more women centred care. It is not known how midwives working in the Irish Maternity models of midwifery led care or accompanying work patterns. Eleftheria undertook a cross-sectional survey to investigate these views by midwives and submitted her thesis in June 2021. Her supervisor was Agnes Phelan, School of Nursing and Midwifery.

The Development and Piloting of a Discrete Choice Experiment to Measure the Support Preferences of People with Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Ireland

Determining the biopsychosocial factors of chronic pain in older adults to inform the development of a risk appraisal checklist for use in long term care: a Delphi study

Supervisors: Professor Eileen Savage, Dr Vera McCarthy and Dr Desmond Murphy

Supervisors: Dr Nicola Cornally & Dr Serena FitzGerald