UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

Research Outputs and Direction

Researchers at the School: Gretchen Jordaan, Dr. Ashling Murphy, Dr. Elaine Meehan, Dawn Sinclair

School of Nursing and Midwifery, Growth, Innovation and Impact, 2013-2018 Report launched by Professor Pat O’Shea President UCC

Today research at the School of Nursing and Midwifery has been described as world leading, attracting funding from competitive national and EU funding bodies and programmes. During the five year period of 2013-2018 there was a growth of research funding to €4.5 million. Over the last 25 years the School has attained over 6.5 million in research funding; helped generate new knowledge which has been disseminated in over 1,500 research publications; graduated more than 50 doctoral students; impacted national policy in the areas of safe nurse staffing; nurse and midwifery education; evidence based practice; cancer survivorship; care of the older adult; primary care and public health nursing; chronic disease management; end of life health care ethics; and mental health.

Collaboration is key and at the core of research is expansive collaboration with International Experts/Schools, Government Bodies, Industry, Community and Health Services, Not for Profit Agencies and Funding Bodies.

In fact, almost 50% of the Schools publications are in collaboration with researchers across the globe. With more than 22% of our outputs published in the top 10% most cited publications worldwide. Indeed, our colleague Dr. Vera McCarthy together with the TRUST study group published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine titled ‘Thyroid Hormone Therapy for Older Adults with Subclinical Hypothyroidism’. The Journal has an impact factor of over 70.67 which is very large considering the disciplinary norms for nursing and midwifery are ordinarily between 2-4. Under Professor Drennan and Dr. Nicola Cornally’s stewardship the School is seeking to establish its first Research Centre in 2020. The research centre will be titled as the Centre for Safer Staffing and Heath care Systems research i.e. The CATALYST Centre – changing the way we deliver healthcare. The Centre will focus on two main areas in relation to health workforce research. The first will identify and implement systematic approaches to determine healthcare staffing and skill-mix requirements in primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare settings. The second main approach will identify interventions that will improve the working

Over the last 25 years the School has attained over 6.5 million in research funding; helped generate new knowledge which has been disseminated in over 1,500 research publications; graduated more than 50 doctoral students; impacted national policy

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