UCC Nursing & Midwifery Scholarly Impact Report 2022

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CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATIONS

Year Four Mental Health Student Nurses Celebrate Completion of BSc Nursing Programme As part of their final group Prep Day, the 4 th year mental health nursing students (2018 group) celebrated with The Blessing of the Hands in the Honan Chapel, UCC. The ceremony was attended by Dr Maria O’Malley, Dr Johnny Goodwin, Sinead Heffernan, Dr Caroline Dalton, Anne Kelly, Norma Sexton, Joan McSweeney, and Marie-Therese Keating. Dr MariaO’Malley officiated the event. Dr CarolineDalton spoke to the students about the important contribution of nurses to the health care services and the value of holding a nursing qualification. Dr Johnny Goodwin, programme lead, read a poem he composed for the group. The class rep, Caroline Harrington also read a poem she composed, and Emer Murphy spoke on behalf of the class. Ciara McGillycuddy was awarded the Niall O’ Mahony perpetual award. Niall was a nurse tutor on the psychiatric nursing programme up to 2003 and the award was created in 2004 to honour Niall’s memory and his contribution to the Mental Health Services.

Final Year Children’s and General (Integrated) Nursing Students have End of Programme Celebrations and Blessing of Hands Ceremony Our heartfelt congratulations to the 2017 Children’s & General Integrated Nursing students on their End of Programme Celebrations & Blessing of Hands Ceremony which took place on the 7 th of March 2022. Thank you to Professor Josephine Hegarty, Head of School, Dr Aileen Burton, Director of Undergraduate Clinical Practice Education, Ms Anne-Marie Galvin (CUH), and Ms Maria O’Shea, Dr Margaret Curtin & Ms June Considine from the Integrated team for their words of encouragement. We wish the graduates all the very best in their future careers.