Meet our Research Nurses
Ashitha Bhaskaran
- Hospital: St. James's Hospital
- Current role: Clinical Placement Coordinator
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: The Experience of Internship Nursing Students during the COVID pandemic in a large teaching hospital in Ireland: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Ann Connolly
- Hospital: Children's Health Ireland at Tallaght
- Current role: Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Childhood Epilepsy
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: The efficacy and tolerability of Levetiracetam as a first line monotherapy in childhood epilepsy
Mary Doyle
- Hospital/Service provider: Peamount Healthcare
- Current role: Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Exploring experiences of the nursing team working in a residential care facility for older adults during COVID
Archana D'Souza
- Hospital/Service provider: St. James's Hospital
- Current role: Education and Training Co-ordinator, Mercers Institute of Successful Ageing
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: The experience of internship nursing students during the COVID pandemic in a large teaching hospital in Ireland: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Nicola Farrand
- Hospital: St. James's Hospital
- Current role: cANP Emergency Cardiology
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Clinical presentation of patients with COVID-19 with cardiovascular disease
Aoife Farrington
- Hospital: St. Patrick's Mental Health Services
- Current role: Clinical Placement Coordinator
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Student Mental Health Nurse experiences of working with adolescents with eating disorders.
Helen FitzGerald
- Hospital: Tallaght University Hospital
- Current role: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Paediatric Diabetes
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Evaluating the effectiveness of a hospital based structured education programme for School staff caring for children with Type 1 Diabetes.
Marie King
- Hospital: St. Patrick's Mental Health Services
- Current role: Student Allocations Liaison Nurse
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: An evaluation of Psychiatric Nurse confidence in recognising a physically deteriorating patient
Shane Kirwan
- Hospital: St. Patrick's Mental Health Services
- Current role: Nurse Practice Development Coordinator
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Nurse Leadership in Implementing Digital Health Change in an Irish Mental Health Service
Martina Leigh
- Hospital/Service provider: Muiríosa Foundation
- Current role: Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
- Name of TCPHI Research Project:
Christina Lydon
- Hospital: Tallaght University Hospital
- Current role: Assistant Director of Nursing, Nurse Practice Development
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Evaluation of Critical Care Outreach Services
Shaini Paul Mathew
- Hospital: Tallaght University Hospital
- Current role: ADON, Infection Prevention and Control
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Knowledge, attitudes and self reported practices of Healthcare Professionals on Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacterales
Deirdre McGuone
- Hospital: St. James's Hospital
- Current role: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Emergency Cardiology
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Clinical presentation of patients with COVID and cardiovascular disease.
Julie O'Grady
- Hospital: St. James's Hospital
- Current role: Director, Learning and Development (Interim)
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Nutrition, Nursing Metrics
Ambily Velayudhan
- Hospital/Service provider: St. James's Hospital
- Current role: Clinical Placement Coordinator
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: The experiences of internship students during COVID 19 pandemic in a large teaching hospital in Ireland: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Eva Whelan
- Hospital/Service provider: Stewarts Care Ltd
- Current role: (Acting NPDU/Clinical Nurse Specialist in Infection Prevention and Control (CNS IPC)
- Name of TCPHI Research Project: Assessment of barriers to the uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine through a peer vaccination program within an intellectual disability setting.
Ciara Mc Hale
- Hospital: St. James's Hospital
- Current role: Clinical Nurse Manager 3, Education and Training Co-ordinator, Critical Care Areas
- Name of TCPHI Research Project:TCD-SJH-TUH Critical Care Nursing Research Group- ‘New Graduate Nurses Experiences of Transitioning into Critical Care