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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