School of Nursing & Midwifery
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Nursing and Midwifery
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Patient Portal for Young People and Children with Hydrocephalus: Scoping Review & Stakeholder Consultation
(Trinity College Dublin, 2023)The new Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) Hospital will be completely digital with an electronic health record (EHR) and integrated patient portal procured to date. Patient portals provide direct access for health service ... -
Barriers and Enablers for Adolescents Accessing Substance-Use Treatment: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
(2024)Substance use is a persistent concern for adolescents in many countries due to the significant negative impact on mental, physical and social outcomes. US research indicates that while 4.1% of 12–17-year-olds require ... -
Intervention to promote adolescents' communication and engagement in diabetes clinic encounters: A pilot randomized controlled trial
(2024)Aim: To conduct a pilot randomized trial of an intervention to improve adolescent question-asking and provider education during paediatric diabetes visits. Methods: Adolescents aged 11 to 17 with type 1 diabetes and ... -
Traveller Community Engagement with Local Mental Health Services in Dublin North City and County
(School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 2024)Irish Travellers are an ethnic group, with a long history, traditions, language, culture and customs based on a nomadic tradition which sets them apart from settled people (Pavee Point, 2017). The Central Statistics ... -
A mother's journey: The meaning of having a baby born too soon for postnatal women in Malawi
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: Preterm birth remains a critical global health challenge, particularly in resource-constrained settings such as Malawi, where maternal and neonatal healthcare resources are often limited. While it is undeniably ... -
Acute hospital staff�s attitudes towards dementia and perceived dementia knowledge: a cross-sectional survey in Ireland
(2020)R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open Access Acute hospital staff’s attitudes towards dementia and perceived dementia knowledge: a cross-sectional survey in Ireland Brian Keogh 1*† , Wing Ting To1†, Louise Daly1 , Geralyn ... -
Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing.
(2024)Ethics is a foundational competency in healthcare inherent in everyday nursing practice. Therefore, the promotion of qualified nurses' and nursing students' moral competence is essential to ensure ethically high-quality ... -
Vicarious trauma among nurses working in addiction services and the role of leadership: a European mixed methods study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: The phenomenon of vicarious trauma (VT) has been the subject of considerable attention for over 30 years, but its impact on nurses in addiction services remains poorly understood, despite the established link ... -
Augmenting K-means Clustering with Qualitative Data to Discover Engagement Patterns of Older Adults with Multimorbidity when using Digital Health Technologies: Findings from a Proof-of-Concept Trial
(2024)Background: Multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity) are becoming more prevalent among aging populations. Digital health technologies have the potential to assist in the self-management of multimorbidity, improving the ... -
Evaluation of the Introduction of Schwartz Rounds in Ireland
(Health Services Executive, 2019)The overall aim of the evaluation was to establish whether Schwartz Rounds are fit for purpose in the Irish Health Service. The evaluation was guided by four key questions: • Whether Schwartz Rounds are suitable for ... -
Overweight and obesity in older adults with an intellectual disability
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)This research is situated within the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) a nationally representative study involving 753 participants with an intellectual disability ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Older Adults with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background On the 11th of March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Governments around the world took unprecedented actions to implement public health measures to control the spread of ... -
Encouraging adolescents participation during paediatric diabetes clinic visits: Design and development of a question prompt list intervention
(2022)Aims: To investigate adolescents’ communication with healthcare providers (HCPs) and co– design a question prompt list as one part of an intervention to increase patient participation and communication at diabetes ... -
Lost in Transition: How to Close the Care Gap for Childhood Cancer Survivors. Blog on World Cancer Day
(2022)As if growing up wasn’t hard enough, the transition from paediatric to adult care can be a particularly confusing and overwhelming experience for the survivors of childhood cancer. On World Cancer Day 2022, let’s think ... -
Exploring Recruitment to Randomised Trials Within Current Clinical Care Pathways: A Qualitative Case Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: Randomised clinical trials constitute a cornerstone in the establishment of evidence-based healthcare practices (Hariton & Locascio 2018). Internationally, a positive correlation exists between the degree of ... -
Promoting kidney health in people with type 2 diabetes: part 2
(2023)The incidence of chronic kidney disease is increasing internationally with many risk factors for chronic kidney disease also being risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Nurses should use primary, secondary and tertiary prevention ... -
Promoting kidney health in people with type 2 diabetes: part 1
(2023)The incidence of chronic kidney disease is increasing internationally with risk factors for the condition being the same as those for type 2 diabetes. It is important therefore for nurses to use primary, secondary and ... -
The Support Needs and Current Practices of Public Health Nurses in the Republic of Ireland Who Provide Support to Breastfeeding Mothers: A Cross-Sectional Survey
(2023)Background: Breastfeeding continuation rates are low in Ireland. The Breastfeeding Observation and Assessment Tool (BOAT) was developed to assist public health nurses in assessing breastfeeding challenges; however, little ... -
The Person-centred Curriculum Framework: a universal curriculum framework for person-centred healthcare practitioner education
(2022)Background: Globally, humanising healthcare is a strategic response to a distinct need for person- centred approaches to practice. This movement has largely focused on the artefacts of healthcare practice, with an emergent ...