TIME / EVENT / VENUE
07.45-08.55 / Registration, Tea/Coffee, Poster & Exhibition Viewing / Examination Hall
1st Floor
09.00-9.10 / Welcome Address by Dr. Áine Colgan, Dean, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, RCSI / Cheyne
Ground Floor
09.10-09.55 / Keynote Address: Prof. Paul TruemanProfessor of Health Economics, Health Economics Research Group, BrunelUniversity, York, UK
Title:Promoting cost effective patient centred care
Chair: Dr. Áine Colgan / Cheyne
Ground Floor
10.00-10.45 / Plenary Address: Dr. Patricia Grocott, Reader in Palliative Wound Care, King’s College London, UK
Title:Multidisciplinary team working in clinical research
Chair: Dr. Áine Colgan / Cheyne
Ground Floor
10.45-11.10 / Tea/Coffee, Poster & Exhibition Viewing / Examination Hall
1st Floor
VENUE / Cheyne
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 1
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 2
Ground Floor / Nightingale
2ndFloor / Tutorial Room 4
Ground Floor / Newman
2ndFloor
CHAIR / Deirdre Hyland / Seamus Cowman / Catherine Clune Mulvaney / Mary O’Neill / Therese Meehan / Nicola Clarke
STRAND / Integrated Care / Mental Health / Education & Training / Patient Safety / Quality & Practice Development / Midwifery
11.15-11.30 / Congruence among practice nurses and GPson the role and future development of practice nursingNicola Cornally, Ireland / Nursing practice in a therapeutic community: some lessons from historyJohn Adams, UK / An exploration of nurse’s attitudes to spirituality within an acute hospital setting Fiona Timmins, Ireland / Examining newspaper reports of care in an Irish nursing home: A discursive analysis
Amanda Phelan, Ireland / Changing face of the admission and discharge protocol, for elective coronary angiography patients Catherine Mary Abou-Zaid, Bahrain / Women's experience of control in childbirth
Joanne O'Hare, Ireland
11.30-11.45 / Age related effects of perception of readiness for discharge on use of community services
Alice Coffey,
Ireland / Beyond person-centred...to person sourced
Orla McAlinden, Northern Ireland / Using illness narratives to illustrate the concept of person- centred care
Mary McDaniel,
Northern Ireland / C.R.E.A.T.E. healthy work environments Judith Walters, USA / Improving patient safety through the development of a student code of ethicsNancy Wilk, USA / An exploration of Irish mothers experience of persisting with breastfeeding a phenomenological study Teresa Meaney
Ireland
11.45-12.00 / Thin and thick discourses: how they order and maintain equilibrium in health care systems Catherine O’Neill, Ireland / Standards based audit of a community based acute day hospitalTimmy Frawley, Ireland / Mechanisms linking nurses' education and patient outcomes Dianne Cooney Miner, USA / Exploring a model of nursing care delivery: A process of partnershipCath Hall & Lisa Matricciani, Australia / Quality & safety in nursing education: assessing unit readiness to be a dedicated education unit Karen Parker, USA / Women's needs for information during childbirth using voice-centred relational analysis
Denise O'Brien, Ireland
12.00-12.15 / A pilot study exploring the knowledge of older adults about their weight status (BMI)
Teresa Wills, Ireland / Person-centerd care in an acute comprehensive psychiatric emergency
program Judith Walters,USA / Undergraduate Arab nursing students simulation training (SST) using maternity simulaids: an overview of obstetric skill performance assessment by OSCE, skill competency and student satisfactionSavithri Raman, Oman / Nurses’ knowledge of best practice guidelines in preventing VAP in an acute care setting
Chithra Boominathan, Ireland / Risk and resilience - the relationship between midwives and Irish travellers
Pete Goward, UK / Gestational diabetes – developing group education
Mary Coffey & Yvonne Moloney, Ireland
12.15-12.45 / Diagnostic decision making - differences and similarities between advanced nurse practitioners and general practitioners in an out of hours healthcare setting Maureen Duff, UK / Transcendent diagnostic categories of mental illness in Ireland, 1800 to 2010DamienBrennan, Ireland / Is there a Difference in Health Related Quality of Life between Family Screened Alpha One Antitrypsin Deficiency Individuals and Symptomatically Screened Individuals?Catherine O’Connor, Ireland / Implementation of the careful nursing model and standardised nursing languageSinead Murphy, Ireland / Governance requirements for effective, ehealth, telecare and telehealth delivery
Patricia Hall, Ireland
12.45 – 13.30 / Lunch, Poster & Exhibition Viewing / Examination Hall
TIME / EVENT / VENUE
13.30 – 14.15 / Plenary Speaker: Ms. Janet Pettit, California, USA
Title: State of the science: PICCs and PIVs
Chair: Ms. Edna Woolhead / Cheyne
Ground Floor
14.15 - 14.45 / Guest Lecture: Prof. Roger Watson, Sheffield, UK
Title:How not to get published
Chair:Prof. Seamus Cowman / Cheyne
Ground Floor
VENUE / Cheyne
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 1
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 2
Ground Floor / Nightingale
2ndFloor / Tutorial Room 4
Ground Floor
CHAIR / Edna Woolhead / Julie Jordan O’Brien / Eileen Maher / Catherine O’Neill / Marie Carney
STRAND / Neonatal & Paediatrics / Wound Management & Tissue Viability / Oncological / Palliative Care / Patient Safety / Chronic Disease Management
14.50-15.05 / Implementing sedation and analgesia guidelines in an Irish paediatric intensive care unit
Claire Magner, Ireland / The prevalence of wounds among older persons in Flemish hospitals
Luc Gryson
Belgium / End of life decisions and advance care directives in motor neurone disease
Bernie Corr, Ireland / Measuring the nursing contribution to patient care: capturing nursing sensitive outcome measures Philippa Ryan Withero & Geraldine Hiney, Ireland / Transition of young people with cystic fibrosis and diabetes mellitus from child to adult healthcareThelma Begley, Ireland
15.05-15.20 / Medication administration practices of children’s nurses
Maryanne Murphy, Ireland / A survey of undergraduate nurse education in Europe
Zena Moore, Ireland / Patient satisfaction of nurse-led nipple and areola reconstitution service Mary Murray, Ireland / Does the wearing of tabards during drug rounds reduce the number of interruptions?
Morag Mitchell, UK / DNP Nurse-managed hepatitis C clinic in a rural areaVirginia P. Krebbeks, USA
15.20-15.35 / An investigation into the technology used by children with complex needs at home in Ireland
Honor Nicholl, Ireland / Variation in clinical practice: A survey of CVC care and maintenance in haemodialysis patients Margaret McCann, Ireland / Palliative care: developing an oral health assessment tool for children and young people
Carol Chamley, UK / Modifying the Scottish early warning score for use within community hospitalsEunice Chisholm, UK / Help-seeking behaviour: a concept analysis
Nicola Cornally, Ireland
15.35-15.50 / School-age children's experiences in the context of maternal breast cancer
Eileen Furlong, Ireland / The efficacy of wound care organisations in dissemination of clinical guidelines - a national surveyGeorgina Gethin, Ireland / An exploration of the impact of chemotherapy induced hair loss on patients with primary cancer Sinead Power, Ireland / A retrospective review of ward-based epidural analgesiaCarmel Daly, Ireland / Stroke nursing: looking to the futureMary O'Neill, Ireland
VENUE / Cheyne
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 1
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 2
Ground Floor / Nightingale
2ndFloor
CHAIR / Patricia O’Hara / Bernie Kerin / Mary McMahon / Noreen Keane
STRAND / Neonatal & Paediatrics / Emergency Nursing / Oncological / Palliative Care / Patient Safety
15.55-16.10 / Reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia in the neonatal intensive care unitKirtley Ceballos, USA / Emergency nurses: procedures performed, competence in practice and educational requirementsGeraldine McCarthy, Ireland / Sexuality and the gynaecological cancer journey: a qualitative perspectiveVicki Cleary, Ireland / Influence of a patient safety initiative on perinatal outcomes and safety & teamwork climate
Bonnie Walden & Charlene Smith, USA
16.10-16.25 / Universal MRSA screening results in sustainable eradication of hospital-associated MRSA in the NICUNora Scott, USA / Risk taking behaviour, substance use and interpersonal conflict in young people presenting to the ED Brigid Arkins, Ireland / Evaluation of the role of the CNS in cancer careGeorgina Gethin, Ireland / Nurse's knowledge on evidence-based guidelines for preventing central venous catheter infection
Lucy Christina Zacharias, Ireland
VENUE / Cheyne
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 1
Ground Floor / Tutorial Room 2
Ground Floor / Nightingale
2ndFloor
CHAIR / Patricia O’Hara / Bernie Kerin / Mary McMahon / Noreen Keane
STRAND / Neonatal & Paediatrics / Emergency Nursing / Oncological / Palliative Care / Patient Safety
16.25-16.40 / Ongoing improvements in glycaemic control in children and adolescents using CSII
Dympna Devenney, Ireland / Knowledge and attitudes of primary care physicians toward the nurse practitioners role before and after an educational intervention in primary care settings in kingdom of Bahrain
Husain Nasaif, Bahrain / Promoting patient centered care- the role of the palliative care advanced nurse practitioner
Geraldine Tracey, Ireland / Standards Based Audit Of A Community Based Acute DayHospitalAndrew Rideout, UK
16.40-16.55 / The practical challenges of investigating vulnerable children in Ireland: a researchers perspectiveMary O'Rourke, Ireland / Ireland’s first stand alone minor injuries unit Monaghan the first three monthsMargaret Mallen, Ireland / Presence of symptoms and quality of life in women awaiting breast cancer surgery
Suzanne Denieffe, Ireland / The Development and Evaluation of a Strategy to Enhance Diabetic Outpatient Clinic Attendance in Thailand
Soontareeporn Thongsai, UK
TIME / EVENT / VENUE
17.00–17.20 / Closing Plenary: Ms. Catherine O’Neill
Title: Good Patient Care in Times of Austerity
Chair:Ms. Catherine Clune Mulvaney / Cheyne
Ground Floor
17.20 / Awards Ceremony
Chair: Ms. Edna Woolhead & Prof. Seamus Cowman
  • St. Luke’s Institute of Cancer Research Awards
  • Chiesi Research Award
  • Nutricia Research Award
  • Faculty of Nursing Research Bursaries
  • Pfizer Neonatal Awards
/ Cheyne
Ground Floor