March 2012: Peer Mentor Awards
Students accross the University were presented with certificates to mark their contribution as Peer Mentors. The certificates were presented by the Registrar, Professor Mark Rogers.
November 2011: Autumn Nursing Research Seminar Series
Title: Phenomenological Illuminations into Traumatic and Positive Childbirth
Facilitator: Dr. Gillian Thomson
Research Fellow, Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)
Date: 9th November 2011
Venue: 5:30pm - 7.30pm, Room B107, UCD Health Sciences Centre
All are welcome to attend.
RSVP: Yinyin.Sun@ucd.ie
September 2011: Distinguished Merit Award
Eileen Furlong, Coordinator of the MSc (Nursing) Advanced Practice, was the recipient of the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) Distinguished Merit Award 2011. The Distinguished Merit Award is presented every two years in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the art and science of cancer nursing within Europe. As recipient of the Distinguished Merit Award, Eileen presented an honorary lecture at the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress ECCO 16-ESMO 36-ESTRO 30, held in Stockholm, Sweden, from 23- 27 September 2011.
11th October 2011: Nursing Research Seminar Series
Professor Darryl Maybery speaks to UCD nursing & midwifery students at a seminar entitled: "Family focused practice with parental mental illness: Who should do what where and when?"
7th July 2011: Nursing Research Seminar Series
Presented by: Ms Liz Lees, Consultant Nurse, Acute Medicine and Clinical Dean, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT)
Title: Acute Medicine at Heartlands: Leading a programme of research to challenge and change clinical care
Date: 10:30am on this Thursday, 7th July 2011
Venue: Room C007, UCD Health Sciences Centre
All are welcome to attend. RSVP to: yinyin.sun@ucd.ie.
20th June 2011: Old copies of Irish Nurses’ Journal & Irish Nurses’ Union Gazette needed
The UCD Irish Centre for Nursing & Midwifery History, in partnership with the INMO and the Irish Virtual Research Library & Archive (IRVLA) is currently conducting the full digital curation and online cataloguing of the Irish Nurses’ Journal and Irish Nurses’ Union Gazette that is held by the INMO Library. When complete this digital collection will provide a valuable resource for the study of nursing and midwifery history in Ireland.
To create a complete collection from 1924 to 1970, we are looking for the following issues which are missing from the collection: Missing Journals
If you have any of the journals on this list and would like to temporarily deposit the journal with the UCD Irish Centre for Nursing & Midwifery History for the purposes of digitising, please contact Ruth Geraghty by email at ruth.geraghty@ucd.ie, or by phone at +353 (0)1 7166466.
The Centre will organise the collection and return the journals to the owner. The journals will be brought to University College Dublin for digital screening and the digital version will then be included in the completed collection. After digitising, the original journal will be returned to the owner.
June & July 2011: Upcoming Master Class Seminars
The UCD School of Nursing Midwifery & Health Systems, supported by the UCD Fellowships in Teaching and Academic Development, will host two master class seminars with Karl Maton, principal author of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and specialist in the sociologies of education, knowledge and culture at the University of Sydney. Both seminars will be held in the UCD Health Sciences Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4. Please click on the links below for full details.
Seminar 1 with Karl Maton - Thursday 30th June, 2pm:
‘Sociology of education beyond Bourdieu and Bernstein: Legitimation Code Theory’
Seminar 2 with Karl Maton - Friday 1st July, 11am:
‘The heartbeat of knowledge-building: How the semantic wave is fundamental to just about everything we do in education’
Admission is free but you must register before the 15th of June 2011.
Email: Ruth.Geraghty@ucd.ie Tel: (01) 716 6466
May 2011: Masterclass
Professor Maggie Nicol speaks to UCD nursing & midwifery students at a masterclass on "The importance of learning clinical skills in placement as well as in the clinical skills labs."
19th April 2011: Nursing Research Seminar Series
Professor Brendan McCormack speaks to UCD nursing & midwifery students at a seminar entitled: "Practice development and the co-production of knowledge: "Developing partnerships between practice and the university."
16th March 2011: Conference at UCD O'Reilly Hall
The Real Risk is Doing Nothing
Supporting nursing and midwifery students with a disability in clinical practice. Organized by AHEAD in association with the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems. Please view our Resource Guide below:
23rd April 2009: Masterclass
Professor Maggie Nicol speaks to UCD nursing & midwifery students at a masterclass entitled: "Clinical Skills in Healthcare Education."