Dr. Sandra Fleming

Biography

Sandra Fleming RNID RPN RGN RCT RNT PhD MA (JO) MSc in Education and Training Management, Cert Ed (FE) is an Assistant Professor in Nursing and BSc Cur Senior Fresh Course Coordinator at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College, Dublin. She has extensive experience of teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate nurse education programmes and has held posts of responsibility such as Principal Tutor, Acting and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies (BSc Cur) and Course Co-Coordinator, Module Leader and External Examiner on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Sandra has extensive experience of research supervision of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has several publications and has presented at national and international conferences. Her primary research interests in intellectual disability include the mental health needs of the person with an intellectual disability, the older adult with intellectual disability and complex age-related conditions and end of life care for person with intellectual disability. Her research in nurse education has covered issues pertaining to students learning styles and approaches, the drug calculations skills of registered nurses, the experience of mature students on undergraduate programmes and evaluation of advanced nurse practitioner role.