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A new article on a rarely discussed topic has now been published by Anita Lonergan, St. Patrick's Mental Health Service, Dr Grainne Donohue, Research Fellow, TCPHI and Dr Fiona Timmins, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Entitled 'Mental Health Nurse experiences of delivering care to severely depressed adults receiving electroconvulsive therapy', it has been published in the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing which is an international journal for researchers and practitioners.

Congratulations to Yvonne Muldowney, TCPHI PhD student, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, who has been awarded a Government of Ireland postgraduate scholarship. This innovative work is focused on developing and integrating palliative care in the ICU setting in collaboration with Dr Eoin Tiernan, Consultant in Palliative Care SVH, under the supervision of Professor Anne-Marie Brady and Professor Peter May. The project title is 'The development and testing of a protocol to integrate Palliative Care into Irish ICUs: A National Strategy Project.'

Two school nurses at Stewarts Care Ltd., Amanda Shovlin and Michael Flynn along with TCPHI Research Fellow, Dr Julia Louw and School of Nursing & Midwifery Assistant Professor, Dr Carmel Doyle, have published a peer-reviewed article entitled 'Implementing blended feeding for children with intellectual disabilities in a school environment'. The article explores the implementation of blended feeding for gastrostomy button-fed children with intellectual disabilities in the special school environment in Ireland.

The School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin is seeking to recruit a research assistant to work on a project to develop a Risk Reduction Patient Decision Aid Toolkit for women with a BRCA+ gene mutation. This study is funded by the Irish Cancer Society and the post holder will be part of a collaborative research project between the School of Nursing & Midwifery and the Breast Unit, St. James's Hospital. The Principal Investigator of the study is Professor Anne-Marie Brady. The Closing date to apply is 12 noon (Irish Standard Time) on 20th September 2020. See the job description, Vacancy ID: 034624 on jobs.tcd.ie.