Meet our Research Nurses

Ashitha Bhaskaran

Clinical Placement Coordinator

  • Hospital: St. James's Hospital
  • Current role: Clinical Placement Coordinator
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: The Experience of Internship Nursing Students during the COVID pandemic in a large teaching hospital in Ireland: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

Ann Connolly

Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Childhood Epilepsy

  • Hospital: Children's Health Ireland at Tallaght
  • Current role: Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner for Childhood Epilepsy
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: The efficacy and tolerability of Levetiracetam as a first line monotherapy in childhood epilepsy

Mary Doyle

Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)

  • Hospital/Service provider: Peamount Healthcare
  • Current role: Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: Exploring experiences of the nursing team working in a residential care facility for older adults during COVID

Archana D'Souza

Education and Training Co-ordinator, Mercers Institute of Successful Ageing

  • Hospital/Service provider: St. James's Hospital
  • Current role: Education and Training Co-ordinator, Mercers Institute of Successful Ageing
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: The experience of internship nursing students during the COVID pandemic in a large teaching hospital in Ireland: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

Nicola Farrand

cANP Emergency Cardiology

  • Hospital: St. James's Hospital
  • Current role: cANP Emergency Cardiology
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: Clinical presentation of patients with COVID-19 with cardiovascular disease

Aoife Farrington

Clinical Placement Coordinator

  • Hospital: St. Patrick's Mental Health Services
  • Current role: Clinical Placement Coordinator
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: Student Mental Health Nurse experiences of working with adolescents with eating disorders.

Helen Fitzgerald

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Paediatric Diabetes

  • Hospital: Tallaght University Hospital
  • Current role: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Paediatric Diabetes
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: Evaluating the effectiveness of a hospital based structured education programme for School staff caring for children with Type 1 Diabetes.

Marie King

Student Allocations Liaison Nurse

  • Hospital: St. Patrick's Mental Health Services
  • Current role: Student Allocations Liaison Nurse
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: An evaluation of Psychiatric Nurse confidence in recognising a physically deteriorating patient

Shane Kirwan

Nurse Practice Development Coordinator

  • Hospital: St. Patrick's Mental Health Services
  • Current role: Nurse Practice Development Coordinator
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: Nurse Leadership in Implementing Digital Health Change in an Irish Mental Health Service

Martina Leigh

Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)

  • Hospital/Service provider: Muiríosa Foundation
  • Current role: Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project:

Deirdre McGuone

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Emergency Cardiology

  • Hospital: St. James's Hospital
  • Current role: Advanced Nurse Practitioner Emergency Cardiology
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: Clinical presentation of patients with COVID and cardiovascular disease.

Julie O'Grady

Director, Learning and Development (Interim)

  • Hospital: St. James's Hospital
  • Current role: Director, Learning and Development (Interim)
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: Nutrition, Nursing Metrics

Ambily Velayudhan

Clinical Placement Coordinator

  • Hospital/Service provider: St. James's Hospital
  • Current role: Clinical Placement Coordinator
  • Name of TCPHI Research Project: The experiences of internship students during COVID 19 pandemic in a large teaching hospital in Ireland: A Qualitative Descriptive Study