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Healthcare Innovation and Integration (Research theme) Professor Anne-Marie Brady

1.1 Chronic Illness

• Living and working with chronic illness: Returning to work following 'diagnosis' and/or 'exacerbation' of a chronic illness - A mixed method study. Dr Patricia Cronin
• Chronic illness and work affects - work-role functioning in people whith chronic illness in Ireland. Dr Patricia Cronin
• Living and working with chronic illness: 'disclosing' - A qualitative exploration. Dr Patricia Cronin
• What does it mean to be a part-time family carer? Dr Patricia Cronin

1.2 Oncology Nursing

• Patient-related health outcomes in cancer survivorship. Prof Anne-Marie Brady
• Quality of life in cancer survivors. Prof Anne-Marie Brady
• Investigation of young people (with cancer) role in deciding participation in clinical trials. Prof Imelda Coyne
• Investigation of young people (with cancer) experiences and needs for transition to adult oncology services. Prof Imelda Coyne

1.3 Cardiovascular Health and Wellbeing Dr Gabrielle McKee

• The effectiveness of a web-based intervention in reducing pre-hospital delay time in patients with acute coronary syndrome in the primary care and secondary care setting. Dr Gabrielle McKee
• An action research project to evaluate, develop and implement telephone follow-up as a mechanism for post-discharge support. Dr Sharon O'Donnell
• An action research project to evaluate, develop and implement a standardised patient discharge information protocol in a cardiac setting. Dr Mary Mooney & Dr Frances O'Brien
• An action research project to evaluate the problem of non-attendance at cardiac appointments and to develop and implement a strategy to address this. Dr Gabrielle McKee and Dr Mary Mooney
• An evaluation of the new Percutaneous Coronary intervention (PCI) programme. Dr Mary Mooney & Dr Frances O'Brien

1.4 Ageing

• A case study of the co-ordination of health and social care for people with dementia. Dr Patricia Cronin and Prof Anne-Marie Brady
• Dementia care. Dr Louise Daly
• Self-management in dementia care. Dr Louise Daly
• Self-management of co-morbidities in early to mid-stage dementia. Dr Louise Daly
• An exploration of ways in which community nurses support self-care for people living with dementia. Dr Louise Daly
• The support needs of staff working in dementia care. Dr Louise Daly
• Addressing cultural and linguistic diversity in cognitive screening protocols for older adult populations. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Developing the Resources and Life Strategy Management (REALISM) Intervention for care co-ordination in older adults. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Investigating the biological mechanisms underpinning age-related modifications to the vasculature. Dr Aileen Lynch
• Defining associations between cognition (global, executive and meta-cognition), self-regulation and goal attainment in neurological rehabilitation (this topic will be applicable to nursing, psychology, allied health and medically qualified candidates). Dr Claire Donnellan
• Assessing associations between physiological, cognitive and behavioural variables in older adults with neurodegenerative diseases. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Development and implementation of an integrated care pathway for the management of neurogenic dysphagia in gerontological care settings. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Exploring the association between sedentary behaviour and cardiac risk in the ageing population. Dr Gabrielle McKee
• Community dwelling in older adults' experiences and needs in relation to self-management support for multi-morbidity - potential project by Dr Louise Daly, Dr Gobnait Byrne & Dr Brian Keogh.

1.5 Stroke Care and Management

• Levels and scope of nurse specialist practice in the pathway of stroke care: An International Perspective. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Determining nursing competencies and scope of practice for chronic stroke management in residential care settings. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Development of a nurse-led clinical governance stroke programme in Ireland: NLCGSP. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Revisiting stroke clinical guidelines - nursing specific guidelines and contributions. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Identifying changes to the emotion-cognition interaction post stroke. Dr Claire Donnellan
• The Resources and Life Strategy Management (REALISM) intervention for stroke care. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Identifying prevalence, cause and risk for young stroke including antiphospholipid syndrome. Dr Claire Donnellan
• Underestimation for continuous blood pressure monitoring in the prevention of small cerebral vessel disease and cognitive impairment. Dr Claire Donnellan

2 Population and Community Health

2.1 Addiction Prof Catherine Comiskey

• Modelling the health, wellbeing and risk of addiction among the children of parents who use drugs
• Addiction and ageing
• Addiction and children
• Addiction and innovations
• Addiction and infectious disease
• Addiction and data modelling
• Infectious disease modelling, Covid-19, TB, HIV, Childhood diseases

2.2 Health Needs of Ethnic and Minority Groups Dr Gobnait Byrne

2.3 Community Nursing Dr Gobnait Byrne

3 Practice Innovation

3.1 Practice, Service and Role Development Prof Anne-Marie Brady

• Healthcare Systems
• Patient safety solutions in healthcare
• Innovation and models of healthcare delivery
• Quality improvement initiatives in healthcare
• Workforce development
• Regulation, guideline and standards in healthcare
• Evaluation and implementation of integrated care pathways

Implementation science, a study of the implementation of research in policy and or practice. Prof Catherine Comiskey

4 Digital solutions in integrated care Prof Anne-Marie Brady and Dr John Dinsmore

• Technological innovation in healthcare
• Technology and behavioural change

5 Spirituality Dr Fiona Timmins

• Identification of clinical indicators of spiritual distress in palliative care patients and nurses' competencies in the provision of spiritual care
• Developing and evaluating the impact of a web based spiritual care educational package for nurses
• Patients' understanding of spirituality and spiritual care
• An evaluation of the benefits of chaplaincy services in the Republic of Ireland
• The evaluation of nurse-led rheumatoid arthritis practice using nurse-sensitive outcomes (Dr Gabrielle McKee)

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