• The reported effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with intellectual disability and their carers: a scoping review 

  Doody, Owen; Keenan, Paul M. (Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Background: People with an intellectual disability are a vulnerable group during COVID-19 due to multi-morbidity, frailty, underlying conditions/health problems, social circumstances and limitations in understanding. This ...
• A Review of the involvement of partners and family members in psychosocial interventions for supporting women at risk of or experiencing perinatal depression and anxiety 

  Noonan, Maria; Jomeen, Julie; Doody, Owen (MDPI, 2021)

  A maternal experience of perinatal mental health conditions can have serious short- and long-term consequences for child development and family relationships. Women with perinatal depression and/or anxiety are primarily ...
• COVID-19 healthcare policies in Ireland: A rapid review of the initial pandemic response 

  O'Leary, Noreen; Kingston, Liz; Griffin, Anne; Morrissey, Ann-Marie; Noonan, Maria; Kelly, Dervla; Doody, Owen; Niranjan, Vikram; Gallagher, Aoife; O'Riordan, Clíona; Lynch, Aoife (SAGE, 2021)

  Aims: Healthcare systems urgently required policies to guide the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this review was to document the healthcare policies developed during the initial wave of widespread COVID-19 ...
• Generating insights into what matters to emergency nurses and family members when caring for older people with dementia: How to use generativity as a principle of Appreciative Inquiry. 

  Watkins, Sarah Anne; Dewar, Belinda; Graham, Margaret M.; Murphy, Fiona A.; Kennedy, Catriona; O'Reilly, Pauline (2020)

  Background: Participatory research approaches aim to hear the voices of those who give and receive services in order to co-create insights into future improvements in care experiences. Appreciative inquiry is one such ...
• Towards the development of a national patient transfer document between residential and acute care—A pilot study 

  Tuohy, Dympna; Fahy, Anne; O'Doherty, Jane; Meskell, Pauline; O'Reilly, Pauline; O'Brien, Brid; Murphy, Jill; Doody, Owen; Graham, Margaret M.; Barry, Louise; Kiely, Michelle; O'Keeffe, Jonathon; Dewing, Jan; Lang, Deirdre; Coffey, Alice (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)

  Background A lack of standardisation of documentation accompanying older people when transferring from residential to acute care is common and this may result in gaps in information and in care for older people. In Ireland, ...
• Developing a new health-related policy analysis tool: An action research cooperative inquiry approach 

  Casey, Mary; Rohde, Daniela; Brady, Anne-Marie; Fealy, Gerard M.; Hegarty, Josephine-Mary; Kennedy, Catriona; McNamara, Martin; Nicholson, Emma; O'Connell, Rhona; O'Connor, Laserina; O'Leary, Denise; O'Reilly, Pauline; Stokes, Diarmuid (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Aim To develop a tool for the analysis of nursing, midwifery and health‐related policy and professional guidance documents. Background Analysis tools can aid both policy evaluation and policy development. However, no ...
• Opening windows behind closed doors: reflections on working qualitatively during a pandemic 

  Meskell, Pauline; Houghton, Catherine; Biesty, Linda (SAGE, 2021)

  The contribution of qualitative evidence in epidemic and pandemic research has been articulated in previous editorials of this journal (Teti et al., 2020) and attention given to the pivotal role of qualitative methods in ...
• Mental health nurses experience of the introduction and practice of the safewards model: a qualitative descriptive study 

  Lee, Heather; Doody, Owen; Hennessy, Therese (BMC, 2021)

  Background: A lack of safety experienced by patients and staff in acute psychiatric units is a major concern and containment methods used to manage conflict have the potential to cause harm and upset to both staff and ...
• An exploration of midwives’ and obstetricians’ perceptions of risk in relation to care practices for low risk women and normal childbirth 

  Healy, Sandra (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This thesis explores how midwives’ and obstetricians’ perceptions of risk affect care practices for low-risk women and normal childbirth. Four academic papers are incorporated into the thesis. The research aims to ...
• Instruments for assessing nurses´ palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised care setting: an integrative review 

  Soikkeli‐Jalonen, Anu; Stolt, Minna; Hupli, Maija; Lemetti, Terhi; Kennedy, Catriona; Kydd, Angela; Haavisto, Elina (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Aims and objectives To examine the content and reported psychometric properties of instruments for assessing nurses’ palliative care knowledge and skills in specialised healthcare units. Background Knowledge of ...
• Reasonable adjustments for people with intellectual disability in acute care: a scoping review of the evidence 

  Moloney, Mairéad; Hennessy, Therese; Doody, Owen (BMJ Publishing, 2021)

  Objectives People with intellectual disability are vulnerable in terms of health service provision due to increased comorbidity, higher dependency and cognitive impairment. This review explored the literature to ascertain ...
• The paternal experience of fear of childbirth: An integrative review 

  Moran, Emma; Bradshaw, Carmel; Tuohy, Teresa; Noonan, Maria (MDPI, 2021)

  Background: It is estimated that approximately 13% of expectant fathers experience a pathological and debilitating fear of childbirth. Objective: The aim of this integrative review was to examine and synthesise the current ...
• Intercultural readiness of nursing students: An integrative review of evidence examining cultural competence educational interventions 

  O'Brien, Elizabeth-Mary; O'Donnell, Claire; Murphy, Jill; O'Brien, Brid; Markey, Kathleen (Elsevier, 2021)

  With the mounting reports of culturally insensitive care and the reported challenges nurses experience when caring for culturally diverse patients, developing the intercultural readiness of nursing students is a necessity. ...
• Cultivating ethical leadership in the recovery of COVID-19. 

  Markey, Kathleen; Ventura, Carla Aparecida Arena; Donnell, Claire O'; Doody, Owen (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  Aim To propose the necessity of fostering ethical leadership in the recovery of COVID‐19. Background Supporting physically and emotionally exhausted nurses, whilst ensuring quality standards of care delivery in the ...
• Exploring family member and nurse experiences of caring for an older person with advanced dementia in the Emergency Department (ED): an appreciative inquiry 

  Watkins, Sarah Anne (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Background: Admission to the Emergency Department (ED) can be stressful for older people with advanced dementia and their family members. Previous research has tended to emphasise the negatives and deficits in care. ...
• Aligning with the flow of control: A grounded theory study of choice and autonomy in decision making practices of people with intellectual disabilities 

  Carey, Eileen (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Purpose: Choice and autonomy are recognized as values facilitating genuine self determination. Subsequently greater understanding of these concepts in decision-making practices of adults with intellectual disabilities is ...
• Enhancing undergraduate nursing curricula to cultivate person-centred care for culturally and linguistically diverse older people 

  Markey, Kathleen; O'Brien, Brid; O'Donnell, Claire; Martin, Catherine; Murphy, Jill (Elsevier, 2020)

  With an ageing global community and widening socio-cultural diversity, nurse educators are increasingly challenged to align responsive undergraduate nursing curricula to rapidly changing healthcare environments. In ...
• Patients’, family members’ and healthcare practitioners’experiences of Stevens–Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: a qualitative descriptive study using emotional touchpoints 

  O'Reilly, Pauline; Whelan, B.; Ramsay, Bart; Kennedy, Catriona; Meskell, Pauline; Coffey, Alice; Wilson, Donna M.; Fortune, Dónal G.; Ryan, S. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)

  Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are devastating conditions resulting from a severe immune‐mediated mucocutaneous reaction which normally occurs as a result of medication.1 In the acute ...
• A QuESt for speed: rapid qualitative evidence syntheses as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Biesty, Linda M.; Meskell, Pauline; Glenton, Claire; Delaney, Hannah; Smalle, Mike; Booth, Andrew; Chan, Xin Hui S.; Devane, Declan; Houghton, Catherine (BMC, 2020)

  Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has created a sense of urgency in the research community in their bid to contribute to the evidence required for healthcare policy decisions. With such urgency, researchers experience ...
• Integrated health and social care in the community: A critical integrative review of the experiences and well-being needs of service users and their families 

  Henderson, Louise; Bain, Heather; Allan, Elaine; Kennedy, Catriona (Wiley, 2020)

  A need for people-centred health and social support systems is acknowledged as a global priority. Most nations face challenges in providing safe, effective, timely, affordable, coordinated care around the needs and ...

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