| Position Held |
Job Description |
Where |
Date From |
Date To |
| Research Fellow |
Research assistant on the 'Open Window' Study, being conducted at St. James's Hospital. |
Trinity College Dublin/St. James' Hospital |
November 2004 |
October 2008 |
| Lecturer, Course co-ordinator MSc in Nursing and MSc in Midwifery |
Key aspects of this role include timetabling, student selection, chairing course committee meetings, organizing exam boards and curriculum development. |
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin |
August 2002 |
October 2004 |
| Lecturer, Joint Course co-ordinator Post-graduate Specialist Courses |
These include the Post Graduate Diploma in Specialist Nursing, Oncological Nursing and Sick Children’s Nursing (February 2002 – August 2002). This role include timetabling, student selection, chairing course committee meetings, organizing exam boards/courts and curriculum development |
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin |
February 2002 |
July 2002 |
| Project title |
'Open Window' Study - An evaluation of a novel art intervention in the treatment of patients undergoing stem cell transplantation |
| Summary |
Over the past 25 years in health care, art has become increasingly recognised as a key ingredient in the planning and development of patient-centered and healing environments. This is not a new idea (Clayton and Opotow 2003; Crow et al 2002)and even today art, whose value in health lies in its ability to comfort, console and sustain (Wikoff 2004) is thought to reduce stress and anxiety levels, promote well-being and a positive mood in patients [Clayton and Opotow 2003; Staricoff et al 2001).
Open Window’ is a novel art intervention in the treatment of patients with haematological malignancies and has been available on a pilot basis in two rooms only on the Denis Burkitt Ward for the past year and a half. Patients on this ward are cared for in protective isolation in single, air conditioned en suite rooms and visiting is restricted. The rooms are clinical in appearance and views from the windows are restricted. ‘Open Window’ was developed specifically as an art intervention in response to the patients’ environment and also because it may help patients adjust positively to their experience of having a life threatening illness during and after stem cell transplantation. Art specifically is thought to help patients modify or develop a new sense of self and self-esteem which is adversely affected by having a life threatening illness.
Aims and Objectives
•To measure the effect of ‘Open Window’ on patients’ psychological well-being
•To explore patient perceptions of how ‘Open Window’ influenced their experience of having a stem cell transplant.
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| Funding Agency |
Irish Cancer Society |
| Programme |
Cancer Research Project and PhD Scholarship |
| Type of Project |
Patient Care and Survivorship |
| Date from |
November 2004 |
| Date to |
November 2007 |
| Person Months |
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| Project title |
• Developing technological based educational, motivational and health promoting material to support self management in patients with chronic illnesses. |
| Summary |
The purpose of this study using behaviour change principles is to develop technological based educational, motivational and health promoting material to support self management in patients with chronic illnesses.
Objectives:
• To explore care needs, sources of support & experiences of patients & carers living at home with chronic illness
• To assess patient knowledge, ability and readiness to self manage their care needs in relation to chronic illness
• To develop educational, motivational and health promoting material for use by patients and carers for generic and specific chronic illnesses
• To optimise the self care management potential for patients with chronic illness
An Action research design is used and it is a process by which behavioural science knowledge is integrated with scientific knowledge and applied to solve real organisational problems' (Shani and Passmore, 1985). In this study it is proposed that an initial reflective process will enable user/carer support needs to be identified. Using principles of behavioural change, the research team will then develop new resource material, or enhance existing material, to address the specific self management needs of this group. To complete the action research cycle, participants of the patient/carer group will be invited evaluate the developed material.
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| Funding Agency |
TRIL(Technology Research for Independent Living) in partnership with Intel Ireland |
| Programme |
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| Type of Project |
Self Management Initiative for people with Chronic Illness |
| Date from |
June 2011 |
| Date to |
March 2012 |
| Person Months |
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| McCabe C, Neill F, Granville G, Grace S. , Evaluation of an art in health care elective module - A nurse education initiative, Nurse Education and Practice, (DoI: 10.1016/j.nepr.), 2012 |
| McCabe C, Roche D, Hegarty F. & McCann S., 'Open window': a randomized trial of the effect of new media art using a virtual window on quality of life in patients' experiencing stem cell transplantation, , Psycho-Oncology, DOI: 10.1002/pon.209, 2011 |
| Communication and Conflict Resolution in, editor(s)Anne Marie Brady , Leadership and Management in the Irish Health Care System, Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2010, pp169 - 184, [Catherine McCabe] |
