Staff
| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Sheerin, Fintan | |
| College Address | Nursing and Midwifery, D'Olier Street - School Of Nursing |
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| Main Department | School of Nursing & Midwifery | |
| College Title | Assistant Professor | |
| sheerinf@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 4072/3879 | |
| Biography | |
| Dr. Sheerin is a Lecturer in Intellectual Disability Nursing with extensive experience of nursing across a number of fields of practice. His PhD work brought together nursing informatics and intellectual disability nursing in an attempt to delineate the core interventional components of specialist intellectual disability nursing. He was Director of PG Teaching and Learning from 2007 to 2010 and significantly progressed graduate education in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. He is Vice-President of the Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes and runs its Secretariat. He has led the development of a national group focused on the human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities in Ireland, bringing together many local and national groups as well as many individuals with and without intellectual disabilities. Dr. Sheerin is actively involved in intellectual disability and equality-related research. Fintan is external examiner for the Advanced Diploma in Learning Disabilities and the Master in Learning Disabilities at University of Leeds, UK, and for the Bachelor in Science in Nursing in Intellectual Disability Nursing at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland. He was Acting Director of the National Institute for Intellectual Disability from 2012-2013. | |
| Professional Qualifications | |
| Qualification | Institution | Class of Degree | Title of Dissertation | Date Conferred |
| Doctor of Life and Health Sciences | University of Ulster | PhD | Employing Standardised Nursing Language to Define the Unique Interventions of Intellectual Disability Nursing | 2006 |
| Master of Arts | University of Dublin | Jure Officii | 02/07/2010 | |
| Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (Nursing) | University of Ulster | Commendation | 1999 | |
| Bachelor of Nursing Studies | University College Dublin | Hons 2.1 | 1996 | |
| Certificate in Natural Sciences | The Open University | Certificate | 2007 | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Member of the Working Group into Student Evaluation of Modules | 2009 |
| Secretary of the Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes | 2009 |
| Editor of the International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery | 2009 |
| Member of the Advisory Policy Committee of STTI Honor Society of Nursing. | 2008-2009 |
| Member of the Editorial Board of Spiritan Horizons - Journal of the Center for Spiritan Studies at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. | 2008 to date |
| Administrative Functions | |
| Details | Level | Date From | Date To |
| Chairperson of Professional Doctorate Group | 2008 | date | |
| Chairperson of Distance Learning Action Group | 02/2009 | date | |
| Member of the School International Affairs Committee | 2007 | date | |
| Director of Teaching and Learning (Postgraduate) | October 2007 | October 2010 | |
| Coordinator for the PhD Programme | January 2007 | October 2007 | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities | 2006 | date |
| British Institute of Learning Disabilities | 2006 | date |
| University of Ulster Developmental Disabilities Research Interest Group | 2000 | date |
| National Network for Learning Disability Nurses (UK). | 2006 | date |
| Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2006 | date |
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| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Elected Vice-President of Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes | 26th March 2011 |
| Co-opted Member of RDS Committee of Science and Technology | 01/03/2010 |
| Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society Research Grant | 2009 |
| All Ireland Nursing Research Fellowship | 1999 |
| Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Nursing Research Bursary | 2002 |
| More Awards and Honours>>> | |
| Education Details | |
| School/College | Date From | Date To |
| Open University | 2006 | date |
| Northern General Hospital, Sheffield | 2001 | 2001 |
| St. Mary's College, Rathmines, Dublin 6 | 1972 | 1982 |
| Holy Ghost Missionery College, Kimmage Manor, Dublin | 1982 | 1983 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| Irish | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| Employment Details | |
| Position Held | Job Description | Where | Date From | Date To |
| Lecturer | Lecturer in intellectual disability nursing, but with broad spectrum of lectures, particularly in intellectual disability nursing. Module leader for four modules. | University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin | 2006 | date |
| Acting Director | Responsible for the management of the NIID | National Institute for Intellectual Disability, Trinity College Dublin | April 2012 | April 2013 |
| Acting Academic Director | Responsible for academic oversight of the Certificate in Contemporary Living, an inclusive educational programme for people with intellectual disabilities. | National Institute for Intellectual Disability | February 2012 | April 2012 |
| Lecturer-Practitioner | Responsible for curriculum development, administration and lecturing on various higher diploma courses - urology, spinal cord injury, brain injury. Responsible for standardisation of all new graduate diploma modules under modularisation structure. Coordinated and ran graduate diplomas in paediatric nursing (critial care and emergency). | University College Dublin/Mater Misericordiae University Hospital | 2002 | 2006 |
| Clinical Course Coordinator | Responsible for development and running of higher diploma in nursing clinical practice (rehabilitation - spinal cord injury) | Mater Misericordiae University Hospital | 2001 | 2002 |
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| Description of Research Interests |
| Dr. Sheerin's principal area of research relates to the rights of people with intellectual disability |
| Research Interests | |||
| Assistive Technology (Handicapped) | Equality rights | Handicapped Device Development | Health Disparities |
| Health of Underserved Populations | Homosexual Female | Homosexual Male | Human Rights |
| Human rights | INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES | Intellectual Disability | Learning disabilities |
| Minorities and Disadvantaged | Women and disability |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Evaluation of Four Family-Focus Initiatiives Funded by Genio |
| Summary | |
| Funding Agency | Genio |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Evaluation |
| Date from | March 2012 |
| Date to | November 2012 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Nursing Documentation System |
| Summary | I am working with St. Francis Hospice, Raheny, to develop a new nursing documentation system. This is being undertaken using a Delphi/Focus Group approach. |
| Funding Agency | |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Nursing Practice Development |
| Date from | September 2011 |
| Date to | November 2012 |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | The Mental Health of People with Intellectual Disabilities on the Margins of Europe |
| Summary | This study is at proposal level and will involve an examination of the prevalence or mental health diagnoses and characteristics among populations of people with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities in six European countries -Ireland, Norway, Lithuania, Turkey, Malta and Portugal. It will also examine relationships between these prevalences and the characteristics of residential service provision in each setting. |
| Funding Agency | |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Exploratory correlational study |
| Date from | September 2010 |
| Date to | |
| Person Months | |
| Project title | Evaluation of a Person-Centred Practice Initiative in a Dublin intellectual disability service |
| Summary | This is a mixed methods study to evaluate the outcomes of a community-based development within an intellectual disability service. |
| Funding Agency | |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Evaluation study |
| Date from | June 2012 |
| Date to | March 2013 |
| Person Months | |
| More Research Projects>>> | |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Sheerin, F., Intellectual Disability - Responding to Health Inequity, British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 40, (4), 2012, p266 - 271 DOI |
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| Sheerin, F. Sermeus, W. Saranto, K. Henriques de Jesus, E., E-Health and Nursing: How Can E-Health Promote Patient Safety, Funchal, Madeira, ACENDIO, 2011 | |
| Sheerin, F., Identifying the Rights-Based Foci for Intellectual Disability Nursing, 8th Biennial International Conference of ACENDIO, Funchal, Madeira, 25-26 Match 2011, edited by F.Sheerin, W. Sermeus, K. Saranto and E. Henriques de Jesus , 2011 | |
| Begley, C., Murphy, K., Higgins, A., Elliott, N., Lalor, J., Sheerin, F., Coyne, I., Comiskey, C., Normand, C., Casey, C., Dowling, M., Devane, D., Cooney, A., Farrelly, F., Brennan, M, Meskell, P. and MacNeela, P., Evaluation of Clinical Nurse and Midwife Specialist and Advanced Nurse and Midwife Practitioner Roles in Ireland (SCAPE), Dublin, National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery, December, 2010 Url |
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| References |
| Name | Address | Telephone | Details | |
| Prof. Kaija Saranto | Professor in Health and Human Services Informatics Department of Health Policy and Management University of Kuopio P.O.Box 1627 FIN-70211 Kuopio Finland. | kaija.saranto@uku.fi | +358-17-162 212 | |
| Professor Dame June Clark | University of Wales Swansea | J.Clark@swansea.ac.uk | ||
| Professor Roy McConkey | Professor of Developmental Disabilities University of Ulster Jordanstown N. Ireland | roy.mcconkey@ulster.ac.uk |