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Congratulations to our Clinical Skills Technical Team from the Faculty of Medicine Health and Life Sciences MHLS Clinical Skills teaching centres who have been awarded awarded a LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) bronze award!
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Congratulations to Professor Donna Fitzsimons, Head of School, Nursing and Midwifery, who has been named Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to healthcare and education.
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The School of Nursing and Midwifery is delighted to announce that our staff have been acknowledged in the Queen’s Teaching Awards 2024!
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The ‘LGBTQ+ Health Network for Nursing and Midwifery Academics’ held its inaugural conference on Monday 20th May 2024.
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We were delighted to host the Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Mary McCarron from Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday 21st May 2024.
A new €7.5 million research project involving a team of academics from Queen’s University Belfast seeks to improve the care and quality of life for those with advanced dementia living in care homes.
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The School of Nursing and Midwifery are pleased to announce the Children's Cancer Unit Charity (CCUC) lnternational Nursing Programme 2024 is now open for applications!
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Congratulations to Professor Maria Lohan and Professor Mark Tomlinson who headline this week’s British Medical Journal editorial.
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Our Head of School, Professor Donna Fitzsimons and Director of Internationalisation, Professor Christine Brown Wilson along with Yi Feng (Head of Academic Partnerships), recently visited the College of Nursing at Zarqa University in Amman, Jordan.
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The School of Nursing and Midwifery are especially proud to have had five finalists in the Student Nursing Times Awards 2024.
Learning Disabilities Nursing conference celebrating the role of the Registered Nurse in Learning Disabilities (UK) and the Registered Nurse in Intellectual Disabilities (ROI).
On Monday 8th April, Well-being Ambassadors and Champions from the QUB School of Nursing and Midwifery hosted their ‘LEARN CPR, SAVE A LIFE’ session in the Students Union.
Yesterday we were joined by our current students, esteemed colleagues and special guests for our 2024 Celebration Event in The Whitla Hall.
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Congratulations to Dr Clare McVeigh who has received £95,000 in funding from the Burdett Trust for Nursing Grant Programme to conduct mindfulness research with people who have a diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
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The booking platform is now open for Positive Commitment 2024 Annual Conference.