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Caroline Dalton

Senior Lecturer

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4396-2800
20072026

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Biography

Dr Caroline Dalton is a senior lecturer and researcher with clinical nursing experience in intellectual disability as a Registered Intellectual Disability Nurse (RNID) and Clinical Nurse Specialist in Behaviour Therapy. Dr Dalton holds a PhD in the area of end-of-life care and intellectual disability (2020), MSc in Learning Disabilities, BSc in Nursing Studies, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.  She is an active member of the JUSTICE Research cluster within the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Inclusion Health Interest Group, within the College of Medicine and Health, at UCC.  Dr Dalton has secured funding and contributed to multiple funded research projects focused on intellectual disability, dementia and providing quality end-of-life care for all. She currently contributes to “In -Touch” which is an Horizon Europe project focused on testing, through a cRCT in seven EU countries, a non-pharmacological palliative care intervention to improve comfort and the quality of life of people with advanced dementia living in care homes.

She represents the School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC on the All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care Education Network.  

 

 

Research Interests

  1.  Intellectual Disability
  2. Dementia
  3. Acquired Brain Injury
  4. End-of-Life Care
  5. Interdisciplinary Education.

 

 

Teaching Activities

Undergraduate Education:

  1. NU1050 The Foundations of Contemporary Intellectual Disability Nursing
  2. NU1066 Supporting Individuals with a Specific Intellectual Disability I
  3. NU3047 Supporting Individuals with a Specific Intellectual Disability II
  4. NU4068 Valuing People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families

Postgraduate Education 

Contributes to the Graduate Diploma in Public Health Nursing and to the MSc in Nursing and MSc Radiation Therapy at University College Cork.

  1. MH6014 Advanced Research Methods for Healthcare professionals 
  2. NU6005 Evidence Based Practice for Healthcare Professionals
  3. NU6073 Dissertation in Nursing
  4. NU6053 Professional, Ethical, and Legal Decision-making in Practice
  5. NU6041 Public Health Nursing: Principles and Professional Issues
  6. MH6016 Advance Care Planning
  7. MH6032 Effective Communication in Healthcare

 

 

Current PhD Students

Student

Thesis Title

 

Status   

Martina Miggiani

An evaluation of educational strategies for the acquisition of nursing students’ critical thinking skills and decision making skills

PhD

 

In progress

Mary O’Regan

A day in the life of… nurses’ professional and personal caring and responsibilities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

PhD

 

In progress

 

Recent PhD Students

Student

Thesis Title

 

Status   

Sinead Heffernan

To what extent are Irish Child and Mental Health Services engaged in Trauma Informed Practice? 

DN

 

Graduated

Edina Hanley

Communication Partners Experiences of Communicating with Adults with Severe/Profound Intellectual Disability through Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

PhD

 

Graduated

 

Research Grants

Project Description

Funding Body

Role

Years

Amount

Memory, place, stories and affect harnessing Cultural Heritage Resources in the context of Acquired Brain Injury.

Future Humanities Institute

Co-App

 

2024-2025

€3,000

Research into the Promotion of Nursing & Midwifery using the media of Film.

Nursing and Midwifery Borad of Ireland

Collabor-ator

 

2024- 2025

€60,969

Tailored Health Education -Deciding with Information and education together

 

Irish Research Council: New Foundations

Co-App

 

2024-2025

€11,997

Novel approaches to improving quality of life in people with palliative care needs in a non-cancer population.

EU commission

Team member

2024-2029

€7 million

Systematic review of the literature on the management of sexual safety in-patient mental health units, residential units for older people and residential units for people with intellectual disabilities

Heath Service Executive

Co-App

2023

€23,500

”Look, Feel, Tell': A breast awareness intervention for women with intellectual disability.

HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network

Co-App

2023

€12,500

 

PLACES: Pregnancy Loss in Workplaces: Informing Policy Makers on support mechanisms.

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Collabor-ator

2022-2023

€39,000

 

Identifying the Top 10 Research Priorities for Family Carers; The INTERFACE Project.

Irish Research Council; New Foundations

Co-researcher

2020-2021

€12,000

 

Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Impacts of Bereavement in Ireland

Department of Social Protection /IHF

Co-PI

2021-2022

€7,805

 

Evaluating Design and Dignity Programme.

Irish Hospice Foundation

Work Package Lead

2017-2019

€16,000

 

Ethical Decision Making and Dementia Guidelines.

Irish Hospice Foundation  

Work Package Lead

2014-2015

€6,000

On Barriers and facilitators to developing community supports as a basis for independent living for people with acquired brain injury.  

National Disability Authority

PI

2013-2014

€22,500

*RA

 

HSE Post Registration Nursing and Midwifery Education Group.

Health Service Executive

Co-researcher

2010

€14,000

 

UCC Futures (primary)

  • Future of Health

Other research affiliations

  • UCC Futures - Future Ageing and Brain Science

PhD Supervision

  • Available for PhD supervision

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  3. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  4. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  5. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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