Sinead Mehigan
Head of Department
Department: School of Health and Social Sciences
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0) 208 411 5884
- E-mail: s.mehigan@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
RG,N BA (Hons), PGDE, PhD
Research Interests
- Role development and perception
- Use of competence assessment
- Clinical assessment
- Flexible approaches to learning
- Use of VLEs in learning
- Anaesthetic nursing
Teaching Interests
- Acute nursing
- Anaesthetic nursing
- Perioperative
- Daysurgical nursing
- Developing evidence of learning in practice
- Mentorship
- Leadership
Biography
Curriculum/subject area
Initial and Acute Nursing Practice - NSA / NIP
Current work administrative and professional duties/roles etc
Head of Department of Initial and Acute Nursing Practice
Research
- Following award of monies from Small Research Grants Fund within HeBES in 1999, completed, along with colleague, research on the impact of a skills module introduced into the 1996 DipHE Nursing Programme. Report submitted to the School Committee. Presentation of findings in 2000.
- Presentations given on Study Days organised by the London Branch of the National Association of Theatre Nurses: June 1997 - Getting Staff Hooked on Theatres, June 1999 - Future Practitioners, and Role of the Nurse in Planning Care, June 2000.
- Part of working party in National Association of Theatre Nurses, developing guidelines on managing natural rubber latex allergies.
- Invitedto speak at two national study days organised by National Association of Theatre Nurses, in 2001/2002, on Latex Allergies
- Invited as speaker to Annual Congress of National Association of Theatre Nurses in October 2001 - spoke on Safeguarding the Future Through Education - Post-registration Nursing
- Paper delivered at Annual Congress of National Association of Theatre Nurses in October 2002, research fringe event - Historical Research.
- Paper accepted and delivered at European Operating Room Nursing Association conference in Crete, April 2003
- Invited to speak at National Association of Theatre Nurses Managers' Forum in May 2003 on post-registration nursing education in theatres.
- Paper delivered at European Operating Room Nursing Association conference in Dublin, April 2005
- Paper delivered at Nurse Education Today conference, in Cambridge, in September 2008 on flexible learning
- Small research grant from Whittington Hospital NHS Trust to evaluate competence tool in customer care in 2008
- Development fund from Linking London (pound;25 000) to set up and evaluate flexible approach to learning, in partnership with Whittington Hospital NHS Trust in 2008/9
Public output from research and scholarly activity
- Mehigan, S (2000) Future Practitioners - Advancing Nursing Practice in the Perioperative Setting British Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 10(3), 153-6
- National Association of Theatre Nurses (2000) Managing Natural Rubber Latex Allergies NATN, Harrogate
- Mehigan, S (2003) Role perception in a climate of change: The role of the anaesthetic nurse British Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 13(9) 381-385
- Mehigan, S (2004)Managing modern perioperative education British Journal of Perioperative Nursing 14(12) December 2004, 535-542
- Mehigan, S. and Moore, T. Pain and Sedation. In Bench, S. and Brown, K. (in press) Learning from Critical Care Nursing Practice Blackwell Scientific, London
