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      Dr Sinead Mehigan

      ROLE: Head of Dept Adult Child & Midwifery
      SCHOOL: Health & Education
      DEPARTMENT: Adult Child & Midwifery
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5884
      EMAIL: S.Mehigan@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        RGN BA (Hons), PGDE, PhD

        Joined the University in 1995, as Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Advanced Diploma in Anaesthetic Nursing.

        Between 1999 - 2005 was Curriculum Leader for a number of areas, including Nursing, Specialist and Advanced Practice, Interprofessional Health and Initial Nursing areas.

        Between 2005 - 7 held post as Principal Lecturer and Curriculum Leader, Nursing – Specialist and Advanced Practice, Middlesex University, and joint appointment as Lead Nurse for Education and Development at Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

        Head of Department of Initial and Acute Nursing Practice between 2007 - 2012, and of Department of Adult, Child and Midwifery since 2012


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        • Acute nursing
        • Anaesthetic nursing
        • Perioperative nursing
        • Day surgical nursing
        • Developing evidence of learning in practice
        • Mentorship / preceptorship
        • Leadership
        • Care planning
        • Delivery of preceptorship programme for Whittington Health staff over 2011
        • Development of distance learning packs on nutrition for Whittington Health
        • Development of / delivery of series of sessions on care planning for Whittington Health from October 2011

        Mehigan, S (2011) Pain. In Bench, S and Brown, K Learning from Critical Care Nursing Practice Blackwell Scientific, London

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        • Role development and perception
        • Use of competence assessment
        • Clinical assessment
        • Flexible approaches to learning
        • Use of VLEs in learning
        • Anaesthetic nursing
        • Evaluation of impact of education in practice

        Conference presentations

        • National Association of Theatre Nurses, in 2001/2002, - Latex Allergies
        • Annual Congress of National Association of Theatre Nurses in October 2001 - Safeguarding the Future Through Education - Post-registration Nursing
        • Annual Congress of National Association of Theatre Nurses in October 2002, research fringe event - Historical Research.
        • European Operating Room Nursing Association conference in Crete, April 2003 - Role perception in a Climate of Change
        • National Association of Theatre Nurses Managers' Forum in May 2003 - Post-registration nursing education in theatres.
        • European Operating Room Nursing Association conference in Dublin, April 2006 - The caring role of the anaesthetic nurse
        • Paper delivered at Nurse Education Today conference, in Cambridge, in September 2008 on flexible learning

        Publication Feed

        Academic practice partnerships

        Mehigan, Sinead and Pisaneschi, Laura and McDermott, Justin (2019) Academic practice partnerships. In: Facilitating Learning in Practice. Morley, Dawn and Wilson, Kathy and Holbery, Natalie , eds. Routledge, pp. 44-55. ISBN 9781138311763

        BREAST-Q measurement of the patient perspective in oncoplastic breast surgery: a systematic review

        Liu, Liang Q. and Branford, Olivier A. and Mehigan, Sinead (2018) BREAST-Q measurement of the patient perspective in oncoplastic breast surgery: a systematic review. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery-Global Open , 6 (8). e1904. ISSN 2169-7574

        An evaluation of the Islington community education provider network super hub

        Corbett, Kevin and Odelius, Anki and Traynor, Michael and Mehigan, Sinead (2016) An evaluation of the Islington community education provider network super hub. In: Supporting Learning in Primary Care/General Practice, 26 Jul 2016, Grand Connaught Rooms, 61-65 Queen's Street London WC2B 5DA.

        The effects of surgical hand scrubbing protocols on skin integrity and surgical site infection rates: a systematic review

        Liu, Liang Q. and Mehigan, Sinead (2016) The effects of surgical hand scrubbing protocols on skin integrity and surgical site infection rates: a systematic review. AORN journal , 103 (5). pp. 468-482. ISSN 0001-2092

        Evaluating the roll out of the Care Certificate in a local health area

        Traynor, Michael and Corbett, Kevin and Mehigan, Sinead (2016) Evaluating the roll out of the Care Certificate in a local health area. In: Building a Vision for Integrated Education: showcasing innovation in education, learning and training at Whittington Health., 23 Mar 2016, Whittington Health Education Centre, Whittington Health, Magdala Avenue London N19 5NF, London, U.K..

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        Recent research activities

        • Small research grant from Whittington Hospital NHS Trust (£4000) to evaluate competence tool in customer care in 2008
        • Development fund from Linking London (£25 000) to set up and evaluate flexible approach to learning, in partnership with Whittington Hospital NHS Trust (2008-9)
        • Small research grant from Whittington Hospital NHS Trust (£6000) to evaluate impact of Coaching Programme on practice in 2010
        • Small project monies (£8000) from Whittington Health to evaluate impact of Coaching Programme for Partnership on practice in 2011

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        • Member of review panel for Journal of Advanced Perioperative Nursing, 2002 - 2008
        • External Examiner for University of Surrey – 2008 – 2011
        • Board member of transition LETB board for North Central and North East London March - September 2012

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