Paul Keenan
Professor
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Paul Keenan MSc, MA, BSc, PGCE, DipRS, DipHE NP, RNID, RNT. Paul is Assistant Professor - Intellectual Disability Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin. Since 1988 he has worked with people with an Intellectual Disability in UK, New Zealand and Ireland. Paul has an eighteen year history of academic teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as research and peer-reviewed publications. His research includes projects funded by Scope UK (Cerebral Palsy Society), Health Service Executive and National Disability Authority, Ireland. He recently Project Managed a two year HSE funded action research project to establish Person Centred Practices in Intellectual Disability Health Services in Leinster (2011-2013). He supervises postgraduate research students across Faculties. He is currently Co-Chairperson of Nursing Network in Intellectual Disability, Ireland (NNIDI). He was Head of Discipline - Intellectual Disability Nursing (2008-2012), Associate Director Undergraduate Nursing Programmes (2008), Associate Director Undergraduate Teaching and Learning (2008) Executive member of Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation (2012-2016) at the School of Nursing and Midwifery TCD. He is also a former member of the East of England Learning Disability Research Forum, Cambridge University and External Examiner Keele University (2002-2005).
Research Interest
Community Care; Disabilities; Health and Social Care Legislation and Policy; Intellectual Disabilities; Intellectual Disability Nursing
Publications
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Keenan P & Mac Dermott C, How nurses grieve for children who die in their care., Learning Disability Practice, 19, (3), 2016, p16 - 22
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Paul M Keenan and Ciara MacDermott, Spirituality and grief - the nurse's experience in caring for children with an Intellectual Disability who have died in their care., TCD Spirituality Interest Group, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin , 5th May, 2016, TCD Spirituality Interest Group
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GarcÃa Iriarte, E., O'Donoghue, M., Keenan, P., &l Feely, M., A Literature Review to Inform the Development of a National Framework for Person-Centred Planning in Disability Services, Dublin , Health Service Executive & National Disability Authority, 2017
