Thelma Begley
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Ms. Thelma Begley has significant teaching experience in the development and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programmes with specialist expertise in children's nursing. She is currently module leader on undergraduate, postgraduate and MSc Children's nursing programmes and Head of the Children's Nursing Discipline within the School. Her clinical experience includes children and young people's medical and surgical nursing and adult and children's orthopaedic nursing. Her research interest lies in three areas namely children's nursing, nurse education and adolescence, specifically sexual health in adolescence and her current PhD in this subject area. Thelma's conference presentations and publications are related to these areas of research interest.
Research Interest
Her research based commitments also include supervision of research students. She was former Course Coordinator for the Higher Diploma in Children's Nursing.
Publications
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Higgins A; Downes C; Daly L; Begley T; DeVries J; Sharek D, Developing and Testing the SH-PET Tool to Measure the Impacts of the Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion, National Institute of Health Sciences Research Bulletin, 7, (4), 2017, p54- Journal Article, 2017
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Timmins, F., Murphy, M., Begley, T., Neill, F. and Sheaf, G., A documentary analysis of the guidance provided by fundamental nursing textbooks- what does it tell us about spiritual care delivery and spiritual care competence for contemporary nursing practic, Fourth International Conference of the British Association for the Study of Spirituality Can spirituality transform our world? New frontiers in understanding and exploring contemporary spiritualties , Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester, UK., 23 May -26 May , 2016
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Whelan, J., Begley, T. and Timmins, F. , Foundations of Nursing- Neophyte Values of Nursing and Professional Identity. , Nursing and Midwifery Values in Practice., Conference Centre, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, Tues 16th May 2017, (NMVP4/2017), 2017, pp16 - 16 Poster, 2017
