Mr. Paul Horan

Summary

The Mid-Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Project will aim to recruit 100 farmers in the region to participate in developing a social support network via a training in action programme through this EIP Programme. Increasingly rural communities can be bereft of The "meitheal" of old, a community and social structure that is sadly mostly passed in many places. The need for this project is informed by on the ground outreach support workers from our operational group agencies and underpinned by current and continuously evolving research on the mental health, loneliness, and isolation of small holding farmers. Covid 19 augmented this isolation, where digital support was one of the only ways for single rural people were able to engage with the outside world.The objective of the project is to draw farmers together to learn new skills and share experiences (traditional building skills / willow making / hedge laying) and also to participate in restorative adventure activities that they would usually not have access to or possibly afford. This programme aims to engage the group at an open day, asking the individuals about their current social interactions, digital literacy, skills and compliance worries. Taking a data driven approach on their distance travelled during their participation of this "new social structure" in Mid Leinster at Castlecomer Discovery Park. Data will be used to iterate each programme customising it depending on needs, with each farmer working on their own personal progression. The dissemination of the aggregated data plus the ongoing monthly meet up will create both sustainability and added value to the project. This programme will allow for peer to peer interaction (Psychological support in terms of helping them recover from the stress) , digital training and change management methodologies to support new CAP complicated compliancy issues and reduce stress.

Funding Agency

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Programme

Funded through the European EIP Initiative

Project Type

Research and Intervention

Summary

Project Team, Mark Monahan, Liz Fahey McCarthy, Patricia Cronin,MaryAnne Murphy. The aim of the study is to undertake an analysis of the practice-based critical incidents identified by students in their reflective learning during their internship. The overall purpose is to gain insight into the areas of clinical practice that address or challenge students. This study aims to determine if there are identifiable patterns and themes that will provide direction for education and practice.

Funding Agency

None

Project Type

Qualitative descriptive analysis

Person Months

18

Summary

Registered Intellectual Disability Nurses (RNID), are key providers of services to people with an intellectual disability in Ireland. Changing demographics, renewed movement into community settings and newly emerging health care needs of people with intellectual disability imply that the role of the RNID is changing. These changes represent both opportunities and challenges for intellectual disability nursing and it is against this backdrop that the HSE has established a project to examine the current and future role of Registered Intellectual Disability nurses. This project is entitled: 'Shaping the Future of Intellectual Disability Nursing in Ireland'.

Funding Agency

HSE

Project Type

Research

Summary

Project Team: Griffiths C, Crofton C, Horan P, Keenan P, Fleming S & Sheerin F. This project used focus groups to survey the views of 67 self selected registered intellectual disability nurses in Ireland concerning the education of intellectual disability nurses. The respondents' views were subsequently forwarded to the Department of Health as a submission to to the Review of Undergraduate Nursing Programme.

Funding Agency

Nurse Managers' Association for Intellectual Disability in Ireland.

Project Type

Focus groups

Person Months

6

Summary

€68,000

Funding Agency

Nursing and Midwifery Development Unit Western Health Board

Person Months

12