Ms. Jacqueline Whelan

The project will be co-developed with members of ID Discipline Team.

Create an accessible curriculum that supports the engagement, representation and action of all students, including those from diverse worldviews, cultures, and identities, and with different learning strategies and abilities  Embed the principles of inclusion in all aspects of the academic cycle, across all courses, modules and programmes at Trinity College Dublin  Establish Trinity College Dublin as a place of belonging and respect for diversity, where all our students feel supported in achieving their learning goals  Equip students with the qualities, skills and behaviours encompassed by the Trinity Graduate attributes

The project purpose is aimed at developing the nurse's skills and competences in two areas in which they do not feel adequately prepared and which are becoming more prominent as a result of the Covid-19 crisis: Digital technologies in order to streamline many administrative processes, assist with onboarding and training, enhance productivity and reduce care variability as well as to learn how to deal with telemedicine; Identification, assessment and management of patients' religious and spiritual requests in the multicultural contemporary society. During the project, the partner consortium carries out four case-study analyses aimed at exploring nurses' competencies and skills in the digital field and in religious-spiritual assistance in healthcare. This leads to a working paper on the improvement of nursing curricula with respect to the inclusion of diverse religious/spiritual needs in healthcare, and how to accommodate these and other needs through digital enhancements to the health system. This is the starting point for the design of a blended Training Programme in "Digital Competences and Spiritual Assistance in Hospital Healthcare" consisting of an E-Learning course, face-to-face laboratory work and blended mobility activities, as well as an evaluation of the strength and areas of improvement of the proposed implementation.

Spirituality is about ascribing meaning to life's events, seeking support, connection and transcendence, which may involve religious belief for some. This term can transcend religious differences and provide an explanatory mechanism and support for people whether they subscribe to a religion or not. It also allows an explanatory conduit for cultural religious activities and rituals that humans have enjoyed over centuries. This is important to explore, as there is convincing evidence that the majority of people still ascribe to personal spiritual beliefs.

The aims of the EPICC Project are to; . Establish a sustainable network and partnerships where nursing educators can share experiences, research and resources related to spiritual care, to inform their teaching. . Enable nursing educators to acquire new knowledge/skills in the learning and teaching of personal, religious and spiritual aspects of person centred care. . Review how personal, religious and spiritual aspects of care are currently addressed in a sample of HEI's from across Europe. . Analyse current practice identifying factors and processes that enable or inhibit the teaching of these areas in nursing curricula. . Develop and test an innovative, dynamic and flexible Spiritual care Matrix for nurse education based upon international best practice and evidence which can be adopted by Higher Education Institutions (HEI) across Europe. The partners and their leads include Staffordshire University (Professor W McSherry), the University of South Wales (Dr Linda Ross), the University of Malta (Professor D Baldacchino, Dr Josephine Attard), VID Specialized University, Bergen, Norway (Professor T Giske), Christian University of Applied Sciences Viaa, Zwolle Netherlands (Professor R van Leeuwen), Diakonova University College Norway (Dr T Kleiven).