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Professor Amanda Phelan

Professor in Ageing & Community Nursing (School of Nursing & Midwifery)

 aphelan1@tcd.ie

 3531896 3117/3117


Research Tags

  ABUSE   Discourse analysis   Health and Well-being   Health Care Policy   Missed care   OLDER ADULTS   OLDER PATIENTS   OLDER PEOPLE   Older person   Older Person Nursing   OLDER PERSONS   Safeguarding adults

Research Projects

 Person-centredness in Healthcare Curricula
 Elder abuse and Community Nurses
 Head lice in school children
 National Centre for the Protection of Older People
 Exploring nursing expertise in residential care for older people in Ireland

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Representations

Details Date
Member, Board of Directors, Safeguarding Ireland 2017
Member, Board of Directors, Third Age 2017
Member, Fitness to Practice Committee, NMBI 2014
Visiting Research Advisor, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. 2018
Member, Policy & Procedures Committee, Sage Advocacy 2016
Vice President, All Ireland Gerontological Nurses' Association. 2018
General Secretary, International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. 2018
Visiting Professor, Belmont College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 2016
Research Advisor, National Institute for the Care of the Elderly 2013
Member of Expert Advisory Group. Citizens' Assembly focused on the Opportunities and Challenges of an Ageing Society 2017

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
INMO 1989 current
All Ireland Gerontological Nurses' Association 1999 current
Phelan, A, The AgeWell programme as a public health intervention., Back to normal or forward to better: New horizons in healthcare, School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD, 7-9 March, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Savolainen, K, & Phelan, A. , Conducting qualitative interviews with older people in nursing homes during COVID-19 pandemic: reflections from practice. , Back to normal or Forward to better: New Horizons in Healthcare, School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD, 7-9 March , 2023, pp5 - 5, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Savolainen, K, & Phelan, A. , Human rights of older people in long-term care facilities during COVID-19 pandemic; A literature review using Foucauldian discourse analysis, Back to Normal or Forward to Better: New Horizons in Healthcare, School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD, 7-9 March, TCD conference, 2023, pp5 - 5, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Phelan, A, Adult safeguarding in Ireland: A critical review of context and gaps,, Journal of Adult Protection, 2023, Journal Article, IN_PRESS
Phelan A., Daly L., Coffey A., Kent S., Naughton C. Tuohy D. , Ryan A. and Byrne M., Experiences of Directors of Nursing in Residential Care of Older People During COVID-19, Age and Ageing, Annual and Scientific Meeting of the Irish Gerontological Society 2022: New Frontiers in Gerontology, Slieve Russell Cavan, 3rd-4th November, edited by Kenny R.A. Prof , 51, (S3), 2022, pp1 - 74, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  URL
Molloy U & Phelan A., Living, loving and letting go, navigating the relational within palliative care of older people in long term care facilities: an action research study, SNM Annual Conference, Virtual, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Molloy, U. & Phelan, A, Illuminating knowledge in practice. Using death reviews and an action research approach to reflect on experience and knowledge of palliative care of nurses and healthcare assistants caring for older people in residential care. , SNM Annual conference TCD, Virtual, 8-10 Mch, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Mikton, C. and Beaulieu, M. and Yon, Y. and Cadieux Genesse, J. and St-Martin, K. and Byrne, M. and Phelan, A. and Storey, J. and Rogers, M. and Campbell, F. and Ali, P. and Burnes, D. and Band-Winterstein, T. and Penhale, B. and Lachs, M. and Pillemer, K. and Estenson, L. and Marnfeldt, K. and Eustace-Cook, J. and Sutton, A. and Lacasse, F., PROTOCOL: Global elder abuse: A mega-map of systematic reviews on prevalence, consequences, risk and protective factors and interventions, Campbell Systematic Reviews, 18, (2), 2022, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Donnell, D., Dickson, C.A.W.., Phelan, A., Brown, D., Byrne, G., Cardiff, S., Cook, N.F., Dunleavy, S., Kmetec, S. & McCormack, B. , A mixed methods approach to the development of a Person-centred Curriculum Framework: surfacing person-centred principles and practices, International Practice Development Journal , 12, (Special Issue ), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
McCormack, B., Magown, R., O"Donnell, D., Phelan, A., Štiglic, G. & van Lieshout, F. , Developing a Person-centred Curriculum Framework: a whole-systems methodology, International Practice Development Journal, , 12, (2), 2022, p1-22-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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Phelan A, Human rights and Decision Making, Seminar on Assisted Decision Making Capacity Act, Clayton Hotel Swords, 2023, HSE, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Phelan, A., Evaluation of the Dublin Call and Care Service, Virtual, Dublin Care & Call, Feb, 2023, p1 - 41, Report, PUBLISHED
Phelan, A., Daly, L., Sheerin, F., D'Eath, M. & Savolainen, K. , An evaluation to examine the implementation of the recommendations related to education made by the Nursing Home Expert Panel Report, School of Nursing & Midwifery TCD, TCPHI, February, 2023, p1 - 77, Report, PUBLISHED
Phelan, A., Daly, L., Coffey, A., Kent, S., Naughton, C., Tuohy, D., Ryan, A. & Byrne, M., Navigating the storm: experiences of older person residential care home directors of nursing in COVID 19, European Geriatric Medicine, 13, EUGMS, London, 28-30 September 2022, 13, (1), 2022, ppS178 - S178, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Phelan, A, Conditions of possibility for person-centred curricula. , PCC Erasmus+ Conference, Edinburgh, 19th September, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Phelan A, Person-centredness in Healthcare Curricula, Erasmus + conference, Virtual, 20th May, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Savolainen, K. & Phelan, A. , Discursive positioning of rights of older people in long term care in Ireland- a Foucauldian archaeological review of literature , International Conference, School of Nursing & Midwifery, 8-10 March, 2022, pp5 - 5, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Phelan, A., Daly., L., Coffey, A., Kent, S. Naughton, C. Touhy D., Ryan, A. & Byrne M, ) Experiences of Directors of Nursing of residential care facilities for older people during COVID 19., SNM Annual Conference TCD, Virtual, 8-10 March, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Geoghegan, S., McNamara, G. & Phelan A. , Can introducing a set of practice review documents into community nursing improve nursing practice? , School of Nursing & Midwifery TCD Annual NM conference, Virtual, 8-10 March, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Phelan, A. & Sandmoe, A. , Framing public health responses in elder abuse: Applying evidence from Norwegian and Irish prevalence studies,, SNM Conference TCD, Virtual, 8-10 Mch, 2022, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

  

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Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

My primary area of research is focused on safeguarding older people and older person care. I have also undertaken work related to child welfare and protection and domestic violence. I am involved in research groups related to missed care, community nursing and person centred care.