The DELAROSE project: Piloting a pan-European educational programme to support health and social care workers to manage their work-related stress

Cathal Ryan

Waterford Institute of Technology

Mr Cathal Ryan is a PhD Candidate at the School of Health Science, WIT, and is funded by the WIT Scholarship Programme. He holds degrees from NUI Galway (MSc Health Psychology) and NUI Maynooth (B.A. (Hons) Psychology). Cathal has previously been engaged as a Research Assistant to the DELAROSE project in WIT, which was completed in October 2015, while he has also worked as an Assistant Research Psychologist with the NEIL Memory Research Unit in Trinity College Dublin.Cathal is currently engaged in the SuRE project (Sustaining Resilience in Employment) which investigates work-related stress and enhancing resilience in health and social workers through online digital platforms. The project is supervised by Professor John S. G. Wells (Head of School of Health Sciences, WIT) and Dr Michael Bergin (Department of Nursing & Health Care, WIT).

John Wells

Waterford Institute of Technology

Professor John Wells was appointed Head of School of Health Science in WIT in 2012. He holds degrees from King's College London (PhD in Nursing); London Guildhall University/ London Metropolitan University (MSc in Care Policy and Management); Manchester University (BA Hons in History) and Southbank University (Post Graduate Diploma in Education).Professor Wells trained as a mental health nurse at St George's Hospital School of Nursing at Springfield Hospital in London, and has held a number of clinical and management positions in mental health services in the U.K. He took up his first academic appointment in 1991 as a lecturer in mental health nursing at the Maudsley Hospital School of Nursing. This was followed in 1993 with an appointment as a lecturer in nursing at King's College, University of London. Professor Wells moved to Ireland in 1998 to take up a lectureship in Psychiatric Nursing based in WIT.

Michael Bergin

Waterford Institute of Technology

Dr Michael Bergin is a lecturer at the Department of Nursing & Healthcare, WIT since 2002. He holds degrees from the University of Lincoln, UK (PhD in Nursing); University College Dublin (MMedSc) and University College Cork (BSc Hons in Nursing and Diploma in Professional Studies).Dr Bergin trained as a psychiatric nurse at Waterford Regional School of Psychiatric Nursing while clinically based at St. Canices Hospital, Kilkenny. He also trained as a general nurse having undertaken his postgraduate programme at University Hospital Waterford from 1989-1991. He has held a number of clinical and management positions in the mental health services in the south east including Staff Nurse and Clinical Nurse Manager, Community Mental Health Nurse and Project Manager for the Integration of the Carlow/Kilkenny Acute Psychiatric Services. He took up his first academic appointment in 2002 as a lecturer in Nursing at the Department of Nursing, WIT.

Abstract

Background: The health and social care sector is ranked as one of the most stressful fields in which to work. Those working in this area have been found to experience the highest rates of work-related stress, anxiety and... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Cathal Ryan (Waterford Institute of Technology)
  2. John Wells (Waterford Institute of Technology)
  3. Michael Bergin (Waterford Institute of Technology)

Topic Area

Innovations in research methodology, education or clinical practice

Session

GP-1 » Global Perspectives (15:00 - Wednesday, 4th November, Seminar Room 1.26)

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