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Location: Online via MS Teams
The Faculty of Education and Health Sciences is pleased to invite you to attend the fifth session of this academic year’s Knowledge with Impact public lectures on Thursday, 15 May. The speaker on the day is:
Dr Dympna Tuohy, School of Nursing and Midwifery: Learning from each other: Developing and incorporating Intergenerational Cafés within BSc Nursing Programmes
Please note this lecture will be recorded.
Lecture description:
Many older people during their lives will require nursing care, consequentially most nurses will care for older people during their career. It is important that older people and student nurses are provided with shared learning opportunities so that professional caring partnerships can be nurtured and realised for mutual benefit. Intergenerational projects offer opportunities for intergenerational learning. However, few projects explore student nurse-older person dyads and how these can be integrated within undergraduate pre-registration programmes.
This presentation will describe the genesis, development, management and facilitation of the first intergenerational cafés which were online and during Covid 19 pandemic. It will also describe the research undertaken with participants which explored their thoughts of the café concept as a way of supporting intergenerational learning as well as their views on the café organisation. It will describes how the intergenerational café initiative is embedded as an in-person event within the third year BSc Nursing curriculum.
Speaker bio:
Dr Dympna Tuohy, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery has taught and been involved in nurse education, teaching and assessment from undergraduate to postgraduate level for several years. This includes programme development, curriculum development and review, and dissertation supervision at various levels. Prior to this as a registered general nurse, she nursed and cared for people in clinical practice. Her interest in older people care has been longstanding. Her PhD studies explored ‘Older women’s experiences of ageing and health-related issues in Ireland'. Her current research areas of interest include Intergenerational Cafés (to increase intergenerational learning between student nurses and older people), Delirium learning resources development project between UL and Queen’s University Belfast; Residential care and Supporting student learning through the use of arts based projects. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals: 3 (Good health & wellbeing), 4 (Quality Education) and 10 (Reduced Inequalities).