We are delighted that the School has won two QUB Teaching Awards this year:
Name: Jayne Price, Senior Teaching Fellow
Award: Category One, Experienced Teacher Category
Citation: “This award is made for an effective team-teaching approach to addressing the educational needs of a very difficult but important speciality. The panel was impressed by the responsiveness of the team, in the design of the course, to the needs of a diverse group of students, using a wide range of teaching strategies to provide an impressive learning experience for their students.”
Title: Improving Quality Care through Education in Paediatric Palliative Care (Graduate and Continuing Education)
This application highlighted how very specific educational needs have been addressed with the development of the first multi-professional education programme in Paediatric Palliative Care in Ireland. Through a combination of innovative and dynamic teaching strategies, students are armed with the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver specialised care, which is underpinned by a critical, reflective approach to evidence-based practice. Wide dissemination through publications and conference papers has ensured that practice has been influenced locally as well as further a field.
The paediatric palliative care programme at QUB was developed by Jayne Price, a senior teaching fellow in consultation with Patricia Mc Neilly a teaching fellow from the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Both educationalists have extensive clinical experience nursing children with life-limiting illness. The programme has also received International acclaim at the International Journal of Palliative Nursing/ Macmillan Cancer Relief Awards 2006.
Although the project was implemented by Jayne Price in association with Patricia McNeilly, much support and encouragement have been given by Child Branch Teaching Team.
Name: Dr Marian Traynor, Assistant Director of Education (Adult Nursing Unit), Nursing Division
Award: Category One, Experienced Teacher Category
Citation: “This award goes to an extremely effective and dedicated team who are providing a multi-faceted learning opportunity to prepare their students rapidly and effectively for real-life situations they will meet in practice. The team are equipping students with a number of valuable skills such as critical observation skills and the ability to think quickly and decisively in potentially stressful situations. The panel particularly noted the team’s responsiveness to the needs of the students according to their level of experience."
Title: Developing Problem-Based Learning Clinical Case Scenarios for Undergraduate Nursing Students using Simulation Technology
This application highlighted how students can benefit from the use of problem based clinical case scenarios using high fidelity technology. Through a combination of teaching strategies students had the opportunity to experience “real life” scenarios in a safe environment. Students were therefore required to think critically and analytically about their nursing interventions and to use peer and self-evaluation as a means of promoting reflective practice.
The teaching strategy incorporating problem-based learning case scenarios and high fidelity simulation was developed by Dr Marian Traynor, Assistant Director of Education for Adult Nursing in consultation with Anne Gallagher, Lorna Martin, Susie Smyth and Billiejoan Rice nurse lecturers in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. It is now being developed within an inter professional context and is contributing to the educational research within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and throughout the University as apart of CETL (NI).
