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Shine Mathew

Shine is currently studying a Postgraduate Certificate in Renal Nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Shine is a registered nurse who originally gained a BSc in Nursing and his nursing registration in his home state of Kerala, India. Shine qualified in 2001 as a BSc general nurse and practised for the first two years in India followed by a further two and a half years in Nepal before returning to India. After his return to India, Shine decided to specialise in dialysis and undertook further training at a regional Medical College.

Following a family relocation to Ireland, Shine gained a wide range of experience firstly working in a residential nursing home and later taking up a post in Letterkenny General Hospital. In 2008 Shine moved to the renal dialysis unit in Letterkenny and in 2010 applied to undertake the Postgraduate Certificate in Renal Nursing at Queen’s University.

The School of Nursing and Midwifery developed the Postgraduate Certificate in Renal Nursing in 2007 to facilitate training for renal nurses working in a new dialysis unit in Cork University Hospital. To facilitate studies in the Republic of Ireland the School developed a distance learning programme which also incorporates some study on the Queen’s campus and clinical placement in the Belfast City Hospital Transplantation Unit.

Due to the flexible nature of the programme the students are able to attend classes via video conferencing and fulfil the majority of their clinical commitments onsite. The programme has since extended to Letterkenny General Hospital, St. Vincents Dublin and HSC Trust staff. Having almost completed the Postgraduate Certificate, Shine would like to continue his studies in the future and gain a Masters qualification in Nursing.