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School helps mark success of trauma training
Pictured at the City Hall event are: Back row from left: Jim Callaghan, Open College Network (OCN) Participant; Howard Keery, Director of the Joint Technical Secretariat, SEUPB; Colette Nulty, Regional Team Leader, Crossborder, POBAL; Jim Keys, Epilogues Programme, Gaslight Productions; and Queen's BSc(Hons) Trauma Studies student, Isobel Stewart.
From front left: Damian McNally, Chair of the WAVE Management Board; Rt Hon, Lord Mayor Niall O Donnghaile; and Sean McCormick, Business Development Officer, OCN
The School of Nursing and Midwifery has helped the WAVE Trauma Centre celebrate the success of its current trauma training programmes which have enhanced the knowledge and skills of those providing trauma care and support in Northern Ireland.
Queen’s staff and students attended an event at Belfast’s City Hall to mark the end of the current Trauma Training Learning Pathway Project, a three-year programme funded by the Special European Union Programme Body.
Trauma Studies co-ordinator at Queen’s Helen Sinclair said: “The School of Nursing and Midwifery has a long-standing partnership with the WAVE Trauma Centre. The School has been working in collaboration with WAVE in the management and delivery of the Diploma in Trauma Studies from 2003 and then the BSc (Hons) Trauma Studies from 2007.
“Funding received by WAVE is vital for us as it supports teaching on the Diploma and BSc (Hons) Trauma Studies and provides financial support through a programme of bursaries to support students undertaking these programmes.
“The event at the City Hall showcased the success of the trauma training programmes and highlighted the importance of securing future funding.”
Speakers at the event included: the Rt Hon, the Lord Mayor, Councillor Niall Ó Donnghaile Mayor of Belfast; Howard Keery, SEUPB; Professor Jean Orr; Sean McCormick, Open College Network Northern Ireland; Jim Keys, Gaslight Productions; and Joe Duffy, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s. Jim Callaghan, Mark Kelly and Isobel Stewart shared a student’s perspective of undertaking the BSc (Hons) Trauma Studies.
WAVE is a grass-roots, cross-community, voluntary organisation formed in 1991 with an overall aim to offer care and support to anyone bereaved or traumatised through the violence, irrespective of religious, cultural or political belief. The package of training within WAVE has ensured a community-led, bottom up approach to enhancing the knowledge and skills base while also providing frameworks to enable competent practice.
WAVE is awaiting news at the beginning of March 2012 of the outcome of a new peace bid which would secure trauma training programmes for the next two years.
For further information on the Trauma Studies programme, please contact Helen Sinclair, School of Nursing and Midwifery: h.sinclair@qub.ac.uk, 028 9097 5848.
Related links:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofNursingandMidwifery/
