Geraldine Finnan
Geraldine Finnan

Dr Geraldine Finnan

Lecturer

  G.Finnan@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Gerry’s pre nursing career involved working on large scale quality improvement projects in the manufacturing and retail fashion industry as a Technical and Project Manager.
Gerry holds a BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing and worked clinically in adult palliative and end of life care (PEOLC) and held a Quality Improvement Facilitator role for PEOLC before joining Edinburgh Napier University in 2021.
Gerry completed her PhD at ENU in 2021, examining the lived experiences of nurses delivering PEOLC in an acute settings and their experience of grief and making meaning following the death of their patients.
Gerry is passionate about supporting nurses and other health care professionals and providers to care for themselves and each other. Additional areas of interest are interprofessional learning and education, anticipatory care planning and the development of teams to facilitate change and deliver quality improvement in practice settings.
Gerry is currently Programme Lead for Year 3 adult nursing students and lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University teaching on the undergraduate nursing and postgraduate leadership in healthcare programmes.

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Invited Speaker

  • Scottish Advanced Practice Educators Network ( SAPEN)

 

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Advocating for Change - Enabling Authentic Assessment at Scale

Presentation / Conference
Mahoney, C., Bastow, F., & Finnan, G. (2024, June)
Advocating for Change - Enabling Authentic Assessment at Scale. Presented at International AHE Conference 2024, Manchester
Background: Authentic assessment aims to connect learning to real-world issues which are meaningful to the learner (Villarroel et al 2018; Gillard-Cook; West 2014; Rule 2007)....

"It's not our grief to have..?" The lived experiences of professional grief that palliative care nurses experience whilst delivering end of life care in acute hospital settings

Thesis
Finnan, G. "It's not our grief to have..?" The lived experiences of professional grief that palliative care nurses experience whilst delivering end of life care in acute hospital settings. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2913139
Background The population in Scotland is ageing with a projected increase of 75% in the over 75’s by 2031. Currently over 55,000 people die in Scotland each year. This figure...

BLOG No. 9 - Final blog in the 'deaths at home' series

Digital Artefact
Savinc, J. (2022)
BLOG No. 9 - Final blog in the 'deaths at home' series. [Blog]

Supporting Opioid Prescribing in NHS Borders

Presentation / Conference
Finnan, G., Howell, A., MacDougal, L., Flint, R., & Ditzel, M. (2020, September)
Supporting Opioid Prescribing in NHS Borders. Poster presented at SPPC Annual Conference 2020, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

SPOT-The Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool: Deployment and Scale-up in Clinical Practice

Presentation / Conference
Finnan, G., Howell, A., MacDougal, G., & Flint, R. (2018, September)
SPOT-The Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool: Deployment and Scale-up in Clinical Practice. Poster presented at SPPC Annual Conference 2018, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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