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Archive 2022
Year four Mental Health Student Nurses celebrate completion
Completion of BSc Nursing programme in the Honan Chapel, UCC.
As part of their final group Prep day, the 4th year mental health nursing students (2018 group) celebrated with The Blessing of the Hands in the Honan Chapel, UCC. The ceremony was attended by Dr Maria O’Malley, Dr Johnny Goodwin, Sinead Heffernan, Dr Caroline Dalton, Anne Kelly, Norma Sexton, Joan McSweeney, and Marie-Therese Keating.
Dr Maria O’Malley officiated the event. Dr Caroline Dalton spoke to the students about the important contribution of nurses to the health care services and the value of holding a nursing qualification. Dr Johnny Goodwin, programme lead, read a poem he composed for the group. The class rep, Caroline Harrington also read a poem she composed, and Emer Murphy spoke on behalf of the class.
Ciara McGillycuddy was awarded the Niall O’ Mahony perpetual award.
Niall was a nurse tutor on the psychiatric nursing programme up to 2003 and the award was created in 2004 to honour Niall’s memory and his contribution the mental health services.
Very well done Ciara