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4th year B.Sc. Nursing student, Ms Siobhán O’Connor, overall winner at the Undergraduate Awards held recently.

23 Sep 2013

A 4th year B.Sc. Nursing student from University College Cork (UCC), Ms Siobhán O’Connor, was the overall winner in the Nursing & Midwifery category. Her winning submission was entitled "The scourge of chronic venous leg ulcers – is topical zinc the answer? A review of the literature". Ms O’Connor developed the idea for the essay based on her coursework from a wound management module taught by Ms Siobhán Murphy a lecturer in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at UCC. She also had a keen interest in wound care having spent an intensive week at a wound management clinic at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork working alongside Sinead Dennehy, a Clinical Nurse Specialist in wound care. 

The Undergraduate Awards (UA) is the world’s only pan-discipline academic awards programme that identifies the leading creative thinkers and problem solvers through their undergraduate coursework. It is cited as the ultimate champion for high potential undergraduates, as it provides top performing students with the support, network and opportunities they require to raise their profiles and further their career paths. The 2013 Undergraduate Awards received over 3,700 submissions from 182 institutions across 25 countries.  Siobhan Murphy College Lecturer who supported this year’s winner says ”The Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery are very proud of this international achievement and of this calibre of coursework being presented for module assessment”

 Ms O’Connor beat off stiff competition from six other Highly Commended students in the Nursing & Midwifery category, from the University Pennsylvania, King’s College London, Queen’s University Belfast, University of Ulster and St Angela’s College of Education in Sligo, to receive the top prize in her field. As the overall winner Ms O’Connor will attend the Undergraduate Awards 2013 Global Summit taking place in Dublin, Ireland from November 13-15th where she will receive the Bram Stoker Gold Medal, international recognition as a top student in her field and the opportunity to network with her peers and a community of UA scholars. Her research will also be published in the Undergraduate Awards Journal.

 

Ms O’Connor who hails from Kanturk, North Cork says, “I am delighted to receive the Undergraduate Award in the Nursing & Midwifery category. It’s fantastic to have an opportunity to compete at an international level and to demonstrate the impact nursing research can have on our health and well-being. As our society ages, chronic venous leg ulcers are becoming a serious problem not just for patients as they are quite debilitating, painful and take a long time to heal, but they also place a huge resource burden on our health service. I hope that my research can provide nurses and other healthcare professionals on the ground with better evidence for treating this condition. I am also really looking forward to the UA Summit in November and meeting the top students from other categories, such as Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, as I believe that multidisciplinary collaboration is the only way to tackle the complex challenges facing us today.”

 

More information on the Undergraduate Awards can be found here

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