Gary Mitchell

Lecturer (Education), School of Nursing and Midwifery

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 5833
EmailGary.Mitchell@qub.ac.uk

Room 04.309 - Medical Biology Centre
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I have an interest in the following broad topic areas: - Older People - Care Homes - Dementia - Delirium - Palliative Care - Communication - Restraint - Oncology - Oral Chemotherapy - Ethnography - Qualitative Research

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Personal profile

Teaching

I teach first-year undergraduates on the 'Professional Nursing Values' & the 'Evidence-Based Nursing' modules. I am involved in teaching simulation to third-year undergraduates as part of the BSc (Hons) Nursing Programme. At postgraduate level, I co-coordinate the 'Working with People with Dementia' Programme. I also teach across the specialist practice programme in the 'Nursing Older People' programme pathway.

I act as a link-lecturer for a number of clinical areas in the Downe Hospital and independent sector. I also support a number of nurses, undertaking their specialist practice (older people), with clinical visits throughout Northern Ireland. In addition, I serve as a personal tutor for a group of 50 undergraduate student nurses at the School.

With regards to scholarship, I am currently working on projects to evaluate the impact of an educational game about flu awareness, the effectiveness of a face-to-face delirium champions workshop co-developed by the Royal College of Nursing & the long-term impact of the dementia friends programme on student nurses at the university.

Research Interests

Over the past number of years I have been involved in research projects which have examined communication about oral chemotherapy, safe-staffing in care homes, the use of digital audits in long-term care facilities, the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions in dementia care & palliative care in care homes.

I am currently working on a funded project to develop a digital game to improve public perception of dementia.

Research Focus

Funded Projects:

Mitchell G, Carter G, Parsons C, Barton C, Kelly R, Rogers C & Brown-Wilson C (2020-2022) Co-development of a digitial intervention to reduce restrictive practices in care homes. Burdett Trust for Nursing.

Mitchell G, Brown-Wilson C, Coleman D, Brocklehurst P, Tsakos G, Lappin C & McKenna G (2020-2022) Development of a digital intervention to improve oral health for older people living with complex needs in the community. Burdett Trust for Nursing.

Mitchell G, Carlise S, McMullan J & Wong A (2020-2021) Co-development of Parkinson's Disease education for nursing students. Public Health Agency Northern Ireland.

Mitchell G, Brown-Wilson C & Craig S. (2019-2020) A qualitative evaluation of the dementia friends programme delivered to undergraduate medical and nursing students in Northern Ireland. Alzheimer's Society.

McCance T, Brown D, Mitchell G & Gormley K (2019-2021) Recording care through the PACE Framework: Research Evaluation of an innovative approach to person-centred care planning. Public Health Agency Northern Ireland.

Brown-Wilson C, Carter C & Mitchell G (2018-2019) Development of a digital game to improve public perception of dementia. Dementia Development Services Trust.