Biography:
Louise Kelly commenced her nursing training in 2000 in Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Throughout her nursing career she has worked predominantly on the acute floor/unscheduled care setting. She has completed a post graduated diplomas in emergency nursing (2009) and gerontology (2016) in TCD, a masters in nursing (2019) through Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI) and most recently completed her post graduate diploma in advanced practice/prescribing (2022) via TCD. She is currently based in the newly established Age Related Assessment Unit (ARAU) on the acute floor of TUH, the first unit of its kind in Ireland. Louise was awarded The Mary O’Connor Award for Excellence in Emergency Nursing in 2021 for her work on pressure ulcer detection and prevention in emergency patients. She has presented at the Irish Gerontology Society and the All Ireland Integrated Care conferences and is the nursing lead for the National Frailty Education Programme for TUH and its community health area.
Title : An age related acute medical unit – Creating an age-attuned model of acute care