After meeting Dr Loreena Hill at the Heart Failure Association Congress in Lisbon, she agreed join me for a full-length episode. She shares how research was never a part of her career plan and yet she is the only nurse in Ireland to have received a BHF Fellowship to do research! Curious? Listen to this episode to find out how she became a nurse researcher.

Top 3 Takeaways

1) Research can extend your clinical impact.

2) Research is uncomfortable, it can take years to see its impact.

3) Using Co-design can give your intervention the best chance at being meaningful.

Bio: Dr Loreena Hill, is a Heart failure nurse with prescribing authority. She is currently employed as a Reader in the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Queen’s University. Her research interests centre around Heart Failure, in particular patients with an implanted cardiac device (ICD) as well as those in advanced/palliative stages of HF. She was awarded Career Development Research Fellowship, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) in April 2023. This project will co-design and test a digital intervention which will provide information and support to patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator within Belfast and Clydebank.

Find Loreena Hill online:

Website: https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofNursingandMidwifery/Research/find-a-phd-supervisor/dr-loreena-hill.html

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loreena-hill-14588b229/?originalSubdomain=uk

X: https://x.com/hillloreena

Read Loreena’s Research publications:

1) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejhf.1994

2) https://www.cfrjournal.com/articles/heart-failure-nurses-within-primary-care-setting

3) https://academic.oup.com/eurjcn/article/15/1/20/5932422?login=false

4) https://spcare.bmj.com/content/12/e2/e219

Loreena is not currently reading a book for fun.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rosalynn-austin-147b3980/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosalynnaustin/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RosalynnAustin

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