Yvonne Corcoran
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Dr Yvonne Corcoran is an assistant Professor (Children’s Nursing) in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health in Dublin City University (DCU) and was Deputy Head of School from September 2023 to July 2025. Yvonne is a Registered Children’s Nurse, General Nurse and Registered Midwife, who worked for many years in the area of paediatric critical care and nurse education. She completed an MSc in Education in 2004 in DCU and completed her PhD in the University of Ulster in April 2017. Her PhD study was a hermeneutic phenomenological study exploring the lived experiences of parents caring for their child who is technology dependent with complex healthcare needs at home. Her current research interests lie broadly in the area of child health, children with complex continuing healthcare needs/palliative and EOL care for children and research with vulnerable groups in society using qualitative/mixed methods approaches.
Currently she is a co-applicant on 2 funded research projects-a HEA north/South 2 year funded research project (The all-island CO-DECIDE Study: Co-production of a decision-making framework for planning the place of end-of-life care for children, young people and their families on the island of Ireland) and a an APA 2 year funded study-Memory-making through therapeutic recreation for families of children with life-threatening conditions receiving palliative care at home: Adaptation of a digital storytelling legacy intervention.
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Crowe A; Hurley F; Kiernan G; Kerr H; Corcoran Y; Price J; Reid J; Courtney E; McConnell T; McNeilly P; Lambert V (2025) 'Decision‑making regarding place of end‑of‑life care for children with life‑limiting and life‑threatening conditions: a systematic integrative review'. BMC Palliative Care, OnlineFirst (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-025-01661-1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-025-01661-1 | |
| 2025 | Safarifard R; Kiernan G; Corcoran Y; Courtney E; Mitchell J; Terrah A; Lambert V (2025) 'Memory-making interventions for children with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions and their families: a systematic review of evidence and implications for practice'. Palliative Medicine, . [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Safarifard R; Kiernan G; Corcoran Y; Courtney E; Mitchell J; Terrah A; Lambert V (2025) 'Memory-making interventions for children and their families in paediatric palliative and bereavement care: a systematic review of evidence and implications for practice'. Palliative Medicine, . [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Malone Gill S; Hayes O; Corcoran Y; Gunning A; Swallow V; Nicholson E; Nafria Escalera B; Drury A; Murphy E; Templeman-Lilley A; Lambert V (2025) 'Protocol for an umbrella review of the state-of-science on public and patient involvement in health and social care research with children, young people and families. [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]'. HRB Open Research, 8:78 . [DOI] | |
| 2025 | Crowe, A.; Hurley, F.; Kiernan, G.; Kerr, H.; Corcoran, Y.; Price, J.; Reid, J.; Courtney, E.; McConnell, T.; McNeilly, P.; Lambert, V. (2025) 'Decision-making regarding place of end-of-life care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions: a systematic integrative review'. BMC Palliative Care, 24 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Safarifard r; Kiernan G; Corcoran Y; Courtney E; Mitchell J; Akard T; Lambert V (2024) 'Memory-making interventions for children and their families receiving pediatric palliative or bereavement care: A systematic review protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]'. HRB Open Research, 7:30 . https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13891.2 | |
| 2024 | Safarifard, R.; Kiernan, G.; Corcoran, Y.; Courtney, E.; Mitchell, J.; Akard, T.; Lambert, V. (2024) 'Memory-making interventions for children and their families receiving pediatric palliative or bereavement care: A systematic review protocol'. HRB Open Research, 7 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2024 | Safarifard R,; Kiernan G,; Corcoran Y,; Courtney E,; Mitchell J,; Akatd T,; Lambert V. (2024) 'Memory-making interventions for children and their families receiving pediatric palliative or bereavement care: A systematic review protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]'. HRB Open Research, 7 (30). https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13891.2 | |
| 2022 | Connor, E.O.; Corcoran, Y. (2022) 'Caring for a child with a life limiting condition: The experiences of nurses in an intellectual disability service provider'. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 26 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Teeling, S.P.; Davies, C.; Barnard, M.; O’Connor, L.; Coffey, A.; Lambert, V.; McNamara, M.; Tuohy, D.; Frawley, T.; Redmond, C.; Somanadhan, S.; Casey, M.; Corcoran, Y.; Doody, O.; O’brien, D.; Noonan, M.; Smith, R.; Bradshaw, C.; Murphy, S.; Dore, L.; Lyons, R.; McGeehan, M.; Gallen, A. (2021) 'A rapid realist review of quality care process metrics implementation in nursing and midwifery practice'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | O'Connor, L.; Coffey, A.; Lambert, V.; Casey, M.; McNamara, M.; Teeling, S.P.; O'Doherty, J.; Barnard, M.; Corcoran, Y.; Davies, C.; Doody, O.; Frawley, T.; O'Brien, D.; Redmond, C.; Smith, R.; Somanadhan, S.; Noonan, M.; Bradshaw, C.; Tuohy, D.; Gallen, A. (2021) 'Quality care process metrics (QCP-Ms) in nursing and midwifery care processes: a rapid realist review (RRR) protocol'. HRB Open Research, 3 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | O'Connor L, Coffey A, Lambert V, Casey M, McNamara M, Teeling SP, O’Doherty J, Barnard M, Corcoran Y, Davies C, Doody O, Frawley T, O’Brien D, Redmond C, Smith R, Somanadhan S, Noonan M, Bradshaw C, Tuohy D, Gallen A (2021) 'Quality care process metrics (QC-Ms) in nursing and midwifery care processes: a rapid realist review (RRR) protocol [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]'. HRB Open Research, doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13120.2 . [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Staines, A; Balanda, KP; Barron, S; Corcoran, Y; Fahy, L; Gallagher, L; Greally, T; Kilroe, J; Mohan, CM; Matthews, A; McGovern, E; Nicholson, A; O'Farrell, A; Philip, RK; Whelton, H (2016) 'Child Health Care in Ireland'. The Journal of pediatrics, 177S . [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Staines, A.; Balanda, K.P.; Barron, S.; Corcoran, Y.; Fahy, L.; Gallagher, L.; Greally, T.; Kilroe, J.; Mohan, C.M.; Matthews, A.; McGovern, E.; Nicholson, A.; O'Farrell, A.; Philip, R.K.; Whelton, H. (2016) 'Child Health Care in Ireland'. Journal of Pediatrics, 177 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Corcoran, Y; Barr, PO; Baxter, R (2016) 'OC12 - A journey suspended in time: parents' experiences of caring for their child who is 'technology dependent' with complex ongoing healthcare needs at home'. Nursing children and young people, 28 (4). [DOI] |