Biography

Sharon is a registered Nurse and Midwife with over 45 years spent in nursing and midwifery, 27 years spent practicing as a midwife both in the secondary and primary sector. She has extensive professional nursing and midwifery experience working as a staff nurse and Midwife, Clinical Manager, Midwifery Tutor and Programme coordinator and an Advanced Nurse Practitioner.   Sharon became a midwifery tutor in 2000 training student midwives through UCD Dublin and then Trinity College Dublin and she was a lecturer on the Higher Diploma in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing course through the RCSI Dublin from 2000-2008 and is an RNT.

Sharon commenced working in primary health care in 2008 in GP Practice where she still works part time as an ANP RNP delivering nurse led clinics with a focus on antenatal and postnatal care, chronic disease management, weight management and Women’s and Paediatric health and is actively involved in training and education both with medical students, GP Registrars and GP Nurses (GPN). She lectures on the GPN Principles course that was awarded a highly commended award in 2024 by the HSE. Sharon is a graduate from Trinity College Dublin and RCSI Dublin with a BSc (Hons), RNT, MSc in Advanced Practice and a Registered Nurse Prescriber. Her MSc dissertation discussed how perineal trauma can be reduced in primigravidae woman using perineal massage and its affect on reducing maternal morbidity in the puerperium and Sharon presented at the IGPNEA Conference October 2024 on how GPNs can empower vaccine hesitant parents to vaccinate their children.