Geraldine is currently a nurse lecturer in the Department of Nursing & Healthcare since 2019. She is a Registered General Nurse with over 20 years clinical nursing experience.  This experience includes over 10 years as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Palliative Care and a key role model for specialist nursing practice providing mentorship, preceptorship, teaching, facilitation and supervisory skills for all nurses and health care providers.

Geraldine is also a Registered Nurse Tutor with NMBI and holds a Universal Badge in Teaching and Learning. She holds a BSc in Nursing, a MSc in Palliative Care, a Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Education and is awarded membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Geraldine is a PhD Candidate in the area of Undergraduate Nurse Education in Palliative Care.  

Geraldine is involved nationally with the Irish Association in Palliative Care (IAPC) and sits as a board member and is Vice Chair on the IAPC Nursing Forum. She is also part of the All Ireland Institute of Hospice & Palliative Care Technology and Palliative Care Research Special Interest Group.

She is involved internationally as part of the advocacy working group in the Cost Action project: CA22127 Collaborately Developed Culturally Appropriate and Inclusive Assessment Tool for Palliative Care Education. Geraldine is also a member of the nursing taskforce with the European project NursEduPal@IMPACT. The project aims to create learning and training materials needed to enable participants to acquire leadership in palliative care.