Dr Niall Fitzpatrick
Senior Lecturer In Occupational Therapy
Senior Lecturer
Department of Allied and Public Health , School Of Health, Sport And Bioscience
Dr Fitzpatrick is the course lead for the BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy by apprenticeship courses at UEL. He obtained his PhD in 2014.
Qualifications
- PG Cert, University of East London
- PhD, London South Bank University, UK
- MSc Occupational Therapy, University of East London, UK
OVERVIEW
Niall has worked closely with Plastic and Orthopaedic Consultant teams to promote closer cooperation, including the training of junior surgical staff, by devising and conveying strategies to streamline working practices within these specialties.
He also developed new patient pathways to make patient access to services more efficient. He is currently a member of the British Association of Occupational Therapists, Health and Care Professions Council and British Association of Hand Therapists.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Conference presentations
Fitzpatrick, N. (2019) Understanding adaptive experiences following hand injury: Supporting patients to manage their expectations. Poster presented at International Federation for Societies of Hand Therapy, Berlin.
Fitzpatrick, N. (2017) An exploration of the return to work experiences of individuals who are managing a traumatic hand injury and the development of a return to work intervention. Paper Presentation BAHT Conference, Norwich.
Fitzpatrick, N. (2013) To investigate the experience of patients returning to work after suffering a traumatic hand injury. International Human Science Research Conference, Aalborg, Denmark.
Fitzpatrick, N. (2012) To investigate experiences of patients returning to work after suffering a traumatic hand injury, London Southbank University Summer School, London, UK.
Fitzpatrick, N. (2006). The need to include family and friends in treatment planning for patients who have undergone a flexor tendon repair to their hands. Poster presentation at the World Federation of Occupational Therapists, Sydney, Australia.
Fitzpatrick, N. (2002). The patient doesn’t end at the elbow: Creativity lends a hand in occupational therapy. Poster presented at the 1.
PUBLICATIONS
Fitzpatrick, N and Finlay, L (2008) 'Frustrating disability': the lived experience of coping with the rehabilitation phase following flexor tendon surgery. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 3(3).
Fitzpatrick, N., (2007) 'A phenomenological Investigation of Peoples' Experiences Following a Flexor Tendon Injury to their Hand(s). British Journal of Hand Therapy.
Fitzpatrick, N. (2006) 'Through the maze, a learning pathway through a six month hand therapy rotation'. British Journal of Hand Therapy.
Fitzpatrick, N., and Presnell, S., (2004) 'Can an Occupational Therapist be a Hand Therapist?' British Journal of Occupational Therapists 67 (11) 508-510(3).
MODULES
- Occupational Therapy
- Sociology in Health
- Clinical Reasoning
- Education in Health
- Research Process and Theoretical Frameworks
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