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info@sliit.lkCAREER SUMMARY
- Nirosha Edirisinghe has more that 10 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and diploma Nursing programmes in both state and non state higher education institutes
- She joined to SLIIT as a lecturer, School of Nursing in 2022
- Before joining SLIIT she had worked as a Temporary Demonstrator at University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Kotelawala Defence University and as a Research Assistant at University of Sri Jayewardenepura
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Health Sciences- University of Sri Jayewardenepura -2022
- B.Sc in Nursing (Hons)- University of Sri Jayewardenepura- 2011
- Diploma in Information technology - UCSC- 2008
- Certificate of Teaching for Higher Education- 2019
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- 01/2020 - 12/2021 - National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Scholarship
- 2019/2020 08/2020 - Travel grant to attend IASP world Congress at Amsterdam, Netherlands from International Association for the study of Pain (IASP)
- 04/2019 - Awarded two weeks training on 'clinical mentorship' at University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), UK
- 10/2022- Best paper award- Nursing and health Track at SLIIT International Conference for the advancement of Sciences and Humanities (SICASH-2022), Sri Lanka
- 03/2023- Young Innovators Award 2023, 1st runner-up award- International Research Conference in Health Sciences – 2023, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- Pain Assessment and Management
- Holistic care
- Clinical mentoring
- Health informatics
Memberships
- 2020 - to date - Council Member: Sri Lanka chapter-International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
- 2012 - to date - Life member: Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS)
- 2012 - to date - Member: Sri Lanka Graduate Nurses Foundation (GNF)
- 2016 - to date - Member: National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2019 - to date - Member: Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
ONGOING RESEARCH
- A collaborative research project ‘Developing a culturally relevant mentorship education program for Sri Lankan nurses through international, multi-disciplinary collaboration.’ (University of Central Lancashire- UK, Institute of Research and Development- Sri Lanka, Post Basic School of Nursing Sri Lanka) This project is supported by a Global Challenges Research Funding (GCRF) grant, UK.(2018) Co-investigator
- A research project ‘Digitalization of Chronic Pain Services in Sri Lanka: the role of an Electronic Pain App (EPA) for pain assessment, record keeping, and management’ funded by KDU research grants 2021
PUBLICATIONS
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‘Clinical Mentoring: Is it Important for Nursing Education in Sri Lanka?
Kalpani Abhayasinghe., Nirosha Edirisinghe., Thamasi Makuloluwa., Elaine Susanna Hill., “New Vision (Official publication of Graduate Nurses Foundation Sri Lanka)” , pp. 11-13
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Applications of McGill pain questionnaire as an assessment tool for patients with pain: Literature Review
Edirisinghe, N.P., Goonewardena, C.S.E., Makuloluwa, P.T.R. and Amarasekara, A.A.T.D. , “" International Journal of Current Research” , pp. 70116-70121
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Psychometric Properties of Sinhala Version of Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF MPQ-2-Sin) among Patients with Cancer Pain in Sri Lanka.
Edirisinghe, N. P., Makuloluwa, T. R., Amarasekara, T. D., & Goonewardena, C. S. E. , “Pain Research and Management”
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Evaluating Psychometric Properties of the Short Form Brief Pain Inventory Sinhala Version (SF BPI-Sin) among Sinhala Speaking Patients with Cancer Pain in Sri Lanka
Edirisinghe, Nirosha Priyadarshani, Thamasi Rekha Makuloluwa, Thamara Dilhani Amarasekara, and Christine Sampatha Evangeline Goonewardena., “BMC Psychology”
