Dr. Nirosha Edirisinghe

Faculty of Humanities & Sciences | School of Nursing

Career 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

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

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)

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

Edirisinghe, Nirosha Priyadarshani, Thamasi Rekha Makuloluwa, Thamara Dilhani Amarasekara, and Christine Sampatha Evangeline Goonewardena. " "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" " BMC Psychology, vol.9, Issue 34, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00538-1,
Edirisinghe, N. P., Makuloluwa, T. R., Amarasekara, T. D., & Goonewardena, C. S. E. " "Psychometric Properties of Sinhala Version of Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire-2 (SF MPQ-2-Sin) among Patients with Cancer Pain in Sri Lanka." " Pain Research and Management, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/5050979,
Edirisinghe, N.P., Goonewardena, C.S.E., Makuloluwa, P.T.R. and Amarasekara, A.A.T.D. " "Applications of McGill pain questionnaire as an assessment tool for patients with pain: Literature Review" " " International Journal of Current Research, vol.10, Issue 06, 2022, pp.70116-70121 ,
Kalpani Abhayasinghe., Nirosha Edirisinghe., Thamasi Makuloluwa., Elaine Susanna Hill. " �Clinical Mentoring: Is it Important for Nursing Education in Sri Lanka? " New Vision (Official publication of Graduate Nurses Foundation Sri Lanka), vol.08, Issue 01, 2018, pp.11-13,