DrFrancesca Napolitano

Dr Francesca Napolitano is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at RCSI. Actually, she is working with the European Centre of Excellence for Research in Continuing Professional Development in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at RCSI.

Previously, Francesca has worked as a nurse in two different public hospitals in Genoa (Italy), one of which is a university teaching hospital. She had a clinical experience both in medical area both in surgical area. She also worked in a ward dedicated to the Covid pandemic and helped to manage it in her role as vice head nurse. 

She graduated with a Master’s degree in Nursing and Midwifery and a PhD in Health Sciences (curriculum nursing) from University of Genoa, in Italy. During her PhD, she conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post-intervention mixed-methods study aimed to develop emotional competence in Nursing students. Qualitative data collection was carried out on the basis of the Normalization Process Theory (NPT) and Context-Mechanism-Outcomes (CMO) methodologies.

She had acted as a co-supervisor for a number of students on the Master’s and Bachelor’s degree programmes in nursing at the University of Genoa. She is a reviewer for a few peer-reviewed journals and is a Fellow of the RCSI Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery.