MsNatalie McEvoy

Dr Natalie McEvoy is a Lecturer in Critical Care Nursing based in the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), University of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Natalie's clinical experience is in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nursing. Natalie is an Irish Research Council Awardee and was awarded her PhD by the RCSI School of Nursing and Midwifery in 2022. Natalie's PhD focused on pressure ulcer detection among ICU patients using biomarkers to detect inflammation. In 2023 Natalie was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania to to develop an ICU-specific dashboard that explores the relationship between patient needs and nurse staffing with the goal of optimising patient, nurse, and system outcomes.

In 2023 Natalie received a commendation award (Early Career Category) at the Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year Awards. In 2024 Natalie became a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI.

Natalie is the chairperson of an EU grant funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) titled Patient SAFety Related Outcome Measures in European ICUs (SAFE ICU) which aims to bring together experts from different countries and sectors to develop a standardised approach to measuring nurse-sensitive outcomes in the ICU.