A QUEEN Margaret University professor has been honoured with a place in an international hall of fame.
Professor Brendan McCormack, head of division of nursing at QMU, is one of only 25 nursing experts from around the world given a place in the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) 2014 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.
He is also the first European nurse to achieve the accolade.
Established in 2010, the STTI International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame awards recognise nurse researchers who have achieved significant and sustained, national or international recognition, and whose research has improved the profession and the people it serves.
Professor McCormack is an internationally renowned authority on the nursing of older people, person-centred nursing, and practice development.
His seminal work, ‘Practice Development in Nursing’, explores the basis of practice development, its aims, implementation and impact on health care.
He said: “It is a real honour to have been welcomed into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and to be the first European nurse to achieve this status.
“STTI is a global nursing organisation that promotes excellence in nursing leadership and to be recognised in this way is a privilege. It’s critically important that nursing research has global reach and I am delighted that my research has been considered in this way.” The former University of Ulster director of nursing and health research has received a series of awards for his work in recent years.
In 2011 he was awarded the status of ‘Senior Distinguished Research Fellow’ by the University of Ulster and earlier this year he was given a prestigious Royal College of Nursing Fellowship.
He was also recently named on a list of the world’s top 3,000 researchers, compiled by the multinational media body Thompson Reuters. Inclusion means the research of each academic is listed in the top one per cent for the number of times their work has been cited by others.
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