Dr. Susan Kent is Professor Associate - Nursing, Midwifery, Community and Public Health, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health at Dublin City University.
Previous positions include: Assistant National Director, Change Capacity, Service Redesign and Supporting the Implementation of the Sláintecare Strategy (HSE). This role lead on ‘Service Redesign and Integration’ & Deputy Chief Nursing Officer (DCNO), Department of Health 2014-2018, with responsibility for Women's Health, Child Health and Welfare and Primary Care Services. Prior to this post she was the Regional Specialist for Child Health and Immunisation in the Dublin North East region.
Susan has had a nursing and midwifery career spanning 37 years. She demonstrates a long practice combined with academic experience. Susan has worked in acute and community areas and primary, secondary and tertiary care settings.
Her academic and professional experience and qualifications were obtained in Ireland and the UK.
She has also taught on the Mary Seacole Programme for the NHS leadership programme in the UK and is a tutor on the RCSI Organisational Development Masters course.
Susan was awarded the Nurses Medal in Jervis Street Hospital and Midwife of the Year in Manchester. She has a professional background of leadership within her areas of practice. She has also worked for long periods with populations in vulnerable groups in society.
She has had a long practice involvement in foster care and child protection. She has led on many national initiatives and projects for service redesign and improvement of patient care and safety.
Susan is published in Health Policy, Child Health, Traveller Health, Maternity technological solutions and has several publications related to her Doctoral award. As DCNO she also developed the draft policy on a nursing and midwifery integrated community model of care.
She has also published in child protection collaboratively with colleagues from Israel on the TACHYwe Tempus EU project (TCD, Dublin).
Her PhD enquired from grandfathers in Ireland and identified the new concept of ‘Redemption Theory’.