Dr Catherine L Murphy PhD, MSc, PGDip, BSc (Hons)
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Catherine L Murphy is Senior Research Fellow within Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Good continence care is fundamental to good nursing care. If we get continence care wrong, the impact on vulnerable and frail patients can be devastating. Working with the Continence Management research group, I aim to contribute to improvements in the evidence base, policy making and care provision.
Catherine Murphy is a senior research fellow in the Continence Management research group in Health Sciences, University of Southampton.
Catherine qualified as a registered nurse from the University of Southampton post graduate diploma course and has since practised in a palliative and end of life care environment. From 2011 to 2014 she undertook a PhD in Health Sciences, focusing on what influences clinicians to make the decision to place a urinary catheter with patients in acute care. Working within the Cochrane Incontinence Group, Catherine co-authored a systematic review of intermittent catheterisation for long-term bladder management.
As part of the Continence Management research team, she is:
- developing a patient decision aid to assist people to choose the continence products that will best suit their needs as part of the True Nth Prostate UK Continence Management Programme
- working on the urinary catheter reduction programme to optimise the use of urinary catheters by aiming to better understand when the risks of catheter use outweigh the benefits
- developing a study to explore the continence needs of people at the end of life and how they and their carers can be supported