UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

Dr. Rena Creedon (the nurse prescribing course coordinator) in her PhD study sought to understand the complexities of nurse prescribing and the interplays between the organizational structures, professional issues and patient impact on medication prescribing in a thesis titled: A mixed method study to explore the impact of nurse prescribing in clinical practice. Rena’s thesis demonstrated that the competence and confidence levels of nurse prescribers in an Irish context are comparable to their counterparts in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Sharing information on Nurse Prescribing-Visitors from Sweden with Dr. Rena Creedon, Professor Geraldine McCarthy and Dr. Elizabeth O’ Connell

Nora McNamara, Jenny Lynch, Amanda Brolley, Anita Ryan, Sharon Maher, Kay Fitzmaurice MSc in Nursing (ANP) Graduation

MSc IN NURSING (ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING)

Challenges and changes in health care delivery has resulted in the development of advanced nursing practice roles in Ireland. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) published updated Advanced Practice Standards and Requirements in 2017. In response to a call from the Department of Health for a tender to provide a broad-based educational programme to prepare advanced nurse practitioners, the School of Nursing and Midwifery led a national consortium (together with TCD, UCD, NUIG) in developing a new programme. The MSc in Nursing (Advanced Practice Nursing) is a broad-based educational programme for advanced nursing practice. Students come from a diverse array of clinical settings and are prepared in nurse prescribing, leadership and governance for advanced practice, clinical decision making and quality of care as well as advanced research methods. There is a requirement for students to undertake a clinical practicum of supervised clinical practice. Students who successfully complete the programme are registered as an advanced practitioner with the NMBI.

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