UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

(L-R) back row: Suzanne Denieffe, Fiona Willis, Lisa Herrity, Agnes Sheehy, Dawn Farrell, Ruth Lernihan, Catherine Buckley, Gerardina Harnett-Collins. Front row: Alice Coffey, Elizabeth Weathers, Nicola Cornally, Claire O’ Gorman.

The Omega Epsilon at-Large Chapter was launched in UCC on Thursday, 29 November 2018. The board of directors include: Elizabeth Weathers, president (Royal College of Surgeons Bahrain); Nicola Cornally, vice president (UCC); Catherine Buckley, secretary (St. Luke’s Northridge House Education Centre); Dawn Farrell, treasurer (ITT); Alice Coffey, chair of the Governance Committee (University of Limerick); Suzanne Denieffe, member of the Governance Committee (WIT); Gerardina Harnett, member of the Governance Committee (WIT); Ruth Lernihan, chair of the Activities/Research Committee (South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital); Claire O’Gorman, chair of the Public Relations Committee (WIT); Lisa Herrity, member of the Public Relations Committee (ITT); Fiona Willis, chair of the Leadership Succession Committee (NMPDU); and Agnes Sheehy, chair of the Awards/Philanthropy Committee (ITT). Becoming part of Sigma, one of the largest and most successful nursing organizations in the world, gives Irish nurses and midwives access to professional supports, enabling them to transcend boundaries and have a voice in the national and international communities of their peers, all of whom are working toward the goal of improving health care through knowledge, scholarship, and service.

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