UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

School of Nursing transferred to the Mercy Hospital to complete their training. Two years later in 1989, the Department of Health and An Bord Altranais amalgamated the Schools of Nursing at the South Infirmary and Victoria Hospital to the School of Nursing at the Mercy Hospital, which was known as the Cork Voluntary Hospitals School of Nursing, Mercy Hospital until 1997. In 1996 in line with the National reforms in nurse education the Registration/ Diploma in Nursing Programme began in partnership with UCC. The Mercy, for most of its 158-year existence has been a Voluntary Hospital. It is beyond question that the life and work of the Sisters of Mercy has been central to the local community in Cork. The Sisters have been, in a very real sense, co-workers responsible in many ways for the development of the health service in Cork City and County.

Teaching session with students in the Mercy University Hospital

Students and Staff at Mercy University Hospital

Nurse Graduates with Director of Nursing, MUH Margaret McKiernan and Sr. Laurentia Roche 2018

The Sisters of Mercy have been acknowledged for their outstanding contribution over the years especially, Sr. Concepta Twomey Principal Tutor (MUH), Sr. Laurentia Roche Director of Nursing (MUH) Sr. Killian Searson Principal Tutor (St Finbarr’s Hospital and CUH), Sr. Immaculata Hegarty, HomeSister (St Finbarr’sHospital andCUH), Sr. Kevin Ryan Principal tutor (South Infirmary) and all of the Sisters who support the education of nurses over the decades. In April 2008 having received approval from the College of Medicine and Health and University College Cork the School was formally called the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Sr. Laurentia, Sr. Liz Murphy, Professor Geraldine McCarthy, and Sr. Concepta on the occasion of the naming of the School as the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, 2008.

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