UCC SONM 25 Year Book

UCC / School of Nursing and Midwifery

Deans and Heads of School 1994-2019 - Mission Statements

Professor Geraldine McCarthy

Mission: To establish a School of Nursing and Midwifery within University College Cork, offering undergraduate and post graduate programmes, build research capacity and a culture of enquiry and collaboration with the health services.

The Book hopefully will find a place in many homes as an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed record of the historical development of nursing and midwifery in the Cork region. Those early in their careers can read and understand the origins of our disciplines and how nurse and midwifery education in this region progressed to becoming the School of Nursing and Midwifery we see today in University College Cork (UCC). The School continues to support an agenda of excellence in education, research, clinical practice and community engagement which we hope future generations of educators and students will propel forward.

Professor Eileen Savage

Mission: To lead the School of Nursing and Midwifery to be world class, that is, dynamically engaged at local, national and international levels with shaping the provision and quality of healthcare for the benefit of all through education, research and practice.

Professor Josephine Hegarty

Mission: To ensure the School as a whole is sustained and developed through: prioritising the student experience of programmes, maintaining academic excellence in teaching and examining, ensuring responsiveness of programmes to changing societal and healthcare needs, promoting research with global impact, supporting active academic-clinical- community partnerships and supporting staff and students in the fulfilment of their ambitions.

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