UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery Annual Report 2020

Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC

Teaching, Contribution to Community and Practice, Awards

Formal Launch of the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020

and midwifery as positive career options; highlighting the need to educate a greater number of future nurses and midwives, and emphasizing the importance of national governments resourcing and creating policies which help support and advance the work of nurses and midwives into the future. The future of nursing is bright; it is incumbent on us all to continue to develop and demonstrate the huge future potential of nurses and midwives across the globe. 4th year nursing students David Fitzgerald and Louise Power were featured in a video produced by the ONMSD which will ultimately be used to profile nursing and midwifery as positive career options to secondary students and others. Noreen Murphy-Coakley a first year general nursing student also attended the event and showed great enthusiasm to be involved in such initiatives in the future.

The formal launch of the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020 in Ireland took place in the Department of Health on the 23rd January 2020. 2020 marks the year that nurses and midwives globally planned to celebrate the 200 anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. 2020 is the WHO designated international year of the nurse and midwife. Speakers at the launch highlighted the evolution of nursing and midwifery practice, policy and regulation over the past 200 years and projected the possibilities for nursing and midwifery into the future reiterating the importance of pushing the boundaries to help realise the full potential of nurses and midwives within our health and social care services. In 2020, we have an opportunity to say thank you to nurses and midwives worldwide for their contribution and celebrate the positive contribution of nurses and midwives. In addition, nurses and midwives globally have a shared agenda that is promoting nursing

Above: UCC nursing students: David Fitzgerald, Noreen Murphy-Coakley, Louise Power pictured at the Department of Health, Dublin at the launch of the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

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