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In order to practice, all nurses must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board. The Board was established by the Nurses and Midwives Act, 2011. In addition to the formation of the NMBI, the Act also made provision for the separation of nursing and midwifery as separate professions. The NMBI maintains two registers: [2]
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is the largest Irish professional union for nurses and midwives with 40,000 members. It was founded in 1919 after World War I, when a group of Irish nurses and midwives had a meeting in Dublin to discuss the issues in promoting an improvement in wages and advocating for a standard to be set for the conduction of their duties in the medical profession.
The HSE adopted a regional structure (HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster, HSE Dublin North East, HSE South and HSE West). [ 3 ] A new grouping of hospitals was announced by the Irish Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly TD , in May 2013, as part of a restructure of Irish public hospitals and a goal of delivering better patient care: [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
It has a statutory obligation to protect the public and the integrity of the practice of the professions of nursing and midwifery. It performs its functions in the public interest under the Nurses Act, 1985 and the Nurses and Midwives Ac, 2011. [1] [2] As the Regulator for the professions of nursing and midwifery, NMBI: [3]
Midwifery-led continuity of care is where one or more midwives have the primary responsibility for the continuity of care for childbearing women, with a multidisciplinary network of consultation and referral with other health care providers. This is different from "medical-led care" where an obstetrician or family physician is primarily ...
The National Ambulance Service College (NASC) (Irish: Coláiste Náisiúnta an tSeirbhís Otharchairr) was first established in 1986 as the National Ambulance Training School and is based at the organisation's new HQ named the Rivers Building in Tallaght, which also houses the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC). 999/112 emergency calls are processed here also, as well as a second base ...
Its functions are similar to those of the Health and Safety Executive in the rest of the United Kingdom. [1] The HSENI employs approximately 105 staff. [2] It was founded as the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland when the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 were extended to the province in 1978. [3]
On 16 January 2021, the Department of Health announced the suspension of all nursing and midwifery student placements for two weeks due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on staffing levels. [ 221 ] [ 222 ] The next day on 17 January, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) called for further clarity on the decision to suspend ...