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Following Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries, nursing became near non-existent in Ireland for almost three hundred years.The easing of the Penal laws allowed the emergence of volunteer associations of women who formed to aid the sick such as the Sisters of Mercy led by Catherine McAuley and Irish Sisters of Charity led by Mary Aikenhead.
The programs worked, with there being 220 nurses and 324 midwives in 1930 [10] - an increase from the 437 members in 1929. [11] By 1936 there were 937 members. [12] The Irish Nurses Organisation began working on an international level in 1931 and became affiliated with the International Council of Nurses (ICN), an affiliation that continues ...
There are also many private hospitals. Ireland has a lower than OECD-average number of hospital beds according to the 2013 OECD Health at a Glance Report [11] The same report also noted that Ireland has fewer doctors (2.7 doctors per 1,000 population) and more nurses (12.2 nurses per 1,000 population) than average in other OECD countries ...
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The Health and Social Care service was created by the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1948 after the Beveridge Report.. From 1948 to 1974, hospitals in the region were managed by the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority and hospital management committees, and then transferred to four health and social services boards, along with responsibility for social care.
The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) is a charity that works to improve the nursing care of people in their own homes in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It does not operate in Scotland, where the Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland performs a similar function. The QNI is also affiliated to the Queen's Institute of District Nursing in ...
Margaret Rachel Huxley (1854–1940) was an English nurse who introduced structured, scientific nursing training in Ireland. Her initiatives led to the establishment of the first nursing school in Dublin. She was involved in numerous organisations promoting professionalism in nursing and campaigning for nurse registration throughout the British ...
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI), formerly called An Bord Altranais, is the Regulator for the professions of nursing and midwifery in Ireland.It has a statutory obligation to protect the public and the integrity of the practice of the professions of nursing and midwifery.