Nursing and Midwifery Services

Publications and Reports on Nursing and Midwifery Services are available to read or download on this page

National Policy for Intravenous Medication Administration.pdf (size 1.4 MB)

National Dementia Training Programme Resources 

National Policy for Nurse and Midwife Medicinal Product Prescribing 2012.pdf (size 2 MB) This policy replaces the individual national policies for the Intellectual Disability Sector, Acute Hospitals, Primary, Community and Continuing Care

Guideline for the Care and Management of a Central Venous Access Device (2012). "An education programme to support the implementation of this guideline can be accessed through your local Centre for Nursing/Midwifery Education"

A Guiding Framework for Education and Training in Screening and Brief Intervention for Problem Alcohol Use.pdf (size 1.5 MB)

A Strategy and Educational Framework for Nurses Caring for People with Cancer ( May 2012)

A Vision for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

ONMSD Newsletter April 2012 Volume 3 Issue 1 (ONMSD April 2012)

National Guideline for Cystic Fibrosis Nurses for the First Contact Telephone Call

Survey of 2006-2010 Graduates of a Post Registration Nurse Education Programme Leading to Registration as a Children's Nurse (ONMSD Jan 2011)

Survey of 2006-2010 Graduates of a Post Registration Nurse Education Programme Leading to Registration as a Midwife

ONMSD Newsletter Dec 2010 Volume 1 Issue 4

Report of Survey of 2010 BSc Nursing Graduates

Report of Survey of 2009 BSc Nursing Graduates (ONMSD 2010)

Guidelines for the Management of Pre-gestational and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus from Pre-conception to the Postnatal period

Guideline for Nurse/Midwife Facilitated Discharge Planning (2009)

Survey of 2008 Nursing Graduates: Where are they now?

Nursing graduates who later registered as midwives found jobs

National Policy for Nurse Medicinal Product Prescribing in the Intellectual Disability Sector

National Policy for Nurse and Midwife Medicinal Product Prescribing in Acute Hospitals

National Policy for Nurse and Midwife Medicinal Product Prescribing in Primary Community and Continuing Care

Independent Examination of the Potential for Reducing Nursing Working Hours in Ireland

Venepuncture and Intravenous Cannulation Education and Training

A Guiding Framework for Education, Training and Competence Validation in Venepuncture and Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation for Nurses and Midwives (ONSD, 2010)

Post-registration Nursing and Midwifery Education Review

Findings from the Survey of 2007 Nursing Graduates Where are they now? March 2009

Nurse and Midwife Prescribers How they care for you

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