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We are delighted to open applications for the Higher Diploma in Children’s Nursing Course in conjunction with Tallaght University Hospital. Application deadline is 28th February 2019.

The Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability at Trinity College Dublin is launching a new Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) geared to healthcare professionals, care providers and others who work with people with an intellectual disability.

Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft who delivered a public lecture entitled Full disclosure: should I open up about my mental health difficulties? on the 29th of November 2018.

A new Trinity College tradition: the inaugural presentation of the School of Nursing and Midwifery medal at today’s Commencement Ceremony (3 Dec 2018) was announced by the Registrar, Professor Paula Murphy, as a new Trinity College tradition.

On Wednesday 21 November 2018, the School of Nursing & Midwifery, hosted its Annual School Awards for the Academic Year 2017-18.

St Patrick’s Mental Health Services held its annual Nurse Graduation Ceremony on Thursday November 15th 2018.

The Bill provides for the establishment of a single statutory entity, Children’s Health Ireland, to provide paediatric services and take over responsibility for the services currently provided by the existing three Dublin children’s hospitals, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital, Crumlin, Temple Street Childrens University Hospital, and the paediatric services at Tallaght University Hospital.

Maternity Services at the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise and Trinity College Dublin today, Monday 22nd October, are delighted to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding which will recognise Portlaoise Hospitalas an affiliated clinical teaching centre for students of the Trinity College School of Nursing & Midwifery.

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is a unique EU initiative that boost innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe since 2008.

RNID and TCD Intellectual Disability Nursing Graduate Karen McLoughlin speaking so passionately about her work. ’I feel it’s a privilege to care for the profoundly disabled’ - Mum-of-two describes working in a residential care home.

We are delighted to announce that the following students have been Highly Commended in the Nursing, Midwifery & Allied Healthcare category of  the 2017 International Undergraduate Awards Programme

This award was developed to recognise the significant contribution of professionals who do not hold appointments with Trinity to the delivery of teaching to our undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Fear of litigation and perceived safety concerns and are among the key factors influencing the decision to perform a caesarean section, according to a major international literature review conducted by researchers at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin.

This ground-breaking exploration will involve Paediatric Intensive Care Units in four international sites to better understand technology initiation, with implications for healthcare, bioethics, education, parenting, policy making, and legal practice

From mini-organs to ultrafast filming: ERC invests in early career researchers

We are delighted to announce a call for the 2018 Preceptor of the Year Award Scheme. This award is designed to recognise and reward clinical staff who have made an outstanding contribution as preceptors to our undergraduate nursing and midwifery students and are creative in their approaches to facilitating student learning during clinical practice experience. The award also reflects the value which we in the School of Nursing and Midwifery place on the importance of clinical practice education and on promoting excellence within preceptorship.

The United Nations World Drug Report 2018 was published on International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 26 June. The report provides a global overview of drug supply and demand, as well as the impact of drugs on peoples health. The report highlights the under-researched area of drug use among older people, and recognises an important study carried out at the School of Nursing and Midwifery. The study is undertaken by PhD student Ms Anne Marie Carew and Professor Catherine Comiskey, which aims to inform current international policy questions relating to ageing and substance misuse.

As part of the Erasmus+ funded cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices programme, a group of researchers, clinicians and volunteers headed to Amersfoort in the Netherlands to discuss best practices in the provision of health and social care for older LGBT people. The project called Being me brings together representatives from four European countries; Ireland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Slovenia, to share ideas about how health and social care can be more responsive to the needs of LGBT people as they get older. This first meeting sought to learn first-hand from older LGBT peoples experience as well as consulting with health and social care staff. For updates and progress follow @beingme_project

A state-of-the-art simulation suite for student nurses has just been opened at the Trinity Centre for Health Sciences on the St James’s Hospital campus.

Dr Elizabeth Newnham from the School of Nursing & Midwifery explains that Hospital practices that interfere with the birth process have become normalised