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Nursing Subject Guide: Guidelines, Directives & Acts

Information on the subjects Nursing and Dental Nursing

Introduction

This page of the Nursing libguide is to provide access for students to the : 

NMBI Guidelines, EU Directives, Nurses Act, 2018 Rules and Statutory Instruments

The Department of Health have links to the guidelines on their website covering areas such as INEWS, IMEWS, MRSA, PEWS, EMEWS, and Clinical Handover and more.

Guidelines Directive Acts

DIRECTIVE 2005/36/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications

Directive 2013/55/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 amending Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications and Regulation (EU) 

European Union Standards for Nursing and Midwifery: Information for Accession Countries

S.I No. 501/2020 - Nurses and Midwives (Education & Training) (Amendment) Rules 2020 

S.I. No. 502/2020 - Nurses and Midwives (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) (Amendment) Rules 2020

S.I. No. 503/2020 - Nurses and Midwives (Register of Nurses and Midwives) (Amendment) Rules 2020

Nurses and Midwives Act 2011

S.I. No. 164/2008 - Recognition of the Professional Qualifications of Nurses and Midwives (Directive 2005/36/Ec) Regulations, 2008

S.I. No. 218/2018 - Nurses and Midwives (Education and Training) Rules 2018

S.I. No. 219/2018 - Nurses and Midwives (Register of Nurses and Midwives) Rules 2018

S.I. No. 220/2018 - Nurses and Midwives (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Rules 2018

S.I. No. 221/2018 - Nurses and Midwives (Registration) Rules 2018

S.I. No. 698/2020 - Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No. 7) Regulations 2020

S.I. No. 217/2018 - Nurses and Midwives (Candidate Register) Rules 2018

Official Policy & Reports

HSE Corporate Plan 2021-2024

HSE National Policies, Procedures, Protocols, Guidelines and Clinical Guidelines: Central Repository

A national framework for recovery in mental health (HSE, 2024)

Writing a Person-centred individual care plan guidance document (HSE, 2021)

Health Service Executive (2021) Model of Care Adults Accessing Talking Therapies while attending Specialist Mental Health Services

National Service Plan 2021

National Framework for Medicines Management in Disability Services

Health Service Executive Primary Care Services Key Performance Indicator Metadata 2020

A Safe Return to Health Services Restoring health and social care services in a COVID environment March 2021

Shaping the future of Intellectual Disability in Ireland

Nursing Home Documentation

Quality nursing and midwifery care

 

Global Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery 2021–2025

State of the world's nursing report 2025

Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health/COP26 Health Programme

Stronger collaboration for an equitable and resilient recovery towards the health-related sustainable development goals: 2021 progress report on the global action plan for healthy lives and well-being for all

WHO Procurement Report 2020

Microbial safety of lipid-based ready-to-use foods for management of moderate acute malnutrition and severe acute malnutrition: second report

UNICEF/WHO/The World Bank Group joint child malnutrition estimates: levels and trends in child malnutrition: key findings of the 2021 edition

WHO Quality assurance policy for the procurement of essential medicines and other health products

From value for money to value-based health services: a twenty-first century shift

Policy paper on traceability of medical products

Tobacco control to improve child health and development: thematic brief

Implementation of post-market surveillance in cervical cancer programmes

Policy brief: Access to assistive technology

World health statistics 2024: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals

The European Health Report 2021

Nursing and Midwifery

OECD Health policy

Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care

OECD Health Policy Studies : Waiting Times for Health Services Next in Line

OECD Health Policy Studies : Health in the 21st Century Putting Data to Work for Stronger Health Systems

Advanced practice nursing in primary care in OECD countries

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