Nursing

Events

IIMHN Symposium 2010 at the School of Nursing

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What's the Point?

Working together to understand suicide and support Life.

Welcome to the School of Nursing at Dublin City University. We are a university-based School of Nursing, providing nursing and multi-disciplinary educational programmes in partnership with a number of health boards, voluntary and private sector organisations. Through our multidisciplinary staff, the School of Nursing has direct expertise in general, mental health and intellectual disability nursing, as well as the biological sciences, psychology and sociology.

This is a very exciting time in the development of nursing practice, research and education in Ireland. The School of Nursing is at the forefront of these developments. We have thriving research and taught post-graduate courses and our new BSc (Hons) Nursing Programme commenced in September 2002. We also have a very active research portfolio and currently lead the first 5-year programme of research in Nursing and Midwifery ever funded in Ireland.

Rapid and often unpredictable change continues to be characteristic of health care provision. Key issues for health care practitioners include technological innovation, complex ethical and legal challenges, new policy initiatives and increased public and professional expectations. These challenges combine to make this one of the most demanding and challenging times in health care. The School of Nursing aims to assist students and health care professionals to meet these challenges through the courses and services it provides.

The BSc in Nursing programme was launched in 2002, with streams in General Nursing, Mental Health Nursing and Intellectual Disability Nursing. The BSc is a four-year programme that prepares students for registration with An Bord Altranais, the Irish nursing board. Find out more.

The School of Nursing currently accredits a a 3-year Graduate Diploma and a 4-year MSc in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy that is provided in partnership with the Institute of Integrative Psychotherapy Studies at Turning point (info@turningpoint.ie).Find out more.

The School of Nursing enjoys a vibrant research community.

The School of Nursing, DCU offers a number of the modules on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on a stand-alone basis. For further programme details on these, please contact the programme co-ordinators. In parallel to this, a set of modules have been devised specifically to support professional development of nurses, many with the support of project grants from the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery.