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Programme profile

Nursing integrates into the fabric of society. The unique role of the nurse involves one to one interaction with patient/clients and their families resulting in great personal job satisfaction. The nurse plays a central role in the health care team. The School of Nursing and Midwifery promotes personal, professional and academic development through the provision of college and practice-based learning. The aim of the programme is to foster the development of knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional values.

Intellectual Disability nurses work closely with people with an intellectual disability and their families throughout their lives as advocates, practitioners, educators and facilitators. As members of an interdisciplinary team of therapists, clinicians, teachers and medical personnel, ID nurses work in a person-centred way to empower clients to achieve their life goals. Students gain wide-ranging experience in one of Ireland

Programme content

Year 1: Professional Learning and IT Skills for Nursing; Interpersonal Skills for Nursing Practice; Fundamentals of Nursing Knowledge and Skills; Health, Public Health Nursing and Health Promotion; Anatomy; Physiology; Developmental Psychology for Health Care; Sociology of Health Care; The Foundation of Contemporary Intellectual Disability Nursing: The Person in His / Her Environment

Year 2: Therapeutic Interpersonal Skills and Social Psychology for Nursing; Nursing Practice in Drug Therapy; Food, Nutrition and Health for Nursing Practice ;Physiology; Intellectual Disability: Assessment of the Specific Needs of People with an Intellectual Disability ;Nursing Individuals with Specific Intellectual Disability; From Childhood to Adolescence: Issues for the Person with an Intellectual Disability; Maternity Care and Child Health Nursing

Year 3: Nursing Professionalism: Trends and Issues; Teaching and Learning for Nursing Practice; Introduction to Research: Principles and Methods; Social Policy and Health Care; Intellectual Disability: Nursing Individuals with Specific Intellectual Disability; Nursing Adults and Older Adults with Intellectual Disability; General Health Needs of People with an Intellectual Disability; Dual Diagnosis in Intellectual Disability

Year 4: Health Promotion for Nursing Practice; Nursing Science; Nursing Research: Principles and Methods; Organisational Management in Nursing; Legal Aspects of Professional Nursing; Nursing Ethics; Multiculturalism, Gender and Social Policy

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